Daylight savings time begins at midnight on Saturday 15 for the regions South, South East and Centre-West (they include the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Distrito Federal). Bahia, in the Northeast, will also implement [...]
A couple of months in anticipation of the Christmas season, work to build up the famous Christmas tree in Rio de Janeiro has begun (No Rio, árvore de Natal já começa a ser montada). The tree is traditionally erected on the middle of the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas. It will be inaugurated on 26 November [...]
The figures for foreign tourism in Brazil in 2010 are just out (Veja dados detalhados dos turistas estrangeiros no País). The top ten national groups are as follows: Argentina – 1,400,000 (27.12% of the total of foreign tourists that visited Brazil in 2010) United States – 641,000 (12.43%) Italy – 245,500 (4.76%) Uruguay – 228,500 [...]
Brazilian summer time comes to an end at midnight on Saturday 19. This change applies to the South, Southeast and Centre-West regions of the country (the states affected by the change are: Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do [...]
Daylight savings time begins at midnight on Saturday 16 for the regions South, South East and Centre-West (they include the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Distrito Federal). We’ll have to put the clocks forward [...]
