Bad weather landing.



What a difference a day makes!

Praia do Cabo Branco.















Praia do Cabo Branco.





The eastern tip of South America.







Estacao Cabo Branco science center (by Oscar Niemeyer).

Farol do Cabo Branco, marked as the eastern end of the Americas.

Praia do Penha.

Praia do Seixas is also Ponta do Seixas - the true easternmost point of north, central and south America.
Location is 34 deg 47 min 36 sec West and 7 deg 9 min 18 sec South according to GoogleMaps.
From here it is closer to Africa than to Porto Alegre.
Praia do Seixas.

Africa is that way.

The futuristic Hotel Tambau.



Praia Tambau.





Nice, clean, cheap local buses.

Parque Solon de Lucena, a.k.a. Lagoa.




Palacio da Redencao.

Praca Joao Pessoa.



Assembleia Legislativa.

Tribunal de Justica.



Praca Vidal de Negreiros, with Palace Hotel now a shopping center.

Entering the Centro Historico.

Nice sidewalks.

Igreja de Sao Francisco, built around year 1589.





It is all carved in wood.



Angel faces abound.

Amazing ceilings everywhere.



Sao Francisco himself, with stigmata wounds and all.

Choir mezzanine.

Huge wall tiles, with not so nice treatment of slaves.

Half-circular ceiling with tempters and sins.





Mezzanine view.





Desolate streets on a Monday.

B&B&B - Bed and Breakfast, and Bar?

Catedral Nossa Senhora das Neves.



Associacao Commercial.

Praca Anthenor Navarro.

mmm, colorful.



Igreja de Sao Pedro.



The Portuguese used Rio Paraiba when founding the city in year 1585.

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