An 1820s neoclassical solar on the PUC-Rio campus.
Landmark buildingThe Solar Grandjean de Montigny is the oldest significant building in Gávea — a two-story neoclassical country house from the 1820s, with a columned veranda and monumental entrance stair, set in gardens inside the PUC-Rio campus on Rua Marquês de São Vicente. It now operates as the university's museum and cultural center, open to visitors.
For the neighborhood it is an anchor: a reminder that Gávea was farmland and chácaras long before the Jockey Club, PUC and the residential streets arrived around it.
Address: Rua Marquês de São Vicente 225 (PUC-Rio campus), Gávea, Rio de Janeiro
Auguste-Henri-Victor Grandjean de Montigny arrived in Brazil in 1816 with the French Artistic Mission, invited by Dom João VI, and became the architect who introduced academic neoclassicism to Rio. He built this house as his own residence around 1823 and lived in it until his death in 1850.
The solar was listed by IPHAN, Brazil's national heritage institute, in 1938 — one of the early federal protections in Rio — and was later absorbed into the PUC-Rio campus, which restored it and runs it as an exhibition space.
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