Acre Travel Guide |
Our overview of the state of Acre.
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J. Borges: Woodcut Print Artist from Bezerros, Pernambuco |
At kilometer 106 on the Luiz Gonzaga Highway (BR 232) stands a whitewashed building called the “Casa de Cultura Serra Negra.” Dank and cluttered inside, with its roadside location, it is reminiscent of an auto mechanics shop. For decades it served as Borges’ atelier and now houses children, nephews and cousins who followed him into the chapbook business. Borges has found new digs. Roomier and with better lighting, it still could pass for a simple country home. Visitors can purchase chapbooks, prints and original woodblock molds by a multi-talented artist whose work has been featured in exhibitions at places like Zurich’s Helmhaus Museum. Scholars point to Borges’ work to help explain why Brazil maintains a vibrant woodblock print tradition. Visitors to the workshop can get a glimpse of a vintage mechanical printing machine and, if they’re lucky, see the artist at work carving his next mold.
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Fishing in the Amazon with Pepper and Flávio |
BrazilMax’s Bill Hinchberger joins a fishing expedition in the Amazon.
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Lajedo do Pai Mateus: Join Film Crews in the Backlands of Paraíba |
The Cariri region’s awe-inspiring landscape, strewn with granite boulders, is compared to Australia’s Devils Marbles, Namibia’s Erongo Mountains and Algeria’s Hoggar Mountains. It culminates in the Lajedo do Pai Mateus, an upside-down bowl topped by a rock called “the helmet.” Cariri is also home to some of Brazil’s most important archeological artifacts. One can almost imagine the legendary bandits of the Brazilian northeast roaming these ranges – as they have many times on the big screen. Indeed the area has become increasingly popular with film location scouts.
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Brazil on Horseback: A Journey Through the Serra Gaúcha |
When in gaúcho country, BrazilMax does as the gaúchos. Join us on a cross-country horseback ride to view the waterfalls, rivers, and flat-topped Paraná pine tree forests of the Serra Gaúcha in Rio Grande do Sul.
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Serra da Abelha Ecological Reserve: Locals Protect the Forest |
Before it became fashionable to wed the interests of the environment to those of the poor, the members of the little community of Santa Cruz dos Pinhais had established a de facto barrier to logging by defending their homesteading rights as small subsistence farmers. Their battle continues.
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