TOURING BRAZILPopular Cities and Attractions to Visit

Brazil is the 5th most populous country in the world with amazingly beautiful landscape

This presentation will provide you with a list of the more popular cities and attractions

The adjacent box lists the cities and attractions that will be covered

Rio de Janeiro Cristo Redentor Tijuca Forest Ipanema & Copacabana beach

Foz do Iguaçu Iguaçu Falls Parque das Aves Itaipu Dam

São Paulo Paulista Museum Ibirapuera Park Paulista Avenue

Florianópolis Cathedral Metropolitana Hercílio Luz Bridge Floripa Beaches

Introduction

Rio De Janeiro

Facts Attractions

State Capital of Rio de Janeiro

Called the “Wonderful City”

Commonly known as Rio

Is the second largest city in Brazil

Cristo Redentor “Christ the Redeemer”

Tijuca Forest / Tijuca National Park

Ipanema and Copacabana The two most beautiful

beaches of Rio De Janeiro

Cristo Redentor

A part of the new edition of the Seven Wonders of the World

Situated on top of the Corocovado Mountain

Approximately 125 ft high and covers over 2329 ft of the mountain

Largest urban forest in the world

Home to hundreds of species of animals from all around the Atlantic Forest

3,200 hectares of replanted forest from 1900’s

Tijuca Forest / National Park

Both beaches attract thousands of tourists each summer

Beach events are a famous thing for tourists and locals alike

Great places for surfing, body boarding, and skim boarding

Ipanema & Copacabana

Foz Do Iguaçu

Facts Attractions

Major city in the state of Paraná

Received name because it sits on the mouth of the Iguaçu river

The word “Iguaçu” means “large water”

Iguaçu Falls The most famous

attraction of Foz Do Iguaçu

Parque das Aves A bird park that is very

close to Iguaçu Falls Itaipu Dam

Largest Hydroelectric plant in the world

The most famous attraction of Foz do Iquaçu

Formed in the Iguaçu river and extends for 8,858 ft

(Falls) Have a flow capacity three times greater than Niagara Falls

Iguaçu Falls

Ecological sanctuary located near the Iguaçu National Park

Home to 900 birds from 180 species, 25 species of butterflies, and a reptile exhibit

Open daily, including holidays

8:30am-5:30pm winter 8:30am-6:30pm summer

Parque das Aves

The largest hydroelectric plant in the world

Considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World

The dam is 25,981 ft long and 643 ft high

Production capacity of 14,000 MW (megawatts)

Itaipu Dam

São Paulo

Facts Attractions

Capital of the most populous city in Brazil, São Paulo

Third largest city in the world

Known throughout the country as the “Business Capital”

Paulista Museum “Ipiranga”

Ibirapuera Park The most frequented

leisure area in the city Paulista Avenue

One of the largest business centers in Brazil

Built between 1885-1890 as a monument to the proclamation of Brazil’s independence from Portugal

Contains a collection of over 4 centuries of Brazilian history

The collection includes 125,000 items, such as paintings, sculptures, objects, etc.

Paulista Museum

A 4.92 million sq. ft. park The park has:

Walking/jogging paths Bikeways Sport courts Woods Lakes

Other important attractions: Modern art museum Biennial Art Exhibition

building

Ibirapuera Park

The most important avenue and main financial center of São Paulo

On this 1.74 mile long road one can find: Financial buildings Business centers Cultural Institutions São Paulo Museum of Art And one of the most

extensive shopping areas in Brazil

Paulista Avenue

Florianópolis

Facts Attractions

Capital city of the state of Santa Catarina

Half of the city is on the mainland of Brazil while the other half is on Santa Catarina Island

Often referred to as Floripa

Cathedral Metropolitana One of the most

beautiful buildings in the city

Hercílio Luz Bridge The postcard symbol of

the city Beaches

Dates back to 1750 Located on Praça 15

de Novembro Contains a wooden

sculpture of the “Flight into Egypt” by the 19th century Tirolean scupltor Ferdinand Demetz

Cathedral Metropolitana

Built in 1924-1926 Designed by Robinson

& Steinman Named in honor of

Hercílio Luz, a former governor of Santa Catarina

Approximately 1,115 ft long and 243 ft high

Has been closed to traffic since 1991

Hercílio Luz Bridge

The beaches of Florianopolis are some of the most breathtaking in the world.

There are 42 beaches, each different in its own way

Florianopolis has two of the best surfing beaches around Praia Mole Galheta

Beaches of Florianópolis

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