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Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra
Built in 1698, Bahia’s oldest fort is more commonly called the Farol da Barra for the lighthouse (South America’s oldest) within its walls. In addition to having superb views, the fort houses an excellent nautical museum , with relics and displays from the days of Portuguese seafar
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Edifício Copan
Copan was designed by late modernist master Oscar Niemeyer. The building’s serpentine facade and narrow brises soleil (permanent sunshades) have become a symbol of the city. You can visit its snaking, sloping ground-floor shopping arcade and hip restaurants, but the upper floors ar
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As Misões
As Misões is a mildly interesting complex overlooking the mouth of Lago de Tefé and the main channel of the Rio Solimões. Founded in 1897, it has a well-kept garden, huge decaying church, and a cemetery full of former missionaries. The main building was a church-run vocational scho
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Praça XV (Quinze) de Novembro
The first residents on this historic site were Carmelite fathers who built a convent here in 1590. It later came under the property of the Portuguese crown and became Largo do Paço, which surrounded Paço Imperial, the royal palace. The square was later renamed Praça XV (Quinze) de
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Instituto Butantan
Highly respected for its groundbreaking biomedical research, this institute is best known as a venom farm. Researchers milk a total of tens of thousands of snakes of their poison, which is used to make antidotes to snake and spider bites, as well as in research for other medicines.
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Centro Cultural Palácio Rio Negro
The former home of eccentric German rubber baron Waldemar Scholz, the Centro Cultural Palácio Rio Negro was built in the early 1900s, and served for many years as the state capital and governors residence. Converted into a cultural center in 1997, it now hosts temporary art exhibit
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Parque Nacional da Serra Geral
Parque Nacional da Serra Geral, 23km from Cambará do Sul, contains canyons that rival Itaimbezinho. The Cânion da Fortaleza is an 8km stretch of escarpment with 900m drops. A gently inclining Trilha do Mirante leads about 7km to the edge of the canyon, yielding incredible views of
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Parque Estadual da Serra dos Pirineus
Pireneus, 18km northeast of town, is the Brazilian form of the word ‘Pyrenees’ and the top spot in the state for bouldering and mountain climbing. There are waterfalls and interesting rock formations to see along the way, some dating back to Gondwanaland. You’ll need an accredited
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Planetário
Gáveas stellar attraction, the Planetário features a museum, a praça dos telescópios (telescopes square) and a couple of state-of-the-art operating cúpulas (domes), each capable of projecting more than 6000 stars onto its walls. Forty-minute sessions in the domes take place on week
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GaleRio
Set in a grand 19th-century mansion on busy São Clemente, GaleRio is a showcase of cutting-edge urban street art. You’ll find a changing array of paintings, installations, sculptures and repurposed objects (like stop signs turned into panoramic backdrops or payphone booths transfor
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Forte dos Reis Magos
The fort that got Natal started in 1598 still stands in its original five-pointed star shape on the reef at the tip of the peninsula at the north end of town. The views of the city, the Ponte Nova and the dunes across the Rio Potengi are fantastic. The fort contains a chapel, a wel
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Vale do Amanhecer
About 45km east of Brasília, near the satellite city of Planaltina, you’ll find the Vale do Amanhecer, founded in 1959 by a clairvoyant, Tia Neiva. The valley is actually a small town where you can see (or take part in) Egyptian, Greek, Aztec, Indian, Gypsy, Inca, Trojan and Afro-B
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Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário e São Benedito
Sadly, a fire in 1967 destroyed much of the elaborate interior of this historic church, leaving only the unadorned walls that date back to the early 1700s. Dedicated to our Lady of the Rosary as well as the black St Benedict, the church has been an important icon for Afro-Brazilian
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Museu do Seringal Vila Paraíso
Located on the grounds of a former rubber-baron estate, this unique museum includes tours of the grand historic townhouse, a replica rubber-tapper shack and smokehouse, and a leafy trail showing how rubber trees are tapped. Sounds gimmicky, but is intriguing. Consider combining it
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Museu do Bonde
The tiny one-room Tram Museum at the depot close to Largo do Guimarães offers a history of Rios tramways since 1865 – when the trams were pulled by donkeys. A few photographs, trip-recorders and conductor uniforms are just about the only objects documenting their legacy. Uplifting
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Museu do Amanhã
Designed by famed Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, this beautifully conceived science museum has interactive exhibitions on outer space, Earth and its biodiversity, humans (and our impact on the world), and the major global trends and challenges that lie in the future. In all
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Museu Cais do Sertão
Inaugurated in 2014, this bold new museum highlights the culture of the sertão (the interior of Pernambuco state), especially as it relates to the godfather of forró music, Luiz Gonzaga , who was a major player not only in bringing the music of the region to national prominence but
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Museu do Índio
Sandwiched between two churches and run by Salesian nuns, the Museu do Índio displays artwork, musical instruments, fishing and hunting tools and ritual objects of indigenous groups from mostly Amazonas and Pará states. The collection is large and quite good, but the displays are a
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Belterra
Henry Ford briefly moved his Fordlândia operations here in the 1940s and this site, 40km from Santarém, makes for an easy day trip. Theres a small museum of Ford-era photos and artifacts, a small grove of rubber trees and several green and white buildings, built for Ford managers;
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Instituto Ricardo Brennand
The scenic Instituto, located in Várzea, 11km west of central Recife, contains a massive collection of European and Brazilian art, swords, armor and historical artifacts, all set in a fake medieval castle on lovely grounds. Its best reached by taxi from Boa Viagem (R$200 or so) in
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