Brazil Travel Guide
by: Cesare Ambrosi
Brazil’s beaches are considered the most beautiful
and funny of the world. To the discovery of the Brazilian
costumes, Copa Cabana in Río de Janeiro, famous for
its carnival, cuisine and the worm welcome of the local population.
WHY BRAZIL?
* For its wonderful beaches which are maybe the most beautiful
in the world. Not only for its nature but also for the amusing
life that encourages them. In Copacabana beach, Río
de Janeiro, any sport type may be seen at any hour of the
day or the afternoon.
* To attend the most impressive human show in the world that
is the Brazil carnival. In the smallest town in the country
all the activities are interrupted during a week for the carnival
and and nothing must seem to be more imporant than this celebrate.
* To cross the Amazon River from Belem to Manaus on board
of a lineal boat and this way to see how the Amazon runs on
the sides
* To dive inside the Brazilian music. The guitar and the
percussion are present and played everywhere in all the beaches
and squares of the country.
* To see Brasilia, the futurist city made in airplane form
a city that represents the braviest architectural companies
of this century.
GEOGRAPHICAL DATA
With a surface of 8.511.965 Km., Brazil is the fifth state
of the world for its extension. Besides Chile and Ecuador,
it is adjacent to another state of Suramérica. It has
four geographical types of area. The long sandy coast of the
Atlantic Ocean, the amazon basin that welcomes the biggest
jungle in the planet; the central plateau so call Planalto
Brasileiro; and the depression of the Paraguayan basin to
the southeast. Brasilia is the fascinating capital, a tourist
city in form of airplane within the amazon jungle.
Time Zone: -5.0 (summer); -3.0 (winter)
Duration of the days: maxim 13.5 (December); minimum 10 (June)
WHEN TO GO
Better Period: January, February, March, September, October
Good period: April, May, June, August.
Worst period. Julio
WEATHER
The whole Brazil has a tropical climate, therefore hot, humid
and rainy during the whole year. Inside the Amazon jungle
the percent of humidity never descend from 100% and Belem
almost in the line of the Ecuador, its in the entire world
the city where rainy s more.
Useful Information
Slight clothes of cotton, but also hot T-shirt if he/she
goes in winter station overalls in the south. A jacket slight
raincoat can be he very useful although against violent winds
and cloudbursts it serves very little. Clothes of long magas
against lso amazon inseptos.
CULTURE / MUSEUM
In lso museums of Sao Pablo, cultural capital of Brazil,
sexisten European insospechables art collections that give
of envying to muchso museums of the old continent. Also in
River of Janeiro there is cultural ocaciones for not losing.
Museum of Art
Address: Brought to an agreement Paulista 1578, San Paolo
of the Brasile
Schedule: 11-17.30; giovedì 11-20; monday closed.
Closed during Carnival
Entrance is paid
Interesting collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiques.
Squares, sculptures, ye Italian, French impressions, Englishwomen,
Spanish, Flemishes, Dutchwomen. After the works cousins they
are exposed Bernini's canvases, Botticelli, Raffaello, Cézanne,
Chagall, Gauguin, Picasso and Modigliani.
Museum of the Folklore and Aeronautical Museum
Address: Park do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo
Orari: 14-17; chiuso lunedì
Inside the splendid park of Ibirapuera, where architects
of world fame have worked, he/she can find lodging, this small,
but interesting museum I divide in two parts: one dedicated
to the Brazilian indigenous culture and the other one to the
aeronautics being pioneer of this phenomenon the Brazilian,
Santos Dumont.
Modern museum of Art
Address: Brought to an agreement Dom Enrique 85, Rio de Janeiro
Entrance is paid
Schedule: 12-17.30
Entrance is paid
The museum gathers works of the XX century, with works of
Albers, Brancusi, Buthe, Him Corbusier, Mathies, Picasso,
Polloch and Warhol. Interesting it is the picture section
and design, overalls that dedicated to the art Brazilian contemporary.
Brazilian African-American museum
Address: Praça Terreiro of Jesus, Salvador de Bahia
Schedule: 9-17; closed monday
Entrance is paid
Beautiful museum dedicated entirely to the African origins
of Brazilian nation. It proposes a trip after the hierarchy
of those "orichas", the born divinities after the
encounter of the Christian religion and the animist.
The Brazilian Cousine
Brazil earth of encounters and cultural crossings also since
it concerns the kitchen. The products traditionally used by
the first Indian cuisine to those used by the European settlers
and later with the traditions African gastronomitas. The result
is not more than an original and nutritious kitchen that makes
great use of vegetables, of meats, overalls to the south,
and of fish, overalls to north, where the plates are often
particularly spicy for the abundant use of the spicy pepper.
In each city it can be those "churrascarias", restaurant
that serves all type of flavorful meat, Brazilian national
pride, cooked to the coal and served by waiters that maintain
long roasted threaded as swords. In the north the meat dries
off in the sun and he/she receives the name of "meat
of sun". The plate national Brazilian in all ways is
the "feijoada". it is unique plate to base black
beans, dry and fresh meat served with "beacon" kind
of a taken out flour of the manioc. It is highly a po!
pular plate proteico and private room comes for Saturdays.
In the bay region it should be proven the absolutely "siri
casquinha", a lightly spicy cream, served as antipasto,
has like base delicious pulp of a small called crab "siri".
But the most traditional and good plate in the kitchen bahiana
is the "peixe moqueca". kind of a soup of white
fish, dry shrimps, vegetables, coconut milk and dendé
oil, a typical palm of the area. It is served as accompaniment
to a fish plate to the parilla. The Brazilian dinner begins
and it often finishes with a glass "caipirinha",
cocktail to base gave cachaca (distilled of cane of sugar),
lemon and sugar.
FUN / SHOPPING
The worked precious stones are one of the glories of the
country. On the other hand is dificult to return from Brazil
without having bought at least a new suit for the beach, a
pareo, and any disk of bossa nova.
Jeweler's
Brazil produces at about the 65% of the stones sold in the
world. This commercial event is due to the convenient prices
and the complete variety of stones coming from the Brazilian
mining, there also are beautiful silver objects as jewels
ingrained with the religious traditions of the country. It
is better to acquire these stones in reliable jeweler's that
give you receipts of guarantee and authenticity.The acquisition
of these stones can be related to visits to carving laboratories,
which offer them gratuitously by menas of the great international
house as that one of Stern.
Music
In the land of the zamba and that of bossa nova you cannot
give up to take home some original memory. Tom Jobim and Vinicius
of Moraes’ classic disks, to begin with, but also a
little bit ancients songs of Caetano Veloso, the Brazilian
music's great poet, Chico Buarque’s or the youngs Marisa
Montes and Vinicius Cantuaria. It is also Interesting the
traditional musical instruments, mainly percussion.
Apparel
The Brazilian boisterous bikini can be get in business and
bancarelas of any center spa. As well as a coloring pareos
that can be used as beach canvas or as improvised dress. It
must be remember that the Brazilian sizes are as a rule smaller
than the Italians. Therefore it will be great to try them
getting them.
Foods
An acquisition to be made may be at the last moment in the
airport,can be that of any Brazilian product. Perhaps the
coffee, also because it will found stronger and bitter that
Italian because of the diverse form of being toasted and later
the phlegm, a distilled from the sugar cane which afterwards
can be used as base to the caipirinha.
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