Praia vermelha
Crystal-flecked red-sand cove beneath Sugarloaf, once the site of a bombed-out army barracks.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Praia Vermelha in Rio de Janeiro opens before dawn on November 27, 1935, when gunfire woke the city on the sand where you're standing. It traces the building that once stood here, from a military academy where a professor's republican teaching helped topple the empire, to the barracks where a captain and a leftist group rallied over a thousand soldiers into revolt. Listen for how the site's name later changed, and look up toward the cable car gliding to Sugarloaf, running since 1912, well before that night.
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