In 1901, Machado de Assis organized a series of lunches and gatherings that would bring together a selection of intellectuals and academics in Laranjeiras. He himself named the group suggestively by "Panelinha".

Squeezed between the two hills of Senado and Santo Antônio, which had been demolished, Rua do Senado suffered the consequences of the devastation for many years.

When Guanabara Bay was virgin to caravels and the biggest visitors to its waters were whales and the indigenous people were roaming freely among islands, coves and the tropical forest that bordered it, there was an abundance of oysters.

Whether for authorities or athletes, some of the events that took place in Laranjeiras, at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th brought real banquets. French was the language that dominated menus at the time.

In the 16th century, the fresh water of the Rio Carioca was an indigenous monopoly and anyone who tried to supply their boat without some barter was given a “warm” welcome with arrows. The point where boats docked and collected them was called "sailors' watering hole".

Laranjeiras began as a path that followed the course of the Carioca River. It was a place of rustic farms, with vegetables, manioc fields, pig and poultry farming, coffee plantations, banana trees and other orchards, to supply the city. It was the trees, however, planted by the first sesmeiros