Square and industrial memory
Praça Brasil
Praça Brasil, in Vila Santa Cecília in Volta Redonda, is part of the landscape of the worker city linked to the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional.
Rio de Janeiro · Brazil
Volta Redonda
In the destination Vale do Café.
In the photo: Praça Brasil.
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The city
What to expect from Volta Redonda.
Volta Redonda is an industrial city formed around the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional and its worker neighborhoods. Praça Brasil and the Memorial IX de Novembro, in Vila Santa Cecília, present the memory of labor and social conflicts. The Igreja de Santa Cecília and the chimney of the former mill add religious references and to a period prior to the steel industry.
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The local experience
What to see in Volta Redonda
Memory of the workers
Memorial IX de Novembro
The Memorial IX de Novembro, in Volta Redonda, commemorates William Fernandes Leite, Valmir Freitas Monteiro, and Carlos Augusto Barroso, who died during the 1988 strike.
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Historic heritage
Chaminé do Antigo Engenho da Fazenda Santa Cecília
The chimney of the former mill of Fazenda Santa Cecília preserves a reference to the rural use of the territory of Volta Redonda, prior to the consolidation of the steel city.
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Religious heritage
Igreja de Santa Cecília
The Igreja de Santa Cecília is part of the history of Vila Santa Cecília in Volta Redonda.
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Brazilian routes
Volta Redonda is part of the Vale do Café
A route through 14 municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, among historic farms, museums, the memory of the railways and the heritage of the cities of Médio Paraíba.
