The present work studies the modernist movement in Rio de Janeiro from the magazine A Revista, which was diffused between the years of 1919 to 1923 and it represented the fluminenses` intellectual interests on distinguishing the relevance of their modernism in the debates which thought the nation in the beginning of the 20th century. A Revista encouraged an intense speech which added value to modernity as fundamental component to the progress and therefore to emphasize the Rio de Janeiro state. This reasoning came from the former capital city, Niterói, and it was spread over the other villages. To this task, the thinkers, who managed this magazine, thought about education, science, urban reforms, progress and civism, and it detached the fluminenses in the Brazilian federation frame specially on the verge of completing one hundred years of independence. In this sense, the celebrations of the centennials, not only of the country (1922), but the foundation of Niterói (1919) as well, were special moments to create a peculiar memory to Rio de Janeiro state. The fluminense modernism provoked many thoughts which were used by intellectuals as a tool to change the society, in order to redefine the fluminense cultural identity in the national scenery.