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Catedral Metropolitana de Sao Sebastiao
A landmark that earns the queue · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photo: Rjcastillo · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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The experience
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Sebastian, completed in 1979, is a Modernist cone rising about 75 metres in central Rio. Designed by Edgar Fonseca, its concrete-clad conical form seats around 20,000 people. Inside, four straight stained-glass windows soar from floor to ceiling toward a cross-shaped skylight, flooding the vast open nave with coloured light.
Stand beneath four 60-metre stained-glass ribbons inside Rio's striking Modernist concrete cone.
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Where it is
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Centro. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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