Christ in the Esplanade

Harbour Canavieiras

Routes varied lead to mangroves and coastal communities in the region. Among the most popular rides are the ones leading to the villages of Barra Velha - especially the medicinal mud bath - and the Belmont, at the mouth of the River Jequitinhonha. Boats and boats leave the docks of Canavieiras through the port taking a beautiful sunset.

Church of St. Bonaventure

With neoclassical architecture, the church is located in Plaza St. Bonaventure, in downtown area. The diversifying the attractions for visitors to the site.

Stone Cross Convent of St. Anthony

Monument that is located in front of the Convent of St. Anthony, where you can view it with details of their construction in stone.

Convent of St. Anthony

The set of church and convent of St. Anthony is located in the city center of Cairo in Bahia in the high ground. Of viewpoints that exist in the circulation of a thin floor, guests enjoy the beautiful view of the sea and the countryside. Its facade, preceded by a cross of stone, is facing the strait separating the islands of Cairo and Boipeba. The monastery is wrapped on three sides and a large wooded garden, partly walled. On the left side of the church are the ruins of the chancel of the Third Order, which was never built. Access to the convent is by a steep driveway, follow the Straight Street. The small town that retains its air of colonial village, was scheduled as the historical center.

Lighthouse Solitude

The Loneliness of the Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on the coast of Rio Grande do Sul in the Brazilian city of mustards in the district Dr. Edgardo Pereira Velho. It is about sixty miles northeast of the resort of mustards and about fifty-five miles south of Palmares do Sul

Features

The Lighthouse of Solitude is to highlight your landscape lush and wonderful. Its architecture is totally Brazilian.

Has the form of cylindrical concrete tower with lantern, gallery and four giant buttresses or longitudinal. Presents a red color, and 21 meters tall.

Displays the focal plane of twenty-four meters (seventy-eight feet).

The luminous range present in normal atmospheric transparency, is 19 nautical miles.

Shrine of Our Lady Mother of God

The Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady Mother of God is a magnificent Catholic church located on the hilltop Round Stone, Sanctuary Street, near Alpine Road, in Porto Alegre. The design for the building dates from 1987 but its construction was delayed due to environmental concerns, and its foundation stone could only be released on August 16, 1992, being consecrated by the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner. It was completed in June 2000, joining the celebrations of the Third Millennium.

It has 700 m² of constructed area, divided into two floors. It is a steel frame, brick and glass of bold lines, defined mainly by large pitched roof which organizes the whole package and extends to the ground level. It features a series of stained glass windows illustrating the Old Testament and the Sacraments, and a large statue of the patron, coming from Italy and carved linden wood. It is also a much sought sanctuary with the beauty and ecological spectacular 360 degree view of Porto Alegre and neighboring Guaíba including the estuary and the entrance of the lagoon (Lighthouse Itapuã). So the city's tourism bus passes several times a day for the site.

The complex includes a sanctuary steeple independent and sanitary facilities for the general public who attends on festive occasions and festivals. For these events an altar was installed outdoors on the terrace in front of the temple, where you can also enjoy a magnificent view of the entire region of Porto Alegre and estuary Guaíba.

Since 2010 the Sanctuary is run by the Redemptorist priests. Currently the rector is the Rev. Lily Pezzini and the administrator is Fr Beijamin Menegolla.

Archaeological site St. Michael the Archangel

The Archaeological Site of St. Michael the Archangel is a set of ancient ruins of Sao Miguel Ancanjo reduction, part of the so-called Seven Peoples Missions and one of the main traces of the period of the Jesuit Missions of the Guarani in the world, located in the small town of San Miguel Mission in the Northwest of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Church interior.

The site, commonly called the ruins of San Miguel Mission, is considered World Heritage by UNESCO, together with the ruins on the Argentine side of San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Our Lady of Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor since 1983.

The building was built in the eighteenth century, between 1735 and 1745.

The place is visited by tourists from around the world, especially from Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and European countries. The site is part of the international roadmap Iguassu-Missions.

Angelopolitana Cathedral in St. Angelo, was built in the mold of the church of San Miguel.

The Mission, a 1986 film starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons talks about the Missions.

On site is also the Missions Museum, which houses an important collection of sacred sculptures of the Seven Towns.

Pelourinho in Salvador

The word refers to pillory a column of stone, usually located in the center of a square, where criminals were exposed and punished. In colonial Brazil was primarily used to punish slaves.

History

The story of Salvadorian neighborhood is intimately tied to the history of the city itself, founded in 1549 by Sousa, first governor-general of Brazil (when John III was the reigning monarch), who chose the place where it is located in Pelourinho Its strategic location - at the top, near the port and the commercial area and a natural barrier formed by an abrupt rise of land, real wall up to 90 meters high and 15km in length - making it easier to defend the city.
It was a highly residential neighborhood, where he concentrated the best houses, until the early twentieth century.
From the year 1960, the Pelourinho suffered a major degradation process, with the modernization of the city and the transfer of economic activities to other regions of Salvador, they transform the region's historical center in a den of prostitution and criminality.
Only since the 1980s (with the recognition of the houses as World Heritage by UNESCO) and 1990s (with the revitalization of the region) is that the pillory became what is today: a center of "effervescence" cultural.
In recent decades, the Pelourinho began to attract artists from all genres: film, music, painting, making it an important cultural center of Salvador.

