This is the sixth on a series of videos produced by the Brazilian tourism authorities. They all have a common theme: those states that will host 2014 World Cup games. During the coming weeks we will present all those videos here in the blog. They are shortish videos, with conventional but beautiful images of the [...]
This is a guest post by our friend Ernesto. He first came to Pernambuco in March of 2007 as a tourist. In January of 2008 he returned and since then has been living in Olinda. He keeps two blogs: a personal one and another that focuses solely on Olinda. His email is nyenye03 at hotmail [...]
The cities that will host the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil have been chosen. They are Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaos, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo. It is almost certain that the World Cup final will take place at the Maracanã stadium in Rio. São Paulo [...]
Google has just incorporated a transit layer to its maps. It contains information for a number of world cities, including an important selection from Brazil: Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Recife, Río de Janeiro and São Paulo. When you turn on the transit layer (accesible through a drop-down menu on the top right-hand side of the [...]
[Photo by Elton Melo reproduced under a Creative Commons licence] To make up for the absence on this blog of a specific post devoted to Recife, I am publishing a blog entry with links to sites of interest. The official website of the Secretaria de Turismo de Recife is really poor and doesn’t even bother [...]
