Through the image of House of Portugal (a copy of Portuguese sailing ships used during colonial navigations) anchored in front of Porto Maravilha, during 2016 Olympic Games, this thesis intends to reflect upon the ways colonial violence is thought of, embraced and ignored temporally and spatially by Brazilian contemporary society. For such, this research departs from this specific image to a broader analysis of Porto Maravilha project, focusing on spaces built and/or renewed for the Olympics and walking tours taken around the port zone. The thesis works with the contrast of a disciplinary conception of space (Porto Maravilha) and the idea of space-palimpsest, represented by the port zone itself and where different histories overlap, find points of connection and continuities and also break into each other. The hypothesis to be investigated is that the condition of possibility to think about a future of progress, in the context of Porto Maravilha, would be the notion of reconciliation between Rio de Janeiro and its violent past, and therefore the reestablishment of a supposed harmony seen as proper to the city and to Brazilians in general. Such narrative, in turn, directly entails the notion that what founds Brazil is a harmonic colonial encounter between different races and cultures.