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Largo Da Memória
Largo da Memória (Memory Square), formerly known as Largo dos Piques, is a historic square located in the center of the city of São Paulo, Brazil, at the beginning of 7 de Abril Street (formerly Palha Street). Representative of the urbanization of São Paulo (state), State of São Paulo, it is triangular, delimited by the streets Coronel Xavier de Toledo (formerly known as Paredão Street) and Quirino de Andrade (formerly Ladeira do Piques Street) and Ladeira da Memória Street, which gave origin to the name of the square, near Vale do Anhangabaú, Anhangabaú Valley, currently part of Bandeira Square. Built at the end of the Colonial Brazil, colonial period, the square hosts the first, and therefore oldest, monument in São Paulo, the Piques Obelisk (Piques Pyramid), inaugurated in 1814. The site has gone through several changes, including a name change. Physical changes include the addition of walls, staircases and a portico. In 1945, Henrique Manzo, using as reference the ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo
São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the Americas, Americas, and both the Western Hemisphere, Western and Southern Hemispheres. Listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as an global city, alpha global city, it exerts substantial international influence in commerce, finance, arts, and entertainment. It is the List of largest cities#List, largest urban area by population outside Asia and the most populous Geographical distribution of Portuguese speakers, Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The city's name honors Paul the Apostle and people from the city are known as ''paulistanos''. The city's Latin motto is ''Non ducor, duco'', which translates as "I am not led, I lead." Founded in 1554 by Jesuit priests, the city was the center of the ''bandeirant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinheiros
Pinheiros (, "pine trees") is a district in the subprefecture of the same name in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Prior to development, the land which this borough occupies was dominated by the dense forest which contained a Brazilian subtropical species of pine, ''Araucaria angustifolia'', which is also the symbol of the Paraná state. The district comprises the neighborhoods of Jardim das Bandeiras, Jardim Viana, Jardim das Rosas, Pinheiros, Vila Madalena, Sumarezinho, Jardim Europa, and Jardim Paulistano, the last two being part of the Jardins Jardins ( Portuguese for ''Gardens'') is the name given to an upper-class region of São Paulo city, which includes the neighbourhoods all comprised within the Subprefecture of Pinheiros: * Jardim Paulista - in the Jardim Paulista district * Jar ... upper class region. The HDI of the borough was 0.960,Atlas for the work and development of the municipality of São Paulo, Fundação Seade, 2007 - http://www2.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal Chamber Of São Paulo
The Municipal Chamber of São Paulo is the unicameral legislative body of the city of São Paulo, it was created in 1560 by the Governor General Mem de Sá and is one of the oldest in Brazil. Note References External links * Municipal chambers in Brazil Organisations based in São Paulo Politics of São Paulo {{Brazil-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Catarina (state)
Santa Catarina () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It is located in the centre of the country's South Region, Brazil, Southern region. It is bordered to the north by the state of Paraná (state), Paraná, to the south by the state of Rio Grande do Sul, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west by the Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Misiones Province, Misiones. The state covers an area of approximately , comparable to Hungary, and ranking as the List of Brazilian states by area, seventh smallest Brazilian state by area. With a population of 7.6 million inhabitants in 2022, it is the List of Brazilian states by population, tenth most populous state in Brazil. It is divided into 295 municipalities and its capital is Florianópolis, the second most populous city in the state after Joinville. Alongside Espírito Santo, Santa Catarina is one of the two states whose capital is not the largest city. Jorginho Mello, a member of the Conservative liberali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faience
Faience or faïence (; ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white Ceramic glaze, pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an stannous oxide, oxide of tin to the Slip (ceramics), slip of a lead glaze, was a major advance in the Pottery#History of pottery types, history of pottery. The invention seems to have been made in Iran or the Middle East before the ninth century. A kiln capable of producing temperatures exceeding was required to achieve this result, after millennia of refined pottery-making traditions. The term is now used for a wide variety of pottery from several parts of the world, including many types of European painted wares, often produced as cheaper versions of porcelain styles. English generally uses various other terms for well-known sub-types of faience. Italian tin-glazed earthenware, at least the early forms, is called maiolica in English, Dutch wares are called Delftware, and their E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It shares Anglo-Scottish border, a land border with Scotland to the north and England–Wales border, another land border with Wales to the west, and is otherwise surrounded by the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south, the Celtic Sea to the south-west, and the Irish Sea to the west. Continental Europe lies to the south-east, and Ireland to the west. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the population was 56,490,048. London is both List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, the largest city and the Capital city, capital. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic. It takes its name from the Angles (tribe), Angles, a Germanic peoples, Germanic tribe who settled du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guilherme De Almeida
Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida (July 24, 1890 – July 11, 1969) was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, film critic, poet, essayist and translator. He helped popularize the Japanese poem style, ''haiku'', in Brazil. Biography He was born in Campinas on July 24, 1890. He is the son of Estevão de Araújo Almeida, a law teacher and jurist, and Angelina Andrade Almeida. He married Belkiss Barroso de Almeida, and they had a son, Guy Sérgio Haroldo Estevão Zózimo Barroso de Almeida, who married Marina Queiroz Aranha de Almeida. He fought in the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932. His greatest work of love to São Paulo was his poem, ''Nossa Bandeira'' (Our Flag), but he also wrote ''Moeda Paulista'' (''São Paulo Coin'') and the poignant ''Oração ante a última trincheira'' (Prayer at the last ditch"). He was proclaimed The poet of the Revolution. He also wrote the lyrics of the "Canção do Expedicionário" ("Song of the Expedicionarários", the 'expedicionários' were the mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exedra
An exedra (: exedras or exedrae) is a semicircular architecture, architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's façade or free-standing. The original Greek word ''ἐξέδρα'' ('a seat out of doors') was applied to a room that opened onto a stoa, ringed with curved high-backed stone benches, a suitable place for conversation. An exedra may also be expressed by a curved break in a colonnade, perhaps with a semicircular seat. The exedra would typically have an apse, apsidal podium that supported the stone bench. The free-standing (open air) exedra, often supporting bronze portrait sculpture, is a familiar Hellenistic structure, characteristically sited along shrine, sacred ways or in open places in sanctuaries, such as at Delos or Epidaurus. Some Hellenistic exedras were built in relation to a city's agora, as in Priene. Monument architects have also used this free-standing style in modern times. Rise The exedra achieved pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Wasth Rodrigues
José Wasth Rodrigues (São Paulo, March 19, 1891 – Rio de Janeiro, April 21, 1957) was a Brazilian painter, drafter, illustrator, Ceramic art, ceramist, teacher and historian. He was the uncle of the also illustrator Ivan Wasth Rodrigues. Wasth Rodrigues was an important figure for the history of the city of São Paulo, being responsible for the development of several Brazilian municipalities' Coat of arms, coats of arms, such as that of the São Paulo, City of São Paulo, of Mogi das Cruzes and of São Sebastião, São Paulo, São Sebastião. Later, he would also design the coat of arms of the São Paulo (state), State of São Paulo. He also stands out for his work as a historian, leaving several publications focused on architectural documentation of civil and religious construction and works on antique furniture, clothing, insignias and military weapons. José Wasth Rodrigues was a pioneer in showing concern about the demolitions and decharacterization suffered by examples of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
