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	<title>The Brazil Travel Site &#187; Rio State is Bikini Haven</title>
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		<title>Rio State is Bikini Haven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brazilian bikini fashions are famous the world over. Bikini manufacturers of all types and sizes are scattered throughout the Southeast Region&#8211;not just on the coastline. Key production areas include Belo Horizonte, Divinopolis, Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, and topping them all…Cabo Frio. Known as the capital da moda praia, the capital of beach fashion, Cabo Frio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Rio: Confeitaria Colombo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you walk up Rua Gonçalves Dias from the Largo da Carioca, youll pass a number of cool shops. This is a great area for finding good deals on clothes. But the highlight of the street is the classic coffee shop and bakery, the Confeitaria Colombo (Gonçalves Dias 32). Used as the backdrop for numerous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Rio: Praça da Carioca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you see one church in the downtown area, make it the Igreja de São Francisco (Largo da Carioca, 11am&#8211;4pm Wednesday&#8211;Friday). Recently restored, the church is a large and beautiful example of the Baroque churches of the 17th and 18th centuries in Brazil, such as those found in Minas Gerais. In fact, some of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebraziltravelsite.com/wp/2010/04/17/historic-rio-praca-da-carioca/</link>
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		<title>A Brief History of Rio de Janeiro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When gold starting pouring out of Minas Gerais in the early 1700s, the small and innocuous town of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro turned into the most important port town on the Brazilian coast, even surpassing Salvador in importance. It wasn’t long before the Portuguese Crown took the capital of the colony away from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebraziltravelsite.com/wp/2010/04/17/a-brief-history-of-rio-de-janeiro/</link>
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		<title>Make the best of what you&#8217;ve got&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Brazil, we have a special phrase for this, which says &#8220;quem nao tem cao, caca com gato!&#8221; which means &#8220;if you don&#8217;t have a dog, hunt with a cat.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebraziltravelsite.com/wp/2010/03/21/make-the-best-of-what-youve-got/</link>
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		<title>Rocinha (the little field) now the biggest favela in town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Portuguese, the word rocinha (pronounced ho-seen-yah) a literally means a tract of land that has been cleared for planting. It is also used colloquially to refer to any field or backwoods area and that is exactly what Rocinha was in the late 1800s. It started as a settlement near the sugar plantations where poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copacabana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world’s most famous beach boardwalk, Copacabana gained its greatest fame during Brazil’s cultural boom in the first half of the 20th century. The Copacabana Palace Hotel, formerly a legendary casino, attracted playboys and debutantes from all over the world. Soon this wide strip of white sand and blue waves became the summer playground for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebraziltravelsite.com/wp/2010/03/21/copacabana/</link>
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		<title>Pão de Açúcar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the poverty, congestion, pollution, and other problems here, Rio is unarguably one of the most visually stunning cities in the world. Nowhere is this more apparent than from the top of Pão de Açúcar (Sugar Loaf), which jets out into the bay across from the Botafogo Beach. The gondola going up to Pão de [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebraziltravelsite.com/wp/2010/03/21/pao-de-acucar/</link>
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		<title>Historic Rio: Praça Floriano (Cinilândia)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the golden days of Hollywood, Brazil was experiencing a cultural and economic growth period at the tail end of the coffee boom. Here in Rio, a number of things were occurring, including international recognition of the city, mostly due to the casinos in Copacabana. In the old downtown area, a number of movie houses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebraziltravelsite.com/wp/2010/03/21/historic-rio-praca-floriano-cinilandia/</link>
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		<title>Historic Rio: Praça XV de Novembro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Praça that marks a major turning point in Brazil’s history, moving from a monarchy to a republic, is right here in downtown Rio, in front of the old Imperial Palace (noon&#8211;6:30pm Tuesday&#8211;Sunday) home of the royal family from 1808&#8211;1889. Naturally, the praça was renamed in honor of the occasion, which took place in 1889, [...]]]></description>
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