PALÁCIO TIRADENTES FIEL À DEMOCRACIA - Assembléia ...

REPUBLICAN HISTORY
HAS HIS HOUSE RESTORED.
CARLOS EDUARDO SARMENTO -
HISTORIOGRAPHER.
creation of the Brazilian State also follows a teleological
trail and without open conflicts. Significant events
and characters follow without any reference to possible
ruptures, as if the seeds of the present were in a process
of germination from the beginning of the activity of
indoctrination of the heathens. At the top of the cupola,
light penetrates this environment through the
colored filters of a magnificent stained glass window
representative of the configuration of the skies of the
city of Rio de Janeiro on the night of the proclamation
of the republic. The sense of such composition is evident:
over the seats of the elected representatives,
responsible for creating the laws that would rule over
the functioning of the political system, should hover
the supreme lighting of the republican ideal, of a
Republic built in a gradual and consensual manner. A
model of State which, founded on the experienced of
50
15. Estátua de Tiradentes executada
por Francisco de Andrade, localizada à
frente do Palácio.
15. Tiradentes Statue performed by
Francisco de Andrade, located in front
of the Palace.
the past, sought to build the future from the sum of the
multiple tendencies that interact in the panorama of
Brazilian society.
The decision to restore the Tiradentes Palace building,
of endowing it with cultural equipment and didactic
attractions, and offer it to the free access of the population
was one of the most wholesome initiatives assumed
by the fluminense state parliamentarians. In this manner,
a process of institutional and political refinement
of the Legislative Assembly was crowned, causing the
historical building to make justice to the epithet of the
peoples’ house. And may the light that bathes the plenary
room, this wholesome and republican light,
always be admired and understood by all citizens, now,
at last, admitted with all pomp and circumstance into
this space that should have always been theirs.
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