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Belém , is a Brazilian city, the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country's north. It is the gateway to the Amazon River with a busy port, airport, and bus/coach station. Belém lies approximately 100 km upriver from the Atlantic Ocean, on the Pará River, which is part of the greater Amazon River system, separated from the larger part of the Amazon delta by Ilha de Marajó . With an estimated population of 1,439,561 people — or 2,249,405, considering its metropolitan area — it is the 11th most populous city in Brazil, as well as the 16th by economic relevance. It is the second largest in the North Region, second only to Manau...
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  • 2. Basilica de Nossa Senhora de Nazare Belem
    The Basilica of Our Lady of Nazareth of Exile Also Basilica of Belém Is a Catholic temple that began to be built in 1909, in the place where the image of the Virgin of Nazareth was found by Plácido José de Souza in the city of Belém, state of Pará, on the banks of the Murututu Igarapé in Brazil.The current temple, marked by several architectural styles, whose strengths are neoclassical and eclectic, began to be built in 1909, with the laying of its cornerstone on October 24 of that year by the then Archbishop of Belem Santino Maria Coutinho. It was declared a basilica in 1923 and on May 31, 2006, elevated to the status of the Archdiocesan Marian Sanctuary, becoming the Basilica Sanctuary of the Virgin of Nazareth.
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  • 4. Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi Belem
    The Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi is a Brazilian research institution and museum located in the city of Belém, state of Pará. It was founded in 1866 by Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna as the Pará Museum of Natural History and Ethnography, and was later named in honor of Swiss naturalist Émil August Goeldi, who reorganized the institution and was its director from 1894 to 1905. It is open to the public from 9:00 to 17:00 h, daily except Mondays.
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  • 6. Mercado Ver-o-Peso Belem
    Ver-o-peso market is a market hall in Belém, Brazil located at Guajará Bay riverside. It is called Ver-o-Peso following a colonial era tradition, since the tax collector's main post was located there, which was called Casa do Haver-o-peso . It was in the Haver-o-peso house that the taxes over goods brought from the Amazon forests, rivers and countryside should be paid to the Portuguese crown, but only after their weight was measured, hence the name, which later suffered a contraction. Nowadays, the Ver-o-peso complex contains the Açaí Fair, a free open market where açaí berry merchants sell the fruit in natura for açaí juice shops, the Clock Square, with an iron-cast clock tower brought from England, the Ver-o-peso docks, where native fishes from Amazon are unloaded from boats and ...
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  • 8. Forte do Presepio Belem
    Forte do Presépio is a fort located in Belém, Pará in Brazil.
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  • 11. Belem Metropolitan Cathedral Belem
    Belém , is a Brazilian city, the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country's north. It is the gateway to the Amazon River with a busy port, airport, and bus/coach station. Belém lies approximately 100 km upriver from the Atlantic Ocean, on the Pará River, which is part of the greater Amazon River system, separated from the larger part of the Amazon delta by Ilha de Marajó . With an estimated population of 1,439,561 people — or 2,249,405, considering its metropolitan area — it is the 11th most populous city in Brazil, as well as the 16th by economic relevance. It is the second largest in the North Region, second only to Manaus, in the state of Amazonas. Founded in 1616 by the Kingdom of Portugal, Belém was the first European colony on the Amazon but did not beco...
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  • 14. Church of Sao Joao Batista Belem
    The Catholic Church in Brazil is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome, and the influential National Conference of Bishops of Brazil , composed by over 400 primary and auxiliary bishops and archbishops. There are over 250 dioceses and other territorial jurisdictions in Brazil. The primate of Brazil is Dom Murilo Ramos Krieger. The Catholic Church is the largest denomination in the country, where 130 million people, or 64.6% of the Brazilian population, are self-declared Catholics. These figures makes Brazil the single country with the largest Catholic community in the world.
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