BAUERNFEST = FARMERPARTY

My pics form beautiful celebration of German immigrants and their descendants in Petropolis, a mountain cold city, next to city of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil :cheers:

Petrópolis populacion: 320.000
* Foristas brasileiros, sintam-se a vontade para colocar mais fotos da cidade de Petrópolis ;)

HISTORY
The town's name ("city of Peter") honors Emperor Pedro II, the nation's second monarch. The city was the summer residence of the Brazilian Emperors and aristocrats in the 19th century, and was the official capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro between 1894 and 1903.

The town's origins can be traced to Bernardo Soares de Proença, who in 1720 opened an alternative route between Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, across the Serra da Estrela. While traveling to Minas Gerais along this route, Emperor Pedro I found the region's climate pleasant, so in 1830 he bought a farm, and had his Summer Palace built there, but he never saw it finished, since he stepped down from the trone. Other Brazilian aristocrats eventually followed suit.

Under his successor Pedro II, German farmers from the Rhineland were encouraged to immigrate and to settle on the Emperor's outlying lands, to help give the Palace a charming urban setting. The settlement of Petrópolis was founded on March 16, 1843, being promoted to district in 1844 and finally city in 1857. The road connecting the city to Rio de Janeiro was opened in 1910 and paved in 1928.

WIKIPEDIA

Party:
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CITY
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Quitandinha Palace
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Santos Dumont House
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Khoeler Avenue
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Catholic Cathedral
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Araucária - Mountain tree
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Church and ufo (???)
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Historical building
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14 Bis Square
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Another Square
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36 - Imperial Summer Palace - Pic from wikipedia
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/PetropolisMuseuImperial1-CCBYSA.jpg
37 - By Mrdoctor - flickr
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38 - By Raul Lisboa - flickr - Barão de Mauá House - Important representative of the imperial aristocracy
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Hope you like :)

pretty cool. thanks for the pics

yeah! bauernfest (=farmerparty) rulez :banana:
nice pics&greetings from germany
:cheers:

^^ Thank you for the comments :)

Very cool the Bauernfest! i want to go next year! and Petrópolis is a charming and beautiful city! just 1 hour from Rio de Janeiro

Really nice pics! You caught very well that special atmosphere of Petrópolis! :)

I have been there.

Thanks a lot :okay:

I've been there! It's a very nice festival!
And Petrópolis is so beautiful! The mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state only has beautiful cities!

^^ That's pretty cool! Germany tourists visit a lot Bauernfest

German festival in an exotic location... interesting!

would be plenty of beers during the proceeding?

^^ Yeah, off course :)

that's pretty funny :lol:

looks nice

Il fantastico :applause:

I wanna go there, immediately! Hope they're serving original German (wheat) beer.

Greets from the Northeast of Deutschland!