Church
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Candelária
Praça Pio X, s/n - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 20040-020
Domed baroque church built over two centuries from a shipwrecked captain's storm-time vow.
This guide to the Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Candelária in Rio opens with a storm at sea around 1609, when Antônio Martins Palma and Leonor Gonçalves promised heaven a church in exchange for safe harbor. It follows how their small vow chapel grew for over two centuries, rebuilt in 1775 by military engineer Francisco João Roscio into a cross-shaped church too big for its era, and rushed open in 1811 for a prince regent's arrival. Look up at the dome and its ring of carved figures as you listen.
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