Glória (meaning ''Glory'' in English) is a

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in the city of

Porto Alegre Porto Alegre (, , Brazilian ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of 1,488,252 inhabitants (2020) makes it the twelfth most populous city in the country and the center of Brazil's fif ...

, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, in

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. It was created by Law 2022 from December 7, 1959, but had its limits modified by Law 2681 from December 21, 1963. The ''arraial'' (

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) of Glória was created in the 19th century, when the Silveira Nunes family donated to the prefecture a big property, in which two parallel roads were constructed - today Carlos Barbosa and Oscar Pereira avenues. The neighbourhood name comes from a lady called Maria da Glória, married to a

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whose big house was a landmark in the region. In 1915, the ''Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Glória'' was built. Glória is home to two private schools of Porto Alegre, the Marista Assunção and Nossa Senhora da Glória schools.

Notable residents

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References

External links

Porto Alegre City Homepage
Neighbourhoods in Porto Alegre {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub