A Juriti is the name of one of the most traditional bars in São Paulo. Located next to Parque da Aclimação, in an area known as Cambuci, this bar is perfect for those who want a drink in a place surrounded by locals and with a lot of tasty food to try between glasses of cold beer.
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Located on the outskirts of Paris, halfway between the French capital and Disneyland, Noisy-le-Grand looks like a piece of science fiction in the real world. This place is what modern architecture should look like, and it seems so futuristic that movie directors decided to use It as a location for movies like Brazil and The Hunger Games.
Edifício Copan, known in English as Copan Building, is one of the most important and memorable buildings in São Paulo. Located at Avenida Ipiranga number 200, it was open to the public in 1966, and it’s one of the symbols of the modern Brazilian architecture.
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I can still remember the first time I was left alone in an office around 4 o’clock in the afternoon. It was late summer in 2013, and it was the first time I was really working in Berlin. I was excited about everything I was doing and on the first week there, I was left alone in the office wondering why was I the only one there, in the middle of a workday. This was when I knew something was different about working in Berlin.
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The mountains are an important part of Belo Horizonte. So important that, back in 1997,… Read More »Belo Horizonte from Above: From Praça do Papa to Mirante das Mangabeiras
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Liberdade, translated to english as Freedom, is considered to be São Paulo’s Japanese neighborhood. Although today there are more Chinese and Koreans than Japanese. But, this is still the Japanese area of this huge south american city. And, most people don’t even know that this is the biggest community of Japanese people outside of Japan.
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Estádio Raimundo Sampaio is the official name but I never heard this name before. Everybody calls this football stadium by its nickname: Independência. But, I don’t believe most people know how it got its nickname and the history behind the second biggest football stadium in Belo Horizonte.
Sometimes people ask me where I come from and when I say Belo Horizonte, most people have a blank stare in their face. Normally, I say that Belo Horizonte is Sepultura’s hometown since it is the biggest thing that came out of the city, in my opinion. Since the World Cup in 2014, sometimes, I describe Belo Horizonte as the place where Germany destroyed Brazil with that 7×1 that is still stuck in my head as a brazilian living in Germany. But, lets forget about that game for a while.
If you ever go to Belo Horizonte, one of the places that you must visit is the Mercado Central. Belo Horizonte’s main market and the best place to buy every typical Brazilian food and, also, all the fantastic food Minas Gerais is famous for. But the place is more than just a market. There are bars, restaurants and everything you might need to have a real experience like a local.
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