Parque Brig. Eduardo Gomes (Aterro do Flamengo)
Sprawling bayfront park of lawns and trees built entirely on reclaimed land from a demolished hill.
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This guide to Parque Brig. Eduardo Gomes, Rio's Aterro do Flamengo, starts with a stretch of metal wall that Cariocas call the wall of shame, and traces how the whole park exists on rubble from a leveled hill, dumped into Guanabara Bay in the 1950s at the urging of Lota de Macedo Soares. It follows the architect Affonso Reidy and landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx who built her vision of a free public park, and the decades of proposals that chased permission to build on it anyway. Listen for how a 2006 dispute over a picnic grove led into a much larger deal.
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