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The medieval plate armour brought to Brazil in 1531 by the Portuguese noble Martim Afonso de Souza to be used in combats against indians and corsairs, the device had showed useless due the cold weather and another issues. As a family heirloom the armour was used as decoration piece inside fortifications during the XVI century. Currently it is exposed inside the museum.
The Forte de São João de Bertioga (Saint John of Bertioga Fort in Portuguese), where the armour is displayed, is an ancient Portuguese fortification at the entrance of the Bertioga Channel, raised as a palisade in 1560, during the Brazilian colonial era, as a defense device agains atacks from indians and pirates as well. In the ends of XVII century a new stone fort was build over the palisade with the job had been finished in 1710. Today the Fort is one of the most important cultural and historica site in Bertioga and it is a museum dedicated tho the colonial and indian heritage of Bertioga town.
Here's your soundtrack. Okay, maybe they're not exactly brazillian but their music is awesome and their live shows legendary.Now, Brazil covers almost half of South America and its Amazon rainforest is the world's largest jungle... which is rapidly getting cut down. The country is basically one giant botanical garden with some bangin' cities on its edges.Brazil was colonized in 1808 by the royal court of Portugal, which was fleeing Napolean's troops. They didn't stay long, and Brazil won its independence in 1822.Its biggest city, Sao Paulo, is the financial hub of South America. Brazil is the "b" in BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. These four were labeled the world's fastest developing large economies in the year 2001.Brazil is known for three things: amazingly beautiful women, carnival, and Pele -- King of Football, Athlete of the Century, football ambassador of the world and a declared national treasure.Brazillians can tell foreigners a mile away, by the way their hips move. Samba is built into the soul of brazil and carnival is when it bursts out into twenty-four hour undying explosions of sound on every street.This picture of mask diving at the Taipus reefs makes me shed hot and salty tears all over my calendar, which is set on "January" right now.Text by Steve Smith.
