The Casa da Cultura was originally a detention center built in the 1860s. It was a prison from the 1860s to 1973, when it was deactivated and the prisoners were transferred to Itamaraca Agricultural Prison. Francisco Brennand (mentioned in the last post) gave the idea to turn the prison into a trading center of culture and art. The designer for the new and improved center, however, was Lina Bo Bardi, an architect and designer. The prison was then reopened as the Casa da Cultura in 1976.
This center of commerce has a variety of different stores, selling things like clothes, art, crystals, food, etc... The actual stores are inside the old prison cells and every prison cell is a different store. To me, this place represents a lot of what defines Brazil as a country: being able to turn something old and depressing into something beautiful and fun where people can go every day.
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