Viewpoints – Placecloud

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  • A battle! A spectacle!
    Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Brazil. Here in the Guararapes National Historical Park, located in the municipality of Jaboatão dos Guararapes, it might be your lucky day if you’re able to attend a staging of the theatre show Batalha dos Guararapes - Assim Nasceu a Pátria, meaning The Battle of Guararapes - This is How the Motherland was Born.
    6 min
  • Colonizadores colonizados pela mandioca
    Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Brazil. Estamos na cidade do Cabo de Santo Agostinho, em Pernambuco, em frente à entrada para as ruínas de uma antiga casa de farinha. Neste local era feito o beneficiamento da mandioca, elemento central para a subsistência no Brasil Holandês, entre 1630 e 1654, representando tanto um recurso econômico quanto uma ponte cultural entre indígenas, colonos portugueses e administradores holandeses.
    6 min
  • Kolonisten, gekoloniseerd door cassave
    Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Brazil. We zijn hier in de stad Cabo de Santo Agostinho, in de staat Pernambuco. De ingang van het pad waar we nu voor staan loopt naar de ruïnes van een oude meelfabriek waar voorheen maniok, ook bekend als cassave, werd verwerkt tot meel, essentieel voor de Braziliaanse keuken, en ook van levensbelang tijdens de periode van Nederlands Brazilië tussen 1630 en 1654.
    6 min
  • Colonisers colonized by cassava
    Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Brazil. We are in the city of Cabo de Santo Agostinho, in the state of Pernambuco. The path that leads into the woods, here, will get you to the ruins of an old flour mill, where manioc, cassava flour, used to be processed, a central element for subsistence in Brazil, as well as in Dutch Brazil between 1630 and 1654, representing both an economic resource and a cultural bridge between indigenous peoples, Portuguese settlers and the Dutch administrators.
    6 min
  • O papagaio demoníaco
    Recife, Brazil. O Parque Estadual de Dois Irmãos é um zoológico e, também, uma unidade de conservação da Mata Atlântica desde 1916. Com 14 hectares, protege a biodiversidade local, como preguiças, saguis e aves, além de abrigar o zoológico do Recife, com 400 animais sob cuidados humanos, incluindo répteis, aves e mamíferos.
    6 min
  • De bezeten papegaai
    Recife, Brazil. Het Dois Irmãos Nationaal Park is sinds 1916 een dierentuin waar ook het Atlantische Oerwoud actief wordt beschermd. Het park beslaat 14 hectare en beschermt de lokale biodiversiteit, bestaande uit, onder anderen, luiaards, penseelaapjes en een flinke reeks soorten vogels.
    6 min
  • The demonic parrot
    Recife, Brazil. Dois Irmãos State Park has been a zoo and Atlantic Forest conservation unit since 1916. Covering 14 hectares, it protects local biodiversity such as sloths, marmosets and birds, as well as housing the Recife Zoo, with 400 animals under human care, including reptiles, birds and mammals.
    6 min
  • A primeira cerveja do Brasil
    Recife, Brazil. Aqui no bairro das Graças, zona norte do Recife, capital do estado de Pernambuco, ficava localizada a cervejarias apontada como a primeira das Américas, a "La Fontaine" ou "A Fonte" em francês.
    5 min
  • Het eerste Braziliaanse bier
    Recife, Brazil. Een van de eerste brouwerijen in Amerika, La Fontaine of De Fontein, of De Bron, in het Frans, was hier gevestigd in de wijk Graças, in het noorden van Recife.
    5 min
  • The first Brazilian beer
    Recife, Brazil. One of the first breweries in the Americas, La Fontaine or The Fountain in French, was located here in the Graças neighbourhood, in the northern part of Recife.
    6 min

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