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Santa Teresa

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June 27th 2006
Thanks to Ryan, an american guy who rented our spare room for a few days, we finally did some sightseeing. Went downtown to check out the huge and strange looking Metrolpolitan Church before catching the old (and a bit scary) mountain trolly up to Santa Teresa. Santa Teresa is a small town up on the mountain just 15 minutes from down town Rio. According to legend it started out as a refuge for esc ... read more

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Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of t... ... read more