![]() Artememoria adapted the 34 sites located in the center zone of Rio de Janeiro, many of which relate to artistic and cultural resistance, developing an interactive, English-language map. A world-famous tourist destination, Rio de Janeiro is filled with invisible traces of a recent oppressive dictatorship – which has as its legacy state violence in the present. It is an extremely important public memory initiative, one relevant for an international audience as well as a local one. The book Lugares de Memória (Sites of Memory) brings together research on 101 places in the state of Rio de Janeiro that were stage to the repressive actions of the military dictatorship and to resistance movements. ![]() Imbuing places with memories of the past is essential to learning about what the military regime meant for the experience of people of different social groups going about their everyday lives. Visit them and experience history as something real and material, something that leaves its scars in territory. Identify the places where dictatorship violence took place and where resistance pushed back. ![]()
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