Cinelândia Station ( pt, Estação Cinelândia) is a station on the

Rio de Janeiro Metro The Rio de Janeiro Metro ( pt, MetrôRio, ), commonly referred to as just the ''Metrô'' () is a rapid transit network that serves the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Metrô was inaugurated on 5 March 1979, and consisted of five stations op ...

that services the Praça Marechal Floriano (commonly known as Cinelândia) public square in the

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neighborhood of

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. In 1979, the Cinelândia station was opened as one of the first five stations of the then-new metro network. The metro station is located on the site of the former Monroe Palace, which served as home to the Brazilian Congress from 1914 to 1920, and later as home to the

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from the 1925 to 1960. This palace was demolished in 1976, ostensibly in order to build the metro station.

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Metrô Rio stations Railway stations opened in 1979 {{SouthAm-metro-stub