Desc: Crônica da demolição: Directed by Eduardo Ades. With Alex Nicolaeff, Alfredo Luiz Porto de Britto, Antônio Souza Aguiar, Augusto Ivan Pinheiro. At the heart of Rio de Janeiro's downtown, an empty square with a dry fountain and an underground parking. There was located the Monroe Palace, that once housed the Senate, and was mysteriously demolished forty years ago. A history of sabers and lions, military and architects, past and future.