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Tira Chapéu Palace
The Edifício da Associação dos Empregados no Comércio da Bahia (in English: Bahia's Trade Employees' Association Building) or Palacete do Tira Chapéu (Tira Chapéu Palace) is a building inaugurated on December 30, 1917, designed to host the Trade Employees' Association (AECBA), located at the corner of Chile Street and Tira Chapéu Street, in Salvador, capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. History The history of the building is intrinsically linked with the history of the formation of Bahia's economic elite. It was conceived and financed by Commander Bernardo Martins Catharino - the owner of the palace that bears his name - the Comendador Bernardo Martins Catharino Palace. Located on Rua do Tira Chapéu at a corner of Rua Chile, it was organized by Italian engineer and architect Alberto Borelli representing the Companhia de Serraria e Construções. Construction work on the building began in June 1916 and was completed at its inauguration on December 30, 1917, mainta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador, Bahia
Salvador () is a Municipalities of Brazil, Brazilian municipality and capital city of the Federative units of Brazil, state of Bahia. Situated in the Zona da Mata in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of Brazil, Salvador is recognized throughout the country and internationally for its #Cuisine, cuisine, #Music, music, and #Pelourinho, architecture. The African influence in many cultural aspects of the city makes it a center of Afro-Brazilian culture. As the Capitals of Brazil, first capital of Colonial Brazil, the city is List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, one of the oldest in the Americas. Its foundation in 1549 by Tomé de Sousa took place on account of the implementation of the List of governors-general of Brazil, General Government of Brazil by the Portuguese Empire. Centralization as a capital, along with Portuguese colonization, were important factors in shaping the profile of the municipality, as were certain geographic characteristics. The construct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous administrative division, autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean.* * * Metropolitan Denmark, also called "continental Denmark" or "Denmark proper", consists of the northern Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands. It is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, lying southwest of Sweden, south of Norway, and north of Germany, with which it shares a short border. Denmark proper is situated between the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east.The island of Bornholm is offset to the east of the rest of the country, in the Baltic Sea. The Kingdom of Denmark, including the Faroe Islands and Greenland, has roughly List of islands of Denmark, 1,400 islands greater than in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palace Of The Commercial Association Of Bahia
The Palace of the Commercial Association of Bahia (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Palácio da Associação Comercial da Bahia)'' is a building that houses the headquarters of the Commercial Association of Bahia (ACB), which had its inauguration on January 28, 1817. It is located in the Comércio (Salvador), Comércio neighborhood in the municipality of Salvador, Bahia, Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia in Brazil. Currently, the palace, which used to house public and private activities, does not provide any services other than those of the ACB itself. It houses a library, a pinacotheca, 19th century furniture, and other pieces that represent an invaluable historical and artistic collection. History The structure of the Palace of the Commercial Association of Bahia was built on the ruins of the São Fernando Fort, which was demolished between 1814 and 1816. The construction was financed by the former governor of Bahia, Dom Marcos de Noronha e Brito, 8th Count of Arco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Pedro Clock
The São Pedro Clock is an open-air monument located in Salvador, the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. It is located in Largo de São Pedro, next to the monument to the Baron of Rio Branco, and where the São Pedro Church was previously located, demolished in 1913 for the construction of Avenida Sete de Setembro promoted by the then governor of Bahia J. J. Seabra. The result of an initiative by the Association of Employees in the Commerce of Bahia, it was inaugurated on November 15, 1916 (the day of the Proclamation of the Republic), already under the state government of Antonio Muniz de Aragão. Details It consists of a bronze sculpture by the Italian artist based in Brazil Pasquale de Chirico, completed in Paris in 1914, and four Henri-Le Pante clocks made in Paris. Made with the techniques of casting and hewn stone, the material of the sculptural base of the clock is cast iron and pink granite. The monument is shaped like a lamppost with a lantern adorned above th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archbishop's Palace Of Salvador
The Archbishop's Palace of Salvador (, also ''Palácio do Arcebispado de Salvador'', ''Palácio Arquiepiscopal da Sé'') is a Roman Catholic residence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It is located on the Praça da Sé in the Pelourinho historical district of the city. The palace was built in the early eighteenth century and is one of the best examples of Portuguese colonial-period civil architecture in Brazil. The Archbishop's Palace was listed as a historic structure by the National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute in 1938. IPHAN transferred ownership of the palace to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia in 2011. The palace sits within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Historic Center of Salvador. Part of the structure was converted into a cultural center, the Cultural Center of the Palácio da Sé, which opened in 2020. History The Archbishop's Palace dates to the early 18th century, when a royal charter authorized the construction of a resid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dom Pedro II Home
The Dom Pedro II Home (, formerly known as ) and later , is an 18th-century retirement home in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It was built as largest private residence in the 19th century in Bahia, and was renovated into a social services home in 1887. The current retirement home is administered by the Municipal Secretariat for Social Promotion and Fight against Poverty (SEMPS) of Salvador. The building, located at Avenida Luís Tarquínio nº 18, was listed as a historic structure by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage in 1978. The Dom Pedro II Home is likely the largest private residence built in Bahia, and is approximately in length. Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, a Brazilian Vententian Sister, was murdered while working at the retirement home in 1993 and was subsequently beatified in 2007. Location The Dom Pedro II Home was built on a privileged location in Salvador on the south of the Itapagipe Peninsula facing the Bay of All Saints. The house is located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroque In Brazil
The Baroque in Brazil was the dominant artistic style during most of the colonial period, finding an open ground for a rich flowering. It made its appearance in the country at the beginning of the 17th century, introduced by Catholic missionaries, especially Jesuits, who went there in order to catechize and acculturate the native indigenous peoples and assist the Portuguese in the colonizing process. In the course of the Colonial period, expressed a close association between the Church and the State, but in the colony there was not a court that would serve as a patron of the arts, the elites did not bother to build palaces, or to help sponsor the profane arts, but at the end of the period, and how the religion had a strong influence on the daily lives of everyone in this group of factors derives from the vast majority of the legacy of the Brazilian Baroque period, is the sacred art: statuary, painting, and the work of carving for the decoration of churches and convents, or for p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G1 (website)
G1, stylized as g1, is a Brazilian news portal maintained by Grupo Globo and under the guidance of Central Globo de Jornalismo. It was released on 18 September 2006, the same date as Rede Globo's anniversary. The portal provides journalistic content from various companies of Grupo Globo – TV Globo, Globo News, Radios CBN and Globo, the newspapers O Globo, Extra, Expresso and Valor Econômico, Época and Globo Rural magazines, among others – besides its own reports in the form of text, photographs, audio and video. In addition to five editorial offices in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília, Belo Horizonte and Recife, affiliates of Rede Globo, newspapers, magazines, radio stations and news agencies Agência Estado, Agence France Presse, Associated Press, EFE, The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Tarde
''Jornal A Tarde'', widely known as ''A Tarde'', is a daily newspaper published in Bahia, Brazil. The paper was founded by the journalist and politician on 15 October 1912. It is currently the oldest circulating newspaper of Bahia, and the largest of the Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...ian regions North and Northeast. Its headquarters is located at the Professor Milton Cayres de Brito street, 204, Caminho das Árvores, in Salvador. References External links * 1912 establishments in Brazil Daily newspapers published in Brazil Newspapers established in 1912 Portuguese-language newspapers Companies based in Salvador, Bahia {{Brazil-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its wikt:monocentric, monocentric Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area is the List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, second-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the Manzanares (river), River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding Community of Madrid, autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
