Culture of Brazil
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The culture of Brazil has been shaped by the amalgamation of diverse indigenous cultures, and the cultural fusion that took place among Indigenous communities, Portuguese colonists, and Africans, prim
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo
The Brazilian people have several ethnic groups. First row: Portuguese, German, Italian, Arab, and Japanese respectively. Second row: African, pardo (cafuzo, mulato and caboclo, respectively) and Indigenous (Amerindian) Brazilians.
Christ the Redeemer is a cultural icon of Brazil, and is listed as one of the New7Wonders of the World.
The Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida is the second largest in the world, only after the Basilica of Saint Peter in Vatican City.
Portuguese Brazilians
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Portuguese Brazilians are Brazilian citizens whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Portugal. Most of the Portuguese who arrived throughout the centuries in Brazil sought economic opportunities
Brazilians of Portuguese descent in Santos
Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral (center-left, pointing) sights the Brazilian mainland for the first time on 22 April 1500.
The first Mass in Brazil among the native Indians on 26 April 1500. Painting by Victor Meirelles (1860).
Carioca Aqueduct in Rio de Janeiro as depicted by Leandro Joaquim (1790).