Brazil Travel Blog

Last week I wrote an entry on the Brazilian National parks and today I’d like to share with you an interesting – albeit limited – resource I’ve just come across. It’s a series of brochures edited by Philips in partnership with the Brazilian publisher Horizonte Geográfico. The series is very small, in Portuguese, but it’s [...]

Brasil has 62 National Parks, and the list grows every year. Out of those, 22 are not opened to the public, as the government lacks the funds to run them, and only a very small amount of those parks opened for visitation have an infrastructure that remotely resembles what we understand for a National Park [...]

The list of World Heritage sites drafted by UNESCO includes 11 Brazilian locations under the Cultural Heritage category and 7 under the Natural Heritage one. ———————————————————— A. CULTURAL HERITAGE: 1. Brasilia 2. Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia 3. Historic Centre of São Luís do Maranhão 4. Historic Town of Ouro Preto 5. Sanctuary of [...]