Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Porto Alegre, Brazil

The Suez Battalion Monument, regionally known as the UN Monument and/or the Blue Helmet Monument, is a national military monument located in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, and pays tribute to the soldiers from Rio Grande do Sul involved in the UN peacekeeping missions in the Middle East in 1959. These soldiers are known to belong to the Suez battalion.

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The Monument to the Azoreans is a public art monument in full time exhibition in Porto Alegre, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in honor of the arrival of the first sixty Azorean couples that populated the city in 1752. It was inaugurated on March 26, 1974, in the city's 206th anniversary. The monument is 17 meters high and 24 meters wide.

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Júlio de Castilhos Museum is a museum located in the city of Porto Alegre. It is the oldest museum in Rio Grande do Sul state.

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The Monument to Júlio de Castilhos is a Brazilian monument, located in Praça da Matriz, in the center of Porto Alegre, honoring the ruler Júlio de Castilhos, founder of a long political tradition associated with positivism.

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Church of Our Lady of Pain, Church of Our Lady of the Pain, or Chapela of Our Lady of the Pain, can refer to a:Igreja of Our Lady of the Pain (Chamusca) - in Portugal Church of Our Lady of Pain - in the Azores Church of Our Lady of Pain (Macao) - China Church of Our Lady of Pain (Paraty) - Brazil Church of Our Lady of Pain in Portugal Church of Holy Pain in Brazil Basilica Minor of Our Lady of Pain - in Porto Alegre, Brazil

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The Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art is an art museum in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. It is located in the centre of Porto Alegre. Its eclectic building, national heritage, is one of the most noteworthy historic buildings in Porto Alegre. Its design is usually attributed to Theodor Wiederspahn, a German-Brazilian architect, although important local historian and artist Fernando Corona ascribes it to Germano Gundlach.

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Farol Santander Porto Alegre, formerly known as Santander Cultural, is a Brazilian cultural center run by Banco Santander. It is located in a historic building in Alfândega Square, in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul. It has been listed as a heritage site by IPHAE.

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The Rio Grande do Sul Memorial is a cultural center in Porto Alegre, housed in a historic property located in Alfândega Square, in the city's historic center. It is a building listed as historical heritage by the City Hall and by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage.

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The Monument to the Baron of Rio Branco is a public monument erected in Praça da Alfândega, in the center of the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, in front of the Memorial of Rio Grande do Sul.

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The Monument to General Osório is a public monument located in Praça da Alfândega, in downtown Porto Alegre, erected in honor of Manuel Luís Osório, patron of the Brazilian Army Cavalry and hero of the Paraguayan War.

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The Rio Grande do Sul Electricity Museum (Mergs) is a Brazilian museum, located in the city of Porto Alegre. It occupies the second floor of Espaço Força e Luz, installed in a building built between 1926 and 1928 by engineer Adolfo Stern, in Rua dos Andradas, downtown Porto Alegre. The building has eclectic style, but with French influence from the early twentieth century, having been listed in 1994 by the Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage of the State of Rio Grande do Sul.

Wikipedia: Museu da Eletricidade do Rio Grande do Sul (PT)

The Democratic Corner is one of the main popular meeting points in the city of Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul.

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The Talavera de La Reina Fountain is an important monument in the city of Porto Alegre.

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Largo Glênio Peres is a public space in the city of Porto Alegre. It is located in the city centre, in front of the public market and Praça XV de Novembro.

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The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, better known as the Church of the Rosary, is a Catholic church located in the historic center of the city of Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The original church was listed by the National Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage, along with its collection, but the listing was reversed in 1951 for the construction of a new church.

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The Monument to the Count of Porto Alegre is a public monument in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. It is located in Praça Conde de Porto Alegre and is dedicated to Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre, combatant in the Cisplatine War, in the Farroupilha Revolution and in the War against Oribe and Rosas, and hero of the Battle of Tuiuti, which took place during the Paraguayan War.

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Argentina Square is a square located in Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is next to the Santa Casa de Misericórdia of Porto Alegre, between João Pessoa Avenue and the building of the UFRGS School of Engineering.

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The Church of Our Lady of the Conception is a temple of the Catholic Church located on Independência Avenue, in front of the Dom Sebastião Square, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It is one of the oldest churches in the city and the one that best preserves its original appearance, containing a rich internal decoration in gilded woodcarving and statuary, besides being a listed property by the City Hall.

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The French Fountain, also known as Imperial Fountain, is a cast iron fountain located in Farroupilha Park, the main public park of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Created by sculptor Carrier-Belleuse and dated 1866, was manufactured in France and imported to Porto Alegre along with six other fountains. With the disappearance without explanation of the other fountains in the late nineteenth century, the French source became the only remnant of that period that remains to this day. Originally it was in Alfândega Square, in front of the old customs building, being later transferred to Paradise Square, remaining until 1925, when again would change places, now to Pereira Parobé Square, a square that existed next to Porto Alegre Public Market, where today there is the Pereira Parobé Bus Terminal. After the 1941 flood, it was transferred to its current place in the European corner of Farroupilha Park.

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The Expeditionary Monument is a historical monument of the city of Porto Alegre, and was inaugurated in 1957. The idea for the monument was launched by the PEOPLE MAIL NEWSPAPER, which generated a public tender for the elaboration of a triumph bow, Where the project of Antonio Caringi, author also of the statue of the loop, symbol of Porto Alegre.

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