COPACABANA FOOTWEAR

Anyone who has visited Praça do Rocio, in Lisbon, certainly remembered the boardwalk of Copacabana Beach. The association is immediate, since the layout in Portuguese stones is the same in both places. In Portugal, the drawing symbolizes the meeting of the Tagus with the ocean. In Rio, it represents the waves of the sea. The idea of honoring our colonizers was then Mayor Paul de Frontin, at the beginning of the last century. It was he who chose the route, known as "Mar Largo", to illustrate the sidewalk of the avenue that was being enlarged. I could not imagine that it would create the main symbol of the neighborhood - and also the most famous beach in the world.

In the 1970s, the extension of Av. Atlântica took place and the sidewalk strip won the designs of the architect Burle Marx.