The Amazon Theatre in Manaus

22 February 2016 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries Reading Time:  7 minutes

Teatro Amazonas © Joshjrowe/cc-by-sa-3.0

Teatro Amazonas © Joshjrowe/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Amazon Theatre (Portuguese: Teatro Amazonas) is an opera house located in Manaus, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. It is the location of the annual Festival Amazonas de Ópera (Amazonas Opera Festival) and the home of the Amazonas Philharmonic Orchestra which regularly rehearses and performs at the Amazon Theater along with choirs, musical concerts and other performances.   read more…

Estancias in South America

12 September 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  5 minutes

Estancia Villanueva © Jarrigorria/cc-by-sa-3.0

Estancia Villanueva © Jarrigorria/cc-by-sa-3.0

A Estancia or Estância is a Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese term describing private landholdings. In some areas these were large rural with similarities to the American term ranch.They are large farms which are spread over extensive areas often 10,000 hectares. Estancias in the southern South American grasslands, the pampas, have historically been a livestock (cattle or sheep) estate. In the early Caribbean and Mexico, holders of encomiendas acquired land in the area where they had access to Indian labor, and often the need for on-site Hispanic supervisors or labor bosses called estancieros. In Mexico, multiple estancias owned by the same individual could be termed an hacienda. The term estancia is used in various ways in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, southern Chile and southern Brazil. The equivalent in other Spanish American countries would be hacienda.   read more…

Olinda on the Atlantic Ocean

28 March 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  5 minutes

historical center © flickr.com - Prefeitura de Olinda/cc-by-2.0

historical center © flickr.com – Prefeitura de Olinda/cc-by-2.0

Olinda is a historic and one of the oldest cities in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, located on the country’s northeastern Atlantic Ocean coast, just north of Recife and south of Paulista. It has a population of 397,000 people and is one of the best-preserved colonial cities in Brazil.   read more…

The DFB Hotel in Brazil

1 November 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, House of the Month, Hotels, Sport Reading Time:  5 minutes

© CampoBahia.de

© CampoBahia.de

With its newly created sport and nature resort, campo bahia is a unique and sustainable joint Brazilian and German project of the future. campo bahia in Bahia, Brazil is starting its unique sport and nature resort in 2014 as a joint German and Brazilian project of the future, which has been confirmed by the German Football Association as the training camp for the German national team during its stay for the FIFA World Cup in 2014.   read more…

2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil: The venues

7 June 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Sport Reading Time:  57 minutes

The World Cup is scheduled to take place at 12 venues from 12 June to 13 July 2014. Off the 12 stadiums, seven are new and five are newly renovated venues. Overall 64 World Cup matches will be played in the stadiums.

Arena Corinthians in São Paulo © Copa2014.gov.br/cc-by-3.0

Arena Corinthians in São Paulo © Copa2014.gov.br/cc-by-3.0

The opening match between Brazil and Portugal will be held in Arena Corinthians in Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo. Due to the request of at least 65,000 seats for the World Cup opening match, 19,800 temporary seats will be added to the stadium for the tournament. Aníbal Coutinho designed the stadium to be “a stadium that would help the supporters, that would help the team to win matches, I wanted to make the supporters get on the pitch”. Aníbal leads a team of 25 architects. Arena Corinthians will be one of the venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics Football Tournament. Stadium’s website: Arena Corinthians.   read more…

Salvador da Bahia

10 March 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  7 minutes

Elevador Lacerda © flickr.com - elicrisko/cc-by-2.0

Elevador Lacerda © flickr.com – elicrisko/cc-by-2.0

Salvador (historic name: São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, in English: “City of the Holy Saviour of the Bay of all Saints”) is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. A particularly notable feature is the escarpment that divides Salvador into the Cidade Alta (“Upper Town” – rest of the city) and the Cidade Baixa (“Lower Town” – northwest region of the city), the former some 85 m (279 ft) above the latter, with the city’s cathedral and most administrative buildings standing on the higher ground. An elevator (the first installed in Brazil), known as Elevador Lacerda, has connected the two sections since 1873, having since undergone several upgrades.   read more…

Costa do Sauípe

20 January 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Costa do Sauípe Beach © Isha/cc-by-sa-3.0

Costa do Sauípe Beach © Isha/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Costa dos Coqueiros is a privileged stretch of the Bahian coastline, where dunes and coconut trees unite to create a unique landscape. Crossing its entire length is the “Green Line,” a highway that leaves Salvador to the north and passes 26 beaches, including Costa do Sauípe. A paradise located just 76 km from Salvador. An excellent opportunity to visit one of Brazil’s most important and beautiful cultural capitals.   read more…

Recife, the Venice of Brazil

2 September 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Recife and its bridges © flickr.com - Américo Nunes/cc-by-2.0

Recife and its bridges © flickr.com – Américo Nunes/cc-by-2.0

Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,000,000 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper was 1,600,000 in 2012.   read more…

The Pantanal Conservation Area

20 July 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  7 minutes

© Alicia Yo/cc-by-sa-3.0

© Alicia Yo/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Pantanal is one of the world’s largest tropical wetland areas, and is located mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, but it extends into Mato Grosso and portions of Bolivia and Paraguay. It sprawls over an area estimated at between 140,000 and 195,000 square kilometres (54,000 and 75,000 sq mi). Various subregional ecosystems exist, each with distinct hydrological, geological and ecological characteristics; up to 12 of them have been defined.   read more…

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