Tourist Attractions & Monuments Brazil

The museu do barro is dedicated, as its name indicates, to terracotta pottery. The Nordeste is a land where this craft tradition is omnipresent. There is a lot of pottery on display, including about 70 original works by Mestre Vitalino, the most famous potter.

Alto da Moura: For those who are interested in the art of pottery, 6 km from Caruaru is the village of Alto do Moura, which is the real regional capital of this speciality, and where Mestre Vitalino comes from. The easiest way to get there is to take a taxi from Caruaru.

This fort was built in January 1598. Isolated in the middle of the sands, at the mouth of the Potengi River, it is shaped like a star. It was built to defend the city against the French and pirate attacks. Known as Fortaleza dos Reis Magos, the fort was the first building in the city. It was begun by the Portuguese on January 6, 1598 (the day of the Three Kings), hence the origin of the name. The star-shaped fortress is the origin of the city's construction and is its main historical and cultural monument.

It covers almost 390 hectares and is one of the largest urban fragments of Atlantic forest in Pernambuco. Dois Irmãos State Park is considered one of the main centres of in situ nature conservation in the country. Its exuberant ecosystem is home to free-living plants and animals, such as sloths, marmosets, coatis, capybaras and several birds. It is a botanical and zoological garden and an environmental education centre. Guides accompany visitors on the trails (remember to make reservations).

The origins of the Basilica of Nossa Senhora da Penha date back to the time of the hereditary captaincies, when the Dutch Count Maurice de Nassau, then governor, welcomed the first French Capuchin missionaries to Recife in 1642. The church was rebuilt in 1870, in an eclectic style of Italian inspiration. Inside, there are paintings by the Pernambuco artist Murillo la Greca. As well as the Museu Dom Vital (open on Fridays from 6am to 6pm).

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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) of the University of São Paulo (USP) celebrated its 50 years in 2013. Its history began with the transfer to the USP of the collections of the old museum of modern art in São Paulo. Today the MAC operates on three sites in town, including this one in L, where the public can enjoy high-quality temporary exhibitions throughout the year. In total, he has a fund of 10 000 works: oils, drawings, etchings, sculptures, objects and conceptual works… The biggest names here are Michelangelo Amedeo or Paul Klee, the Fauves Matisse and Dufy, the Picasso Picasso and Braque, the Abstractionnistes, Léger, Picabia, Alexander Calder, the surrealist Chagall, Ernst, Miro… This is for the foreign canvases, reminiscent of the collection of our Beaubourg museum in Paris.

We will also delight in the Brazilian component of the museum, dedicated to modernist artists, for the most part, such as Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Lasar Segall, Di Cavalcanti, Victor Brecheret, Vicente do Rego Monteiro and John Graz, all exhibitors of the Modern Art Week, which mark its time in 1922. The avant-garde of the 1930 ' s is not in rest, the collection counts many works of Carvalho de Carvalho, Aldo Bonadei, Francisco Rebolo… Noted the social theme developed by Innichen Portinari and Clóvis Graciano and the graphic arts addressed by Edith Behring and Renina Katz.

Finally, the collection of contemporary art is logically the most extensive. One can cite the great international masters who are exposed here, such as the post-modern surrealist Antonio Tàpies, and the great names of optical art such as Vasarely, or the pop art of Claes Oldenburg and Robert Rauschenberg.

From the 1960 s, the Biennale of art in São Paulo changed trends, and the wave of abstract expressionism and neo-concrete art developed in Brazil, reflecting the works of Lygia Clark, Iberê Camargo, Maria Leontina, Yolanda Mohalyi, Tomie Ohtake and Arcângelo Ianelli, the most Emblematic.

Finally more conceptual, the "combinations" of Nelson Remaking, Geraldo de Barros, Artur Barrio, Antônio Dias, José Roberto Aguilar, Cláudio Tozzi, Wesley Duke Lee, or Cildo Meireles are interesting. The conceptual art involving installations, performances and videos includes its Brazilian representatives, such as Mario Cravo Neto, Iole de Freitas or Julio Plaza.

