The Folha de São Paulo publishes today the results of a study on air quality on six large Brazilian capitals: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte e Recife. The findings of the study won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has spent any reasonable amount of time at a large [...]
São Paulo has its own Recoleta cemetery, although smaller than its Buenos Aires counterpart, and far less known. The Consolação cemetery [Wikipedia] is quite close to the avenida Paulista, and even so, few people come by to visit it. It’s a pity, as the cemetery contains excellent works of art in the form of tombs, [...]
I’m sorry it’s been a quite time here at the blog. We were off for four days at the end of last week and then this is a kind of special week, as we are celebrating the first year online of De viaje a Brasil, the Spanish counterpart of this blog. It will be another [...]
Ariel, a reader of De Viaje a Brasil, suggested the idea of an entry with the draft of three different budgets for the traveller preparing a trip to Brazil. In spite of the difficulties inherent to a entry of this kind, I have accepted the challenge. I won’t bore you with lengthy explanations on why [...]
For those of you keen on attending a soccer (futebol) match while in Brazil, here’s the 2007 League calendar, including the scores of the games that have already been played. An up-to-date table is found here: Brasileirão – classificação. A few clarifications: the Brazilian league is known as the Brasileirão unless there is another ongoing [...]
