Solar da Imperatriz - History is not respected !!! Solar Empress was built in 1750 to host the Great House of imperial Monkey Farm. The history of the area dates back to a past even older. Early in the colonization the Portuguese government divided the territory of Rio de Janeiro in Sesmarias with one of its goals develop a culture of cane sugar. In 1575 one of these allotments was donated to Antonio Salema and named Ingenio DEl King. At that time still used indigenous labor, which was quickly replaced by the African. In 1578 Salema returned to Portugal and the Mill was disabled until 1596 when it was leased by Diogo Soares de Amorim. In 1609 he also returned to Portugal and only in 1660 Rodrigo de Freitas de Mello and Castro bought the Mill, which was kept in the possession of his family for over 140 years. With the coming of the Portuguese Court to Brazil in 1808 the Mill was expropriated for the construction of a Gunpowder Factory. On the outskirts of the Solar settled service roads as blacksmiths, stables, carpentry, housing, and the slave quarters and maroon sites springs or existing. In 1875, the building housed the Agricultural Asylum Imperial Institute of Agriculture to form the orphans crafts described above: blacksmiths, carpenters, etc. The asylum was turned off with the proclamation of the Republic. In 1909, went on to host the Forest Museum and, in 1927, one Botany Lab. In 1973, the Solar name of the Empress was officially recognized when the Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN) fell the area to increase the Institute Botanical Garden. The building was restored and joined the campus IJB in the 2000s During the restoration works became the old slave quarters (in the basement of Solar) in the coffee shop and went out important documents of slavery in the region. More traditional inhabitants of the Garden count there were chains and sticks macaw in the basement that were destroyed. But fortunately this record still attests the social memory. The cafeteria, in turn, is not running. Source: Garden Museum Link to original article: museudohorto.org.br/Solar_da_Imperatriz?id=1113
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:32:02 +0000
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