Parks

disneyland of art, take 4

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Inhotim, a major gem in both Brazil and the contemporary art world, has Free Wednesdays.  I visited the other week, and my photography benefited from so many school children visiting on day trips from the state capital, Belo.  Photography, only recently, is now permitted inside galleries: a very welcome artistic […]

caraça nature park

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Caraça is a jewel among the vast crown of backroads Brazil, hidden in mid-eastern Minas Gerais.  Originally a seminary founded in 1820 which schooled a number of Brazil’s presidents, it is now a private Nature Park and Shrine, which includes Brazil’s first neo-gothic church.  The park is essentially a large […]