[Trantor]

German settled town that is...

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3018.jpg


the main park in Nova Petrópolis, which is not located in the city "downtown". Nova Petrópolis is known as "Garden City".

Garden in the park
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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3021.jpg

a monument
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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3025.jpg

the town Green Labyrinth
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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3023.jpg

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3024.jpg

Inside the labyrinth
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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3026.jpg

myself, posing as lost (well, maybe I WAS lost)
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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3033.jpg

arrived at the center, now must find a way out...
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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3027.jpg

9 its not a BIG labyrinth, still, its fun and quite difficult... I can only imagine how hard is a BIG one...
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3034.jpg

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3036.jpg

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3042.jpg

around the park
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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3037.jpg

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3040.jpg

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3045.jpg

18 - even the simpler houses have a nice garden. Unfortunatelly, my girlfriend was in a hurry to see some stores and kept hurrying me when I tried to find a good angle to take the pic...
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3046.jpg


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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3047.jpg

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3055.jpg


27 Near the small downtown of the town
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3056.jpg

Immigrant Park (didnt enter, but it has several original german houses from the 19th century
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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3061.jpg

more of (downtown)
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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/novapetropolis/130_3062.jpg

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saturday night, we went to a chopp microbrewery (in Brazil we call Draught Unpasteurized Beer as chopp, from german Choppen) in the city of Canela (no pics for you guys). Pharos Chopp. Well, there is no sea around, but the place has a kind of tower made of stone that immitates a pharos. Its some 30 meters high. Too bad I had no tripod so the night pics got all blurry
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[Kingofthehill]

Nice pics.

The place and people look very African.

[ColDayMan]

Thanks!

[Trantor]

Nice pics.

The place and people look very African.

certainly :)

[stepper77]

Nice photos and an interesting little town. Thanks!

[HooverDam]

The Nazi's who hid out in S. America after the war must've loved this place!

[Trantor]

The Nazi's who hid out in S. America after the war must've loved this place!

there were few of them that hid here. And they came to Brazil and Argentina EXACTLY because these two countries had many german descendants (including many german settled cities).

I live in Novo Hamburgo, which is also a german settled city, but with a population of 260k.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/rogeriopenna/NH2/129_2904.jpg
http://img95.echo.cx/img95/1484/12828467ro.jpg

[JEB77]

Thanks, Trantor. Love the pictures. Isn't Gisele from these parts? Want to come to Brasil again so badly (have the frequent flyer miles), but my visa expired.

When you're not taking pictures, can you work on getting the Brazilian government to drop the visa requirements for US citizens? I guess you'd like us to get rid of our visa requirements too, though, right?

[Trantor]

Thanks, Trantor. Love the pictures. Isn't Gisele from these parts?

Hmmm... depends on what you mean with "these parts". Yes, she is from my state, but Rio Grande do Sul state is bigger than Uruguay. She is from Horizontina, which is located in the northwest of the state, while Novo Hamburgo and Nova Petropolis are on the east of the state, near to Porto Alegre. The distance between Horizontina and Nova Petropolis is about 450 km.

Horizontina is near Santa Rosa
http://www.apoema.com.br/mapa_rs_np.jpg

There is a thread with photos of Horizontina on SSC, but I wont post them here because they would go on the FOUND CITY PHOTOS and as we all know, nobody visits those forums (my last four São Paulo threads there have zero replies)


Want to come to Brasil again so badly (have the frequent flyer miles), but my visa expired.

When you're not taking pictures, can you work on getting the Brazilian government to drop the visa requirements for US citizens? I guess you'd like us to get rid of our visa requirements too, though, right?

I really wouldnt care. I am not nationalistic or anything like that. So, if dropping VISA requirements for americans would be good for us from an economic sense (we already get so few tourists in Brazil... only 4 million annually. International tourism represents less for Brazilian GDP than to China, US, Mexico, Argentina or any european country), I am all for it.


But most brazilians, and the brazilian government (and if I am not mistaken, our constitution) dont think like that. Brazil acts with reciprocity in all occasions. If a country decides to require VISA from brazilians, we require VISAs from citizens of that country. If a country removes VISA requirements, we remove VISA requirements.

When US started to fingerprint foreigners, including brazilians, Brazil started to fingerprint americans travelling into Brazil.

National pride, you know...

[Trantor]

thanks for the replies.