Southeastern-Southern Brazil Heritage

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The southern part of Brazil, including both the southeastern and southern regions, is distinguishable by its heavily European and Western-based culture with a significant extra-Portuguese European influence, with the southeastern being the region that underwent the heaviest Italian influence, more specifically North Italian as the great majority of the immigrants came from Veneto and adjacent regions, and the south showing a pride in their German heritage brought by immigrants during the XIX and XX century.

Post pictures and anything related to the culture of the south of Brazil.

Rua Das Missões - Blumenau, SC



Gramado, RS









Igreja de São Francisco da Penitência, RJ (Baroque Art)

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Catedral da Sé - São Paulo, SP (Gothic Architecture)







Igreja de São Francisco de Assis - Ouro Preto, MG







Maria Fumaça - Tiradentes, MG

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D. Pedro I monument - Praça Tiradentes, RJ



Independence monument - Ipiranga, SP







Cristo Redentor - Rio de Janeiro, RJ

[JMack]

South-Southeastern Brazil is the only part of the country that could reasonably said to be ''Western''.

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South-Southeastern Brazil is the only part of the country that could reasonably said to be ''Western''.

I agree, the others regions have so much non-European cultural influence to be included in the Western world. The architecture and population mindset is also very distinct.

[JMack]

I agree, the others regions have so much non-European cultural influence to be included in the Western world, the architecture is also very distinct.

Yeah, but I think the elites there at least belong to the ''West'' (most of them are white or predominantly Euro). There's no sense to say someone who's full Portuguese or nearly full isn't ''Western''.

[Bolsonaro2018]

Great thread! Finally a decent thread in our section, I'll start with my favorite state in SE Brazil


Campos do Jordão







Holambra





Old Downtown







Cantareira Mountain



Ouro Preto



Batatais (uncles living there)




Petrópolis



Southern Brazil!

Rock's Cathedral




Curitiba







Countryside



Pato Branco



Blumenau

[KMack]

Very nice photos, well done!

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Carnival in São Paulo.



Carnival in Porto Alegre.



Cathedral interior in Curitiba.



Afro-Brazilian Museum in São Paulo.



Immigrant museum in São Paulo.



Curitiba.



São Paulo.



Rio de Janeiro.



Balneário Camboriu.



Porto Alegre.



Bus in Porto Alegre.

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Languages of the South

Besides Portuguese, there are others languages that were brought to Brazil and developed here under influence of various distinct dialects, inclunding the standard Portuguese, and they are spoken exclusively in the southern fringes of the country. Here are they with a brief description.

Talian

Talian is a dialect of the Venetian language, spoken primarily in the Serra Gaúcha region in the northeast of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. It is also spoken in other parts of Rio Grande do Sul, as well as in parts of Espirito Santo and of Santa Catarina. Despite the similar names, Talian is not derived from standard Italian (usually called italiano gramático or "grammatical Italian" in Brazil), but is mainly a mix of Venetian dialects influenced by other Gallo-Italian languages as well as local Portuguese.



Hunsrückisch Riograndeser

Hunsrückisch is a German dialect spoken in the Hunsrück region of Germany. This mountainous region of Germany has long been an exporter of emigrants to the United States, Brazil, Canada, Australia and other parts of the world. It's now spoken by German descendants in Rio Grande do Sul and others southern areas.



Pomeranian

Pomeranian or Pommeranisch is a dialect of Low Saxon spoken by the Pomeranians and their descendants here in Brazil, specially in Espírito Santo. The language is almost extinct in Pomerania but is still alive and common in Southern Brazil.