Parque Lage (Lage Park), a haven of peace in the Marvelous City at the foot of the Corcovado Mountain where is located the monument of Christ the Redeemer.
Old sugar mill at the time of Colonial Brazil, with a total area of 9,3 hectares, Parque Lage was listed by the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN), on June 14, 1957, as a historical and cultural heritage of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
In 1859 the property was bought by the businessman Henrique Lage. A lover of the arts, he falls in love and marries Italian lyric singer Gabriela Besanzoni. To please the artist, orders to build a perfect replica of a Roman “palazzo”.
The Palacete, on one floor above a raised basement, develops around a central courtyard with a swimming pool in the center. It was designed the atrium fashion of a Roman house.
The lateral and frontal accesses are remarkable. Its ornamentation, of Italian influence, is composed of marbles and tiles and the decorative paintings of his salons were signed by Salvador Paylos Sabaté, Who covered in gold the stars that decorate the wall and ceiling of Besanzoni’s bedroom.
