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Black Joy, Beauty and Resistance in Bahia

Bahia is often called the sixth region of Africa, and at Feira Preta, Latin America’s largest festival celebrating Black culture and entrepreneurship, bringing together music, fashion, food and art that carry the memory of the…

Reviews

Mangamar: A Family Story Told Through Food

In Salvador de Bahia, one of Brazil's most vibrant cities, on the country's stunning northeastern coast, chefs are choosing to stay – or return – to shape a growing fine-dining scene that draws confidence from regional…

Things That Matter To

Things That Matter to…Edson Damazzo

Known as Bibiu, or as the "Choreographer to the Stars," he is one of Brazil’s best known dancers and choreographers and is a favourite among the country's top artists. Having travelled the world, primarily for…

Culture Guides

Ten Events to Love in São Paulo

This is the city of graffiti, rap battles, poetry slams in the favelas and samba. It is also home to the bailes de favela and the famous fluxosMy, spontaneous street parties where booming speakers and motorbike stunts take over…

Features

Love Letter to Sampa

São Paulo, known as terra da garoa, “the land of drizzle” is Brazil’s largest city, home to over 21 million people. Latin America’s financial and cultural powerhouse, the city pulses with energy, contradictions and stories…

Top 10s...

10 Soul Gatherings in Bahia

In every party in Salvador de Bahia, 'terreiro' or cultural centre, there is a gesture of resistance and beauty that tells Brazil—and the world—that Bahian art is more than expression: it is existence. As long as there…

In-depth Interviews

FINDING MILTON

Milton Nascimento is one of the most influential Brazilian musicians — now in his 80s, he has only recently retired from the stage. Flavia Moraes' documentary 'Milton Bituca Nascimento' is a road movie which…

In-depth Interviews

Brazil’s big beautiful – and still illegal – balloon-making culture

From centuries old traditions Balloon-making developed into a competition between dedicated groups to create the biggest and most beautiful balloons which were released into the sky carrying lights and often fireworks, and then…

Brazilian Sweet Chilli Sauce

I have never been a fan of regular store-bought sweet chilli sauce. Store versions have a funny taste, and the colouring and preservatives put me off. It's true that you can find some better quality 'natural'…

Feijão Tropeiro

The wonderful Daniela Paiva challenged her non-Brazilian colleague Oceana Masterman-Smith, not very familiar with brazilian cooking, to make Feijão Tropeiro, a traditional dish from Minas Gerais, made with beans, bacon, sausage…

Opinion

Brazil: September 7 — A Day of Death

Distinguished Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El Pais. Her latest article is a cry of grief and rage at what President Bolsonaro and his followers have done to their country. She agues…

Features

Brazil Beyond Belief 

 “There is just so much space here!” was one of the most recurring thoughts I had on my trip to Brazil. Perhaps a pretty basic observation given I was visiting the largest country in Latin America. Yet my poor brain, accustomed…

Culture Guides

5 SIGHTS OF SOUTH AMERICA YOU WON'T FORGET

Bored of beaches, banal museums and grotty hotels? Want to do something different this time you go away? South America harbours some of the most breath-taking natural phenomena in the entire world. No tour guide needed, just a…

First Person

SURVIVING BAHIA'S CARNIVAL

Sweaty grabbing men, cheesy electric guitar music, trance-enducing drumming and plenty of piss: how our girl in Salvador de Bahia got lost in the frenzy that was Brazilian Carnival 2010 and managed to come out to tell the tale.