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Igreja de NS do Carmo
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Igreja da Sé
Church in Fortaleza.
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Castelo do Garcia d’Ávila
Dating from 1552, the Castelo was the first great Portuguese edifice in Brazil. Desperate to colonize, the king of Portugal granted lands to merchants, soldiers and aristocrats; a farmer named Garcia d’Ávila, endowed with this tract of land, chose this oceanview plot for his home.
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Igreja de Santa Efigênia dos Pretos
Financed by gold from Chico-Rei’s mine and built by the slave community, this mid-18th-century church honors Santa Efigênia, princess of Nubia. The exterior image of NS do Rosário is by Aleijadinho. Slaves legendarily contributed to the church coffers by washing their gold-flaked h
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Casa das Onze Janelas
Once the home of a sugar baron, then a military hospital, the Casa das Onze Janelas now houses an excellent art gallery and one of Belém’s finest restaurants, Boteco das Onze. Galleries on the first and second floor contain an intriguing mix of classical and modern paintings and dr
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Centro Cultural Dannemann
In São Félix, this riverfront cultural center has modern art displayed throughout a converted warehouse. In a large room in the rear of the building, heavy with the rich smell of tobacco, women dressed in white with flowered head wraps sit at antique wooden tables rolling charutos
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Forte do Presépio
The city of Belém was founded in 1616 with the construction of this imposing fort, which was intended to protect Portuguese interests upriver against incursions by the French and Dutch. Today it houses a small but excellent museum, primarily about Pará’s indigenous communities (dis
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Largo das Neves
A slice of village life in the city, this small plaza is one of Santa Teresas most picturesque little squares. While empty by day, at night the bars surrounding the square come alive, with revelers crowding the walkways. At times, Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) bands perform to a
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Museu do Padre Toledo
Dedicated to 18th-century Brazilian priest and revolutionary hero Padre Toledo, this recently renovated museum occupies the 18-room house where Padre Toledo himself once lived and where the Inconfidentes first met. The collection features regional antiques and documents from the 18
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Museo do Círio
The many idiosyncrasies of Belém’s famous religious festival, the Círio de Nazaré, are explained in this handsome museum, from the discovery of a tiny statue of Mary in a riverbank in 1700, to the story behind the 400m, 450kg rope thats now such an integral part of the procession,
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Fazenda do Secretário
In its heyday, this sprawling 19th-century fazenda was home to half a million coffee plants. Today visitors can tour the neoclassical mansion, the finest of its kind in Brazil, with a grand European staircase, chapel and trompe-loeil paintings, and stroll the vast gardens, dotted w
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Museu Histórico do Amapa ‘Joaquim Caetano da Silva’
The new Museu Histórico do Amapa ‘Joaquim Caetano da Silva’ , near Praça Veigal Cabral, covers various aspects and eras of Amapá’s history. The most interesting displays describe archaeological work done here, including Emílio Goeldi’s discovery of 14th-century clay urns in the for
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Campo de Santana
Campo de Santana is a pleasant green space that, on September 7, 1822, was the scene of the proclamation of Brazils independence from Portugal by Emperor Dom Pedro I of Portugal. The landscaped park with an artificial lake and swans is a fine place for a respite from the chaotic st
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Praça da Sé
The slick, L-shaped Praça da Sé has cool fountains and the fenced-off ruins of the foundations of its namesake church. At the far end of the plaza, the 1874 funicular railway Plano Inclinado Gonçalves used to send 30-passenger cars between Cidade Alta and Cidade Baixa on terrifying
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Palácio Antonio Lemos & MABE
This rubber-boom palace served as city hall in the late 1800s, and its 2nd floor now houses the Museu de Arte de Belém. The museum has gorgeous wood floors – cloth slippers are provided – and a fine collection of statuettes, antiques and Brazilian 20th-century paintings, such as Th
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Mercado Municipal Adolfo Lisboa
Manaus historic city market was inaugurated in 1882, a downscaled replica of Pariss famed Les Halles market. Safe and bustling, the central building has mostly handicraft shops, wares ranging from predictible kitsch to high quality. A side building houses a working fish market--vis
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Museu de Santarém
Housed in a large yellow waterfront mansion, this museum is also known as the Centro Cultural João Fona, after the Pará artist who painted the frescoes on its interior walls. It features, among other things, an excellent collection of stone and clay artifacts from the Tapajoara cul
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SESC
An example of Rio Branco’s unexpected hipness is the city’s SESC complex, which operates as much as a cultural center as a social-services office. It sponsors lectures, screens creative film cycles and festivals, even stages live performances, all open to the public, and most free
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Praia da Barra da Tijuca
The best thing about Barra is the beach. It stretches for 12km, with the lovely blue sea lapping at the shore. The first few kilometers of its eastern end are filled with bars and seafood restaurants. The young and hip hang out in front of barraca (stall) No 1, in an area known as
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Capela do Padre Faria
Built between 1701 and 1704 and named after one of the original bandeirantes (roaming adventurers who spent the 17th and 18th centuries exploring Brazil’s interior), Ouro Preto’s oldest chapel sits at the far eastern edge of town, behind a triple-branched papal cross (1756) represe
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