Castelo, Rio de Janeiro

Castelo is a region in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

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, but not officially recognized as a neighborhood, and officially forming part of the

Centro Centro may refer to: Places Brazil *Centro, Santa Maria, a neighborhood in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Centro, Porto Alegre, a neighborhood of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil *Centro (Duque de Caxias), a neighborhood of Duq ...

neighborhood. It is generally considered to be located in the region between

Avenida Rio Branco Rio Branco Avenue (), formerly Avenida Central, is a major road in downtown Rio de Janeiro. It was built as the leading brand of the urban reform carried out by the mayor Pereira Passos in early 20th century. It is one of the main thoroughfares o ...

, the Santos Dumont Airport and

Praça Quinze de Novembro The Praça XV de Novembro, ( en, 15 November Square) is a public square in the Centro section of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Location The square is located in the historical centre of Rio de Janeiro and is flanked by the Tiradentes Palace ...

. The area derives its name from the former Morro do Castelo in that location, which was demolished by water jets in the 1920s. As most of the buildings in the area were designed and built in the first half of the twentieth century, after the demolition of Morro do Castelo (''Castle Hill'') in 1921, the region became home to a large collection of

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unit ...

buildings. Art Deco was the prevalent architecture style in Rio de Janeiro at that time. Geography of Rio de Janeiro (city) {{RiodeJaneiro-geo-stub