Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --- Mark Twain

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Belem


24.10.2013.

Belem a large city of Brazil with the population of two million inhabitants, and the city has an area of over 1,000 km2. The city's history begins since the year of 1616, when the fort was built here, and the status of a city was given to Belem already in 1655.

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Teatro La Paz - the house has been called “The Rival of The Manaus Opera House“, This building was completed during the years of the rubber boom and was opened in 1878. The building materials were brought mostly from Europe as it was with The Manaus Opera House.

Every hour there are excursions at the theatre. In the Portuguese language, and if necessary the same information again in English

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An Italian marble staircase, the metal handrails are from England, the mosaic tiles of the floor from Portugal, the mirrors from France.

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There are now 900 seats at the hall, initially there were 1,100 of them.

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The parking lot in front of the theatre - when it is said that no free space for parking- then it really is so. Parking in the center of the city is a problem indeed.

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The restored fort.

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The further away - the market of Ver-o-Paso

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Cathedral of Se.

Mangal das Gracas is a city park, opened in 2005, and it is also at the same time a Botanical garden with ponds for birds and a large butterfly house. In short, a larger recreation complex. Birds and animals walk around freely.

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Iguana on the lawn beside a walking path.

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In large ponds were turtles...

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And a great many birds.

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In the middle of the park there is a gazebo, the visitors are taken up in a lift

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The panorama of Belem.

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The viewing platform by The River of Para.

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The black building on the left is a butterfly house covered with net.

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A food-dish for the butterflies.

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Normally, when shooting a butterfly, it will come out like that.

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The butterflies are eating a pineapple, I did not know it before, but now again a bit wiser - one learns throughout the life.

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And here is also a museum introducing an Amazon ship and the process of boat building.

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The next destination is Maraba.

But more about it already in the next post.

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