Cairù is the second city founded by the Portuguese in Brazil in 1608. It is currently the only municipality of the islands nearby and it has 8,000 inhabitants, while all the inhabitants of the islands of Tinharè (the largest, where Morro de Sao Paulo is), Cairù and Boipeba, are about 25,000.
In Cairù there is a monastery...
Many people think I'm rich, because I travel a lot, but that's not true. I'm a regular person with a regular job that is my only source of income. However, these people who tell me that I am rich waste money every day, much more than they think. Probably, I spend every year in total far less money than them despite face many trips. I try only to follow the...
The architectural centerpiece of Chisinau, the Metropolitan Cathedral (Catedrala Nașterea Domnului), was built in 1836 at the initiative of Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, the governor of New Russia and Metropolitan of Bessarabia Gabriel Banulescu-Bodoni. The Cathedral was designed by Avraam Melnikov. It is one of the best examples of Russian architecture in Mol...