For those who take the road on one of the many bridges in the city linking the old Pernambuco to Olinda, it is difficult not to see this military building. Built by the Dutch in 1667, the fort was originally called Frederic Henry in honour of the Prince of Orange but, given its pentagonal structure, it was soon nicknamed Forte das Cinco Pontas (Fort of the Five Points), its current common name. It now houses the Museu da Cidade de Recife.

In a comical Art Nouveau style (dating from 1876), the building housed until 1969 the government palace of Paraná. Today it has several exhibitions that pay tribute to the creation of Paraná and its society. There are coins, a piano from 1843 and a collection of weapons. In the side building, on exhibition panels there are scenes of immigrants arriving in Paraná, Tupi tribes and scenes reminiscent of the riots that enamelled the history of Paraná or Curitiba.

Interesting, covers all sectors of communication: press, TV, cinema, radio, advertising, disco, more than five thousand 78 towers.

You'll see everything about the daily life of the people who built the Acre state.

There is another religious building in Iguaçu. A Buddhist temple, with about 120 Chinese statues, was built in 1996 by the Chinese communities of the triple border to provide the region with a place of prayer. It is frequented for its religious use. Among the most remarkable statues, a 7 m high statue of a seated Buddha, and 18 of Buddha's disciples including Kalika, Nantimitolo and Kanakavatsa. A little far from the center, we go there for the stroll, the originality of the place and the sight on the triple border from the heights.

The museum was founded in 1979 by Gilberto Freyre as a result of the merger of three other museums: the Museum of Anthropology (1961-1978), the Museum of Popular Art (1955-1978) and the Sugar Museum (1963-1978). It is a reference in the whole region, especially for its research in the areas of anthropology, sugar culture and popular art. Origins, works, beliefs, habitat, habits and customs that reveal the cultural diversity of the Nordeste.

The museum has been housed since 1940 in the beautiful Palacete, a 19th century building in the Graças district, the former residence of Dr. Augusto Frederico de Oliveira, son of the Baron of Beberibe. It has an important and varied collection of pieces related to the history of the State from its creation in the 16th to the 19th century: war relics, furniture, jewels, coins, paintings, instruments, etc. Important collection of art from the colonial and Dutch periods.

Caldas Novas is a popular tourist destination in Brazil, known primarily for its thermal pools. However, the town offers much more than that. In addition to the warm, mineral-rich waters, Caldas Novas offers pretty parks, plenty of sunshine and Lake Corumbá, making it one of the most relaxing places in the country. Among the town's must-see attractions are the diRoma Acqua Park, a popular water park, and the Japanese Garden, a magnificent garden. Nature lovers can also visit the Parque Estadual Serra de Caldas, a national park offering superb scenery. For relaxation, Caldas Novas offers a selection of hotels and resorts, such as the private Praias do Lago Eco Resort. When it comes to dining, the town offers a variety of restaurants, including Trattoria Bartolomeu 1722, specializing in Italian cuisine.

One cannot pass to Iguaçu without seeing the big domes of the mosque Omar Ibn al Khattab. This religious building is at the height of the second Arab community of the country, constituted in majority by Siro-Lebanese. It was built in the early 1980s. The architecture is impressive to the layman and the interior is decorated with arabesques and inscriptions from the Koran. It is necessary to take off one's shoes and wear appropriate clothing. May 12 in Foz is the day of the Muslim community. There is an Arab market and many restaurants in Foz.

The cave is 403 m long and is worth a detour!

This cave of 650 m long and 18 m deep is surprising by the space of its rooms, very high and luminous and the aesthetics of its stalactites is particularly beautiful. From Belo Horizonte, take 2 hours of bus.

A superb 998 m extension (220 m is open to the public), which descends up to 40 m deep. Stalactites and stalagmites, as well as rock cascades with crystal reflections. The main attraction, the two superb stalactites of 13 m high, intact, rare (one count only one in Spain) which took about 20 000 years to train.