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Pampulha Modern Ensemble
The Pampulha modern complex is the centerpiece of a visionary garden city project built in 1940 in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Built around an artificial lake, this cultural and leisure center includes a casino, a dance hall, a golf yacht club, and the São Francisco de Assis Church. The buildings were designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer in collaboration with innovative artists. The complex features bold forms that exploit the plastic potential of concrete while blending architecture, landscaping, sculpture, and painting into a harmonious whole. It reflects the influence of local traditions, the Brazilian climate, and the natural environment on the principles of modern architecture.
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves
The Southeastern Atlantic Forest Reserve, located in the states of Paraná and São Paulo, contains the finest and most extensive Atlantic Forest in Brazil. Comprising 25 protected areas (with a total area of approximately 470,000 hectares), the reserve showcases the biological wealth and evolutionary history of the last remaining Atlantic forests. From densely forested mountains to wetlands and coastal islands with isolated mountains and sand dunes, the area offers a rich natural environment of stunning beauty.
Iguazu National Park
The semicircular waterfall at the center of the site is about 80 meters high and 2,700 meters in diameter, located on the basalt line on the border between Argentina and Brazil. It consists of many waterfalls and splashes, making it one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. The surrounding subtropical rainforest has more than 2,000 species of vascular plants and is home to wildlife typical of the region: tapirs, giant anteaters, howler monkeys, ocelots, jaguars and caimans.
Pantanal Conservation Area
The Pantanal Conservation Area consists of four protected areas with a total area of 187,818 hectares. Located in the southwestern corner of Mato Grosso State in central-western Brazil, the reserve covers 1.3% of the Brazilian Pantanal region and is one of the largest freshwater wetland ecosystems in the world. The source of the region's two major river systems, the Cuiabá and Paraguay, are located here, and the richness and diversity of its vegetation and animals are amazing.
Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia
Salvador was the first capital of Brazil from 1549 to 1763 and witnessed a fusion of European, African and Amerindian cultures. From 1558, it was also the first slave market in the New World, where slaves came to work on the sugar plantations. The city has preserved many outstanding Renaissance buildings. A feature of the old town are the brightly colored houses, often decorated with elaborate stucco.