This multi-tiered library is so ornate that visitors would feel like they've walked into a fantasy movie set. Photos: AFP
From the outside, it looks like another historic edifice in Rio de Janeiro’s rundown city centre. Inside, however, is a multi-tiered library so spectacular, so ornate, that stunned visitors feel like they’ve walked into a movie fantasy set.
“In Harry Potter we’ve seen libraries like this!” exclaimed Didier Margouet, a 57-year-old French tourist, looking around at the shelves of leather bound books climbing the walls under an octagonal skylight of red, white and blue stained glass.
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