Lighthouse Bar

In the seventeenth century, the port of Salvador was one of the busiest and most important of the continent, and it was necessary to assist vessels that arrived at the Bay of All Saints in search of Brazil wood and other wood-in-law, sugar, cotton, tobacco and other items, to supply the European consumer market.
At the end of this century, after the tragic sinking of the Galleon Blessed Sacrament, flagship of the fleet of the General Company for Trade of Brazil, on a sand bank opposite the mouth of Red River, to May 5, 1668, Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra was rebuilt from 1696, during the General Administration of John of Lancaster (1694-1702), and received a beacon - a square tower topped by a bronze lantern glass fed to whale oil - according to the Institute Geography and History of Bahia, Brazil's first and oldest of the Continent (1698), when it began to be called the Lookout Bar or the Lighthouse Bar.

Lighthouse and Fort Santo Antônio da Barra.

Location of Lighthouse.

The logbook of the English buccaneer William Dampier in 1699, reports: "The entrance of the Bay of All Saints is defended by the imposing fortress of St. Anthony, whose hanging lanterns and lit to guide ships, seen at night."
Regent Decree of July 6, 1832 ordered the installation of a more modern lighthouse, built in England, replacing the old one. Upon completion of the works, opened in December 2, 1839, the new lighting equipment catóptico stood on a tower of masonry Tronconi, with a range of eighteen nautical miles in clear weather.
In 1937, the old system "Barbier" (incandescent kerosene) lighting has been replaced by electric light, is celebrating the centenary of the first lighthouse to December 2, 1939. Today the lighthouse is enshrined as an icon of the Bahian capital, inspired artists and poets.

Latin America Memorial

The Latin American Memorial is a cultural, political and entertainment, opened in March 18, 1989 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The architectural complex, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is a monument to cultural integration, political, economic and social development in Latin America, located in an area of ​​84,482 meters square in the Barra Funda. Its design was developed by cultural anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro. It is a foundation under public law state, with financial and administrative autonomy, linked to the Ministry of Culture, according to Decree signed by the Governor of the state, Geraldo Alckmin, on 1 January 2011.
The complex consists of several buildings arranged over two areas linked by a footbridge, which amount to around 25,210 meters of building area square: the Hall of Acts, the Latin American Library, the Center for Studies, Galeria Marta Traba, the Creativity Pavilion, the Simon Bolivar Auditorium, Annex of the Congressmen and the building of the Latin American Parliament. In Civic Square, is a concrete sculpture, also by Niemeyer, representing an open hand in an upright position with the map of Latin America painted in red on the palm.
The memorial features a permanent collection of works of art, displayed along the esplanade and the internal spaces, and has a documentation center for Latin American folk art. The library has about 30,000 volumes, plus music and picture section. The complex holds exhibitions, lectures, debates, video sessions, theater, music and dance. Keeps the Brazilian Center for Latin American Studies, the organization to promote academic research on Latin American affairs. Our regularly publishes the magazine America and several books. Served as headquarters for the Latin American Parliament between 1989 and 2007 (currently located in Panama City).

Square Clock

Originally designed to accommodate a unit of USP that would be known as cuore (heart) of the University, in which equipment would be gathered to welcome visitors and students to gather (such as bus, restaurants, dormitories, etc.), today this site characterized as a large free space marked by the presence of a monumental tower, designed by architect Rino Levi, in which there is a clock on top (hence the name of the square). In mid-1990 Square undergoing extensive renovations, acquiring the shape it has today. Near the Clock Square located the Conjunto Residencial USP (CRUSP), the building of the Rectory and Raia Olímpica.

Bethlehem

Bethlehem is a Brazilian city, capital of Pará State with an area of approximately a 064,918 sq km, is located in northern Brazil.
With a population of 1,392,031 inhabitants, is known as "Metropolis of the Amazon, " and the second largest tourist destinations in the Amazon. The city is headquarters of the Metropolitan Region of Bethlehem the second largest in the region.
In its nearly 400 years of history, Bethlehem experienced moments of fulfillment, including the heyday of the rubber in the early twentieth century, when the county received a number of European families, which came to greatly influence the architecture of its buildings being then known as Paris n'América. Today, despite being cosmopolitan and modern in many respects, Bethlehem has not lost the air of the traditional facades of mansions, churches and chapels throughout the colonial period. The city is known worldwide and has significant influence national and even international. Has important monuments, parks and museums such as the Theatre of Peace, Emilio Goeldi Museum, the Mercado Ver-o-Peso, and high profile events such as the Amazon Fashion Week, the Cirio deNazare and more.

Arcos da Lapa in the city of Rio de Janeiro

Arcos da Lapa, located in the Lapa district in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Considered as the architectural larger undertaken in Brazil during the colonial period, is today one of the postcards of the city, the most representative symbol of Old Rio preserved in the bohemian neighborhood of Lapa.