From the outside, it looks like another historic edifice in Rio's rundown city center. Inside, however, is a multi-tiered library so spectacular, so ornate, that stunned visitors feel like they've walked into a movie fantasy set. "In 'Harry Potter' we've seen libraries like this!" exclaimed Didier Margouet, a 57-year-old French tourist, looking around at the shelves of leather bound books climbing the walls under an octagonal skylight of red, white and blue stained glass. "Yes, like in the movies," agreed his partner, Laeticia Rau, 50. The Royal Portuguese Reading Room --- the Real Gabinete Portugues de Leitura in Portuguese--- was built in the late 19th century under the st...
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