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One of the main squares in Porto Alegre downtown. It is surrounded by several important buildings, like the Metropolitan Cathedral, Sâo Pedro Theater, Piratini Palace, Justice Palace and Farroupilha Palace.
A Praça da Matriz de Porto Alegre, cujo nome oficial é Praça Marechal Deodoro, está localizada no cor...
Theatro São Pedro é um teatro brasileiro localizado na cidade de Porto Alegre, no Rio Grande do Sul. ...
The square Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca has existed since the dawn of the capital, in 1773, when it wa...
The oldest theater in town, was built in 1858, with capacity for 700 people at a time when the city h...
Theatro São Pedro é um teatro brasileiro localizado na cidade de Porto Alegre, no Rio Grande do Sul. ...
Piratini Palace - Seat of the Government of Rio Grande do Sul - opened in 1921, Louis XVI style. Insi...
The Business Centre Mostardeiro was designed based on the pursuit of quality of life, integrating the...
The Viaduct Otavio Rocha is an important engineering work in Porto Alegre is located in the city cent...
Viaduto sobre a Avenida Borges de Medeiros. Centro de Porto Alegre - RS, Brasil. Viaduto Otávio Rocha...
Here's your soundtrack. Okay, maybe they're not exactly brazillian but their music is awesome and their live shows legendary.
Now, Brazil covers almost half of South America and its Amazon rainforest is the world's largest jungle... which is rapidly getting cut down. The country is basically one giant botanical garden with some bangin' cities on its edges.
Brazil was colonized in 1808 by the royal court of Portugal, which was fleeing Napolean's troops. They didn't stay long, and Brazil won its independence in 1822.
Its biggest city, Sao Paulo, is the financial hub of South America. Brazil is the "b" in BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. These four were labeled the world's fastest developing large economies in the year 2001.
Brazil is known for three things: amazingly beautiful women, carnival, and Pele -- King of Football, Athlete of the Century, football ambassador of the world and a declared national treasure.
Brazillians can tell foreigners a mile away, by the way their hips move. Samba is built into the soul of brazil and carnival is when it bursts out into twenty-four hour undying explosions of sound on every street.
This picture of mask diving at the Taipus reefs makes me shed hot and salty tears all over my calendar, which is set on "January" right now.
Text by Steve Smith.
