Ilha Fiscal

Coordinates: 22°54′S 43°10′W / 22.900°S 43.167°W / -22.900; -43.167
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Ilha Fiscal with the Rio–Niterói Bridge and Serra dos Órgãos National Park further on in the background.

Ilha Fiscal, or Fiscal Island, is an

southeastern Brazil
.

Originally named by Europeans as Rat Island (

Neo-Gothic palace built under Pedro II,[a] which occupies most of the island. The island became famous as the site of the famous Fiscal Island Ball (Portuguese: Baile da Ilha Fiscal), the last royal ball of the Empire before the coup d'état that proclaimed the Republic in November 1889.[1]

History

The New York Times' Marlise Simons considers the former-Customs House a "preposterous neo-Gothic edifice of green turrets."[2]

During the Fiscal Island Ball (Portuguese: Baile da Ilha Fiscal), held on 9 November 1889[b] and considered "the last ball of the Empire," Afonso Celso, Viscount of Ouro Preto, Deodato Cesino Vilella dos Santos, João da Costa Lima e Castro [pt] and Saldanha da Gama were members of the reception committee.[3] The ball was in honor of a visiting Chilean delegation[4] of naval men,[5] with an alleged attendance of six thousand guests.[4] An often repeated legend states that after the ball 8 bodices, 17 silk pillows, 3 corsets, 17 garters and 9 epaulets were found on the island.[2]

During the Revolt of the Lash, on 23 November 1910, the Brazilian battleship São Paulo was located off the island and headed out of the bay unscathed.[6] Aurélio de Figueiredo [pt] painted The Last Dance of Ilha Fiscal (Portuguese: O Último baile da Ilha Fiscal), based on the 1889 ball, in 1905.[7] Since 1914, the Navy's Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation (Portuguese: Diretoria de Hidrografia e Navegação) has been based on Ilha Fiscal. After the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo, the Directorate was the second institution in Brazil to carry out oceanographic research.[8] Monica Hirst argumented before the meeting that resulted in the 1994 Protocol of Ouro Preto that it should not be compared to the Ilha Fiscal Ball.[9] In 2002, businessman Alexandre Accioly celebrated his 40th birthday at Ilha Fiscal.[10] As part of the 2005 Rio Fashion Week, designer Clara Vasconcelos showcased the Tessuti 2006 summer collection runway show held on a runway with 150 seat capacity in the form of an "A".[11][12][13] During the Mensalão scandal, presidential advisor Ricardo Kotscho made a public statement which Folha de S.Paulo journalist Clóvis Rossi [pt] compared to the infamous ball, "where the court danced while the monarchy collapsed."[14]

Ilha Fiscal now hosts a museum of cultural history housed in the that is maintained by the Navy of Brazil. Boat and land tours depart the nearby Navy Cultural Center [pt] and travel to and around Ilha Fiscal.[1]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Erroneously stated as Pedro I by John Waggoner.
  2. ^ For his part, Jeffrey David Needell erroneously states 19 October as the date of the event.

References

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    from the original on 24 May 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  3. ^ Needell, Jeffrey David (1982). "Chapter III High Society and the Salon". The Origins of the Carioca Belle Epoque: The Emergence of the Elite Culture and Society of Turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro. Stanford University. pp. 197 (239). Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via ProQuest.
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    University of Illinois at Chicago. pp. 303 (313). Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via ProQuest
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  5. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. pp. 147 (152). Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via ProQuest
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  6. ISBN 9780804783699. Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via ProQuest
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  7. ^ Williams, Daryle (1995). Making Brazil modern: Political culture and cultural politics under Getulio Vargas, 1930-1945. Stanford University. pp. 96 (111). Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via ProQuest.
  8. ^ Sedrez, Lise Fernanda (2005). "To Protect and Defend: The Navy". 'The bay of all beauties': State and environment in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1875–1975. Stanford University. pp. 139 (155). Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via ProQuest.
  9. ^ Hirst, Monica (15 December 2004). "Opiniao- O impasse Brasil-Argentina" [Opinion- The Brazil-Argentina impasse]. Valor Econômico - Globo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via ProQuest.
  10. ^ Franco, Carlos (11 April 2005). "Empresarios investem em novos projetos" [Entrepreneurs Invest in New Projects]. Jornal do Comércio (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via ProQuest.
  11. ^ "Restaurante do Eike" [Eike's Restaurant]. O Globo (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro. 8 June 2005. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via ProQuest.
  12. ^ "Tudo novo de novo" [Everything New Again]. O Globo (in Portuguese). 11 June 2005. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via ProQuest.
  13. ^ "Fashion Rio: Evento abriga anos 70 e universo circense" [Fashion Rio: Event hosts the 70s and the circus universe]. Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). 16 June 2005. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via ProQuest.
  14. ^ Rossi, Clóvis (16 June 2005). "Clóvis Rossi: Ilha Fiscal, de novo?" [Clóvis Rossi: Ilha Fiscal, Again?]. Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 11 November 2021 – via ProQuest.

External links

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