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Várzea Do Carmo
Várzea do Carmo was the designation of one of the Central Zone of São Paulo, central areas of the city of São Paulo, adjacent to the Carmel Convent of São Paulo, Carmel Convent and frequently affected by the floods of the Tamanduateí River, formerly known as Piratininga. In 1821, Major Pedro Arbues Moreira submitted to the government a proposal to drain the Várzea do Carmo by opening a 40-meter-wide canal; the work was not carried out as it was too expensive. Many improvements were made to the site during the presidencies of Vicente Pires da Mota and João Teodoro Xavier, including the change in the course of the Tamanduateí River. The complete sanitation and recovery of Várzea do Carmo was a slow process. After the canalization of the river, which was completed in the 1920s, the name was disused and today the area is equivalent to Parque Dom Pedro II, Dom Pedro II Park. On April 14, 1895, at Várzea do Carmo, a soccer match was played between Englishmen and Anglo-Brazilian ...
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Panorama Da Cidade De São Paulo, Da Coleção Brasiliana Iconográfica
A panorama (formed from Greek language, Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any Obtuse angle, wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography (panoramic photography), film, seismic images, or 3D modeling. The word was coined in the 18th century by the English (Irish people, Irish descent) painter Robert Barker (painter), Robert Barker to describe his panoramic paintings of Edinburgh and London. The motion-picture term Panning (camera), ''panning'' is derived from ''panorama''. A panoramic view is also purposed for multimedia, cross-scale applications to an outline overview (from a distance) along and across repositories. This so-called "cognitive panorama" is a panoramic view over, and a combination of, cognitive spaces used to capture the larger scale. History The device of the panorama existed in painting, particularly in murals, as early as 20 A.D., in those found in Pompeii, as a means of generating an immersive ...
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Brazilian Constitution Of 1824
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Historic Center Of São Paulo
The Historic Center of São Paulo (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Centro Histórico de São Paulo''), also known as Centro, is a neighborhood in the Central Zone of São Paulo, Central Zone of the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. It corresponds to the area where the city was founded on January 25, 1554, by the Jesuits, Jesuit priests António Vieira, Joseph of Anchieta and Manuel da Nóbrega, Manuel da Nobrega. It is composed of the Sé (district of São Paulo), Sé and República (district of São Paulo), República districts and features most of the buildings that portray the city's history, such as the Pátio do Colégio, the location of its establishment. The Historic Center is extremely rich in historical monuments dating from the 16th through the 20th centuries. The area is home to several cultural centers, bars, restaurants, museums, most of the city's tourist attractions and municipal and state government offices. The State Secretariat for Sport and Tourism promotes ...
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Washington Luís
Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa (; 26 October 1869 – 4 August 1957) was a Brazilian politician who served as the 13th president of Brazil. Elected governor of São Paulo state in 1920 and president of Brazil in 1926, Washington Luís belonged to the Republican Party of São Paulo (PRP) and served as the last president of the First Brazilian Republic.Biografia
biblioteca.presidencia.gov.br Facing the crisis generated by the in the United States, the president lost almost all his support. He selected his friend Júlio Prestes as his successor in 1930, but just three weeks bef ...
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Avenida Do Estado
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Palácio Das Indústrias
The Palácio das Indústrias is a historical building in São Paulo, under the protection of the Council for the Defense of Historical, Archaeological, Artistic and Tourist Heritage (CONDEPHAAT). It was designed by in conjunction with Ramos de Azevedo and and is located in the Parque Dom Pedro II. It is a representative of the Eclectic style and was designed for hosting industrial exhibitions. The first exhibition was held there in 1917. It was converted into a legislative assembly in 1947 and its name was changed to the "Palácio Nove de Julho" (Ninth of July, commemorating the Constitutionalist Revolution The Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 (sometimes also referred to as Paulista War or Brazilian Civil War) is the name given to the uprising of the population of the Brazilian state of São Paulo against the Brazilian Revolution of 1930 wh ...). In the 1970s, it also served as the home of the Public Security Secretariat and contained some jail cells. In 1992, af ...
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Luz (District Of São Paulo)
Luz may refer to: People and fictional characters * Luz (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname or surname, including Spanish and Portuguese * Luz (cartoonist), pen name of French cartoonist Rénald Luzier (born 1972) Places * Luz (biblical place), either of two cities mentioned in the Bible * Luz, Minas Gerais, Brazil, a municipality ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Luz, in the city of Luz in the ecclesiastical province of Belo Horizonte * Luz (Santa Cruz da Graciosa), Portugal, a civil parish in the Azores * Luz, a parish of Mourão, Alentejo, Portugal * Luž, Czech for Lausche, a mountain in the German state of Saxony * Our Lady of Light Church, Chennai, known as Luz Church Arts and entertainment * ''Luz'' (Djavan album), 1982 * ''Luz'' (Luz Casal album), 1982 * ''Luz'' (Cuca Roseta album), 2017 * ''Luz'' (No Te Va Gustar album), 2021 * ''Luz'' (2018 film), a German horror film * ''Luz'' (2019 film), a Colombian drama film ...
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Brás
Brás is one of 96 districts in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Administratively part of the Southeast Zone of São Paulo, Brás is located immediately to the east of the historic downtown in the Subprefecture of Mooca. The district is an area of heavy industry with many factories and warehouses, known as a center of textile manufacturing. Two sets of railroad tracks cut across the district; the Brás rail station serves Metrô Line 3 (red) and three commuter rail lines operated by CPTM: Line 10 (turquoise), 11 (coral), and 12 (sapphire). Brás is famous for hosting the '' Feirinha da Madrugada'' informal street market. See also * Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo The Archdiocese of São Paulo (; ) is a Latin Metropolitan Archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil. The Archdiocese has been headed by Odilo Scherer since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 21 March 2007, an appointment that ... References External links PortalBrás ...
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Empire Of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828. The empire's government was a Representative democracy, representative Parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperors Pedro I of Brazil, Pedro I and his son Pedro II of Brazil, Pedro II. A Colonial Brazil, colony of the Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil became the seat of the Portuguese Empire in 1808, when the Portuguese Prince regent, later King Dom João VI of Portugal, John VI, fled from Napoleon's Invasion of Portugal (1807), invasion of Portugal and Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil, established himself and his government in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. John VI later returned to Portugal, leaving his eldest son and heir-apparent, Pedro, to rule the Kingdom of Brazil as regent. On 7 September 1822, Pedro declared the independence of Brazil and, after waging ...
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Rua 25 De Março
Rua 25 de Março or Rua Vinte e Cinco de Março () is a popular shopping street in the Central Zone of São Paulo, central zone of São Paulo, Brazil. The district surrounding Rua 25 de Março has long been synonymous in Brazil with large crowds and discount shopping. History Much of the area that is Rua 25 de Março today was originally part of the Tamanduateí River. A series of river engineering projects in the late nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries realigned the Tamanduateí River, Tamanduateí and Anhangabaú River, Anhangabaú rivers, moving the river and the port further to the east. The old port, Porto Geral, lends its name to one of the major cross streets of 25 de Março, Ladeira Porto Geral. The original street name, "Rua de Baixo", refers to the low (''baixo'') position of the land in comparison with the streets uphill to the west. In 1865 the name change was changed to commemorate the date of Brazil's first constitution, signed on 25 March 1824. Waves of Mid ...
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Central Zone Of São Paulo
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