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The old port of Rio de Janeiro is considered one of the largest slave ports of the 19^th century. Yet, for decades, this region showed virtually no architectural, spatial or landscape traces of its colonial slave-trading past. With the Porto Maravilha urban revitalization project launched in 2009, the city council sought to develop new economic activities and create a new attractive image for the city’s port area. Although these measures did not lead to a genuine public policy of remembrance, they did give visibility to practices in public space that embody "living memories". These practices are artistic, carnivalesque or ritualistic, and contribute to the development of narratives and imaginaries that perform the memory of urban space. Thus, the question is how the spatial anchoring of these practices contributes bringing together the "right to memory" and the "right to the city".