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Essa pequena cidade situada no meio da Serra do Mar, entre as cidades de Taubaté e Ubatuba, é praticamente um museu a céu aberto. Isso porque o seu bem conservado conjunto arquitetônico, que data do século XIX e início do século XX, foi tombado pelo governo paulista para que seja preservada toda a sua riqueza histórica e sua beleza.
De forte influência católica e com seu auge econômico durante o século XIX, o folclore de São Luiz do Paraitinga mistura influências culturais dos escravos com os rituais cristãos. A Festa do Divino, realizada anualmente 50 dias após a Páscoa, no dia de Pentecostes, é formada por apresentações de grupos de moçambiques, jongo e congadas intercaladas com procissões, rezas e missas.
A cidade também é muito procurada pelos praticantes de esportes de aventura. Privilegiada, em São Luiz do Paraitinga podemos encontrar trilhas para mountain bike, caminhada e cavalgada, trechos de prática do arborismo e rafting no Rio Paraibuna.
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Here's your soundtrack. Okay, maybe they're not exactly brazillian but their music is awesome and their live shows legendary.Now, Brazil covers almost half of South America and its Amazon rainforest is the world's largest jungle... which is rapidly getting cut down. The country is basically one giant botanical garden with some bangin' cities on its edges.Brazil was colonized in 1808 by the royal court of Portugal, which was fleeing Napolean's troops. They didn't stay long, and Brazil won its independence in 1822.Its biggest city, Sao Paulo, is the financial hub of South America. Brazil is the "b" in BRIC -- Brazil, Russia, India and China. These four were labeled the world's fastest developing large economies in the year 2001.Brazil is known for three things: amazingly beautiful women, carnival, and Pele -- King of Football, Athlete of the Century, football ambassador of the world and a declared national treasure.Brazillians can tell foreigners a mile away, by the way their hips move. Samba is built into the soul of brazil and carnival is when it bursts out into twenty-four hour undying explosions of sound on every street.This picture of mask diving at the Taipus reefs makes me shed hot and salty tears all over my calendar, which is set on "January" right now.Text by Steve Smith.
