The Brazil Travel Blog brings you every month a calendar for you to use on your computer desktop. In November we visit the Inhotim foundation. DOWNLOAD: – Large size – Small size Remember, a new calendar every month! subscribe to the Brazil Travel Blog by Email follow the Brazil Travel Blog on Twitter Did you [...]
Archive for October, 2009
[This post is part of a series devoted to tourism in five remote Brazilian states - the other entries include Acre, Amapá, Roraima and Tocantins.] Rondonia is on the northwest of Brazil, west of the state of Mato Grosso and south of the state of Amazonas, sharing a border with Bolivia. The relentless advance of [...]
Ouro Preto is the jewel on the Historical Cities of Minas Gerais crown. It was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site on account of its outstanding Baroque architecture. ———————————————————————– 1. HOW TO GET THERE: By bus. from Belo Horizonte: bus company Pássaro Verde runs an hourly bus from Belo Horizonte to Ouro Preto. Schedules and [...]
Publishing house Empresa das Artes, with an extense travel-related catalogue, is enabling free online access to the full contents of several of its guides. To read the guides you need to access the tool provided by Book Stand Panrotas. The available guides are: Amazonas Bahia Goiás Mato Grosso Pará Paraná Santa Catarina To open each [...]
The Instituto Inhotim is located in the town of Brumadinho, 60 km from Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais. I’d rather not use the term museum to refer to it as it does not do any justice to everything Inhotim has to offer. It contains a fantastic collection of contemporary art set in the [...]




