January 28, 2012
Distance: Sunday in Salvador
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Distance: Jesus Walks
January 28, 2012
Jesus walks
The most important religious and popular party on the calendar takes place on the second Thursday in January. Dressed in traditional white garb and strings of beads, Bahianas (of the uniquely Brazilian, slave-descendant religion Candomble) lead an 8-kilometer (5-mile) procession of similarly white-attired and perfumed devotees and partyers from Comércio to the (Catholic) Igreja do Bonfim for the washing (lavagem) of the church steps.
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Distance: Oh! Yes!
Distance: Florianopolis
December 26, 2011
Tags: Florianopolis Brazil
Distance: Legend of the Falls
December 24, 2011
Niemeyer’s New Building
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, once a student of Le Corbusier, has opened a museum on his 103rd birthday. Famous for the city of Brasilia and for the UN Headquarters in New York, Niemeyer says his inspiration comes from the curves he finds in Brazilian women.
His role in the modernist movement was significant, and he is perhaps one of the greatest living architects today.
The Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Center, just outside Aviles in northern Spain, opened Wednesday. On Thursday, Niemeyer opened a museum of his own work, called the Oscar Niemeyer Foundation in Niteroi, Brazil.