From the outside, it looks like another historic edifice in Rio de Janeiro´s rundown city centre. Inside, however, is a multi-tiered library so spectacular, so ornate, that stunned visitors feel like they´ve walked into a movie fantasy set. `In Harry Potter we´ve seen libraries like this!` exclaimed Didier Margouet, a 57-year-old French tourist, looking around at the shelves of leather bound books climbing the walls under an octagonal skylight of red, white and blue stained glass. `Yes, like in the movies,` agreed his partner, Laeticia Rau, 50....
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