Brazil Tours & Travel

The Roman Catholic cathedral of Brasilia, Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida, was designed by the famous architect Oscar Niemeyer. The Cathedral is set behind the National Museum and the National Library, both equally as revolutionary as the rest of Brazil’s 1950s modern capital. While Oscar Niemeyer designed the buildings, Lucio Costa was the urban planner [...]

In Sao Joao del Rey, the terminus of the heritage railway, once a part of Minas Gerais Railways that sprung up in 1880s during the reign of the emperor Don Pedro II, as the Smoking Mary is getting ready to take off for its run to Tiradentes, passengers admire its polished parts and listen close [...]

Paraty, one of the oldest former Portuguese strongholds in colonial Brazil, is typically very sunny, always. But in mid-winter, July in Brazil, rainy, cold inversion from the Antarctica can hang over this southern part of Green Coast for days, though often a fluke, it curtails the mood.