THE MYSTERY AND SECRECTS OF LOVE´S ISLAND ,PORTUGUESE TILE´S CAPITAL AND BRAZILIAN JAMAICA by DAWENE MENEZES ARAUJO

Curiosities of São Luís

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1 – São Luís is one of the three capitals of Brazilian states that are located on an island.
2 – São Luís is the only Brazilian capital that was not born Portuguese
3 – São Luís has one of the largest tidal variations in the world
4 – São Luís is known as the capital of reggae or “Jamaica Brasileira”
5 – Maranhão cuisine can be very different from the rest of the northeast
6 – São João in the city of São Luís is a different experience from the rest of the country
7 – Maranhense does not “take a bath”. Maranhense "bathes".
8 – São Luís is known as the City of Tiles

Convent of Merces

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The Convento das Mercês, which was placed under the invocation of Nossa Senhora da Assunção, although the people did not call it that way, began to be built in 1654, when the mercedarians João Cerveira (from Alcântara from Maranhão) and Marcos Natividade, arrived in São Luís. from Belém, who joined the friars Manoel de Assunção and Antônio Nolasco, as well as the layman João das Mercês. It was built there in rammed earth covered with straw. The following year, on additional land, they rebuilt the facilities in stone and lime, building the chancel.

CALHAU BEACH

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SÃO LUÍS HISTORICAL CENTER

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São Luís was founded by the French in 1612. ... The historic center of São Luís has around four thousand properties listed by the Union and maintains the urban layout of the 18th century intact. The place is made up of homogeneous sets of civil architecture, reminiscent of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Joshua Montello Culture House

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The Casa de Cultura Josué Montello is intended to promote studies, research and works in the fields of literature, arts, social sciences, history, geography, contributing to the preservation of the memory and artistic and cultural production of the State. It has a bibliographic, archival and museological collection, with 90% donated by the Maranhão writer Josué Montello to the government of Maranhão.

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