The first legend that is known about Copacabana account that two whales had appeared on the beach in late August 1858. Between 22 and 23 of that year, hundreds of people - Emperor Pedro II and his entourage at the front - they went to see them. The richest of coaches followed, pulled the horse, and took snacks and tents to accommodate. Others were on horseback or on foot. The whales were gone, yet who stood on the shore a lot of fun, a picnic that lasted three days and three nights, starting around the dating of the population of Rio de Janeiro beach with that inhospitable and unhealthy.
Recommendation of the Day: The book "coachmen and Carroceiros," Ana Maria da Silva Moura , ed.Hucitec, which deals with the life and work of the carters and coachmen, in the late nineteenth century, they traveled to Rio de Janeiro haul, serving the Trading Companies. In a world of masters and slaves, the author reveals the history of free men and the poor who were part of the collective construction of a city that has modernized.
