The best colection of 19th century Brazilian art
One of the greatest art museums in the country, Rio’s Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, just reopened after a three-year remodelling. Its Modern and Contemporary […]
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Boimate – a fruit perfect for pasta sauce
It happens everywhere and Brazil is no exception – every year, on the 1st of April , a distracted journalist believes in a lie told […]
Getting to know Brazil – a reading tour
By Jim Shattuck* When I travel I like to do a bit of reading before I leave to give me a little better insight into […]
Shortcut to understand the Brazilian people
Here is a master class on the History of Brazil and the genesis of its population: the documentary “O Povo Brasileiro” (The Brazilian People), based […]
Belo Horizonte in 1949
The capital of the state of Minas Gerais, unlike the many colonial sites that represent the best of Brazilian Baroque, was planned in the late […]
Samba de roda, mother of Rio’s Carnival
These pre-Carnival days, turn your eyes and ears to Bahia and discover the music that inspired Rio’s Carnival. Samba de Roda, considered by Unesco an […]
10 memorable soap operas
You may hate soap operas – but you cannot deny they are a great representation of the Brazilian people’s creativity and state of mind at […]
UFOs over Brazil
Brazil has its own Roswell – a widely documented episode in which hundreds of people declared they witnessed the presence of extraterrestrial aliens during a […]
7 things you should know before cruising a Brazilian city
Sales of private vehicles grew 10% in 2010 and Brazilians get more and more addicted to their cars. In a way, it is a pity […]
Zeppelin over the tropics
Rio, early thirties. “We ran upstairs to the open porch and saw the colossal Graf Zeppelin float by above us, sunshine reflecting from its silver […]