The closing ceremony of the Rio Paralympic Games took place in front of 45,000 spectators at the Maracana stadium on Sunday.
It brought Brazil's run of hosting mega-sports events to an end after starting with the Confederations Cup in 2013, through to the 2014 World Cup and the Rio Olympics last month.
The ceremony was a celebration of the Games, with performances from singers and dancers as well as a show of fireworks.
Tributes were also paid to Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad, who died following a crash in the men's C4/C5 road race on Saturday.
There was a sombre atmosphere in the air at the closing ceremony but also one of unity. Iran finished the Paralympics with a sitting volleyball gold which was dedicated to Golbarnezhad.
Looking ahead to the next Games in 2020, International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven passed the Paralympic flag between the mayor of Rio and governor of Tokyo, which will be the next host city.
At one point, the XV Paralympics were not even going to have a closing ceremony.
Such were the swingeing cuts necessary after Paralympic funds were used as contingency for the Olympics that the Rio 2016 organising committee considered not having a final extravaganza for the Paralympics but were fortunately persuaded otherwise.
Brazil belatedly backed a Games which a month earlier had been mired in the worst build-up in the Paralympics' 56-year history.
However, Rio's residents turned out in vast numbers. More than 2.1 million tickets were sold, second only to London 2012, and the first Saturday on the Paralympic Park saw 167,000 spectators attend - more than at any point during the Olympics.
ParalympicsGB finished second on the medal table to China, winning 64 gold medals and 147 in all over 11 days of competition.
Kadeena Cox was Great Britain's flag bearer for Sunday's closing ceremony. She landed four medals, two of them gold, at her maiden Games, two years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
The 25-year-old from Leeds became the first Briton in 28 years to win medals in two sports at one Games and the first in 32 years to claim gold medals in two sports at the same Paralympics.
Cox won the C4/C5 500 metres time-trial in the velodrome and the T38 400m on the running track. She set world records in both events. She persuaded British Cycling and British Athletics to allow her to double up, proving her sceptical coaches wrong, and it paid dividends.
"I wasn't disabled in London, but I watched the Paralympics," Cox said. "When I was diagnosed with my condition, I sat in my hospital bed and decided I wanted to go to Rio. That was what I was going to do.
"To be here and to have won medals and to do it in the fashion that I've done... it is just amazing. When I first set out, the journey was just about me and just a girl that wanted to go to the Paralympics.
"And then it became the journey of wanting to win medals, but not for me, for other people. Giving other people someone to look at, someone that can empower them who has overcome setbacks, disabilities, illnesses.
"You can make the most of these things. That's why I wanted to be here and do something different and push the boundaries. Show people what we're able to do, rather than what we're not able to do.
"That's why it's really special. I got the medals, but being able to spread a message is way more important than the medals. Yes, we have disabilities, but it's not stopping us from being totally amazing. We can show the world how amazing we are."