{"id":986,"date":"2008-12-20T12:12:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T11:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icbie.net\/blog\/?p=986"},"modified":"2008-12-20T12:12:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T11:12:58","slug":"more-stories-from-paranagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/more-stories-from-paranagua\/","title":{"rendered":"More Stories from Paranagu\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friend Paranagu\u00e1 has become the ICBIE’s most assiduous photo-reporter-tour guide-local historian.\u00a0 We are grateful for his beautiful descriptions of the local sights and scenes. (English translation below)<\/em><\/p>\n

Um fato me chamou a aten\u00e7\u00e3o em Danielle: o seu fasc\u00ednio pela fotografia! Tamb\u00e9m gosto desta arte. O v\u00edcio \u00e9 tanto que ando com a m\u00e1quina a tiracolo, fazendo jus ao t\u00edtulo de \u201cobservador atento\u201d, colocado pelo saudoso amigo jornalista Gerson de Sousa. Entretanto, ele ganhou para mim: n\u00e3o perdeu um lance, um detalhe sequer. A esse respeito, Pietro me fez um coment\u00e1rio: Lembra-se da nossa viagem a Europa? Voc\u00ea queria registrar tudo que via de interessante. Ele faz o mesmo! \u00c9 verdade, concordei!<\/p>\n

\"Cachoeira\"<\/a><\/p>\n

No final da tarde do s\u00e1bado (15), viajei com Pietro e Danielle, atendendo ao meu convite para curtir o fim de semana no s\u00edtio em Santo Amaro. Fizemos uma parada de alguns minutos na principal pra\u00e7a da cidade, a fim de que Danielle fotografasse os casar\u00f5es antigos e a igreja de Nossa Senhora da Purifica\u00e7\u00e3o, padroeira de Santo Amaro. Ele tamb\u00e9m conheceu a casa onde mora Dona Can\u00f4, m\u00e3e dos irm\u00e3os Maria Beth\u00e2nia e Caetano Veloso. J\u00e1 era noite quando chegamos ao nosso destino. Minha mulher Shirley e as princesinhas Iamani e Irani, fizeram as honras da casa. A recep\u00e7\u00e3o foi calorosa! S\u00f3 faltou a banda de m\u00fasica para receber os convidados!<\/p>\n

Domingo bem cedo, Danielle j\u00e1 estava a minha espera para um giro pela \u00e1rea do s\u00edtio. Ele ficou impressionado com as variedades de frutas cultivadas (abacate, pitanga, abacaxi, caju, cacau, biribiri, carambola, sapoti, entre outras), al\u00e9m de flores silvestres, cravo e do urucum \u2013 um tipo de semente utilizado pelos \u00edndios para pintura do corpo e bastante usado como corante em alguns pratos culin\u00e1rios. Ap\u00f3s o descanso do caf\u00e9, fizemos um passeio a cavalo pela redondeza. Pietro ficou apreensivo pelo fato de ser a primeira vez que Danielle montava em um cavalo. Nessas situa\u00e7\u00f5es, procuro sempre manter os animais em marcha lenta durante o percurso, justamente para n\u00e3o provocar dores no corpo do visitante.<\/p>\n

\"Daniele<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Horseback<\/a><\/p>\n

No per\u00edodo da tarde, Shirley nos acompanhou na visita que fizemos a Cachoeira e S\u00e3o F\u00e9lix. Por ser sanfelista, ela teve a incumb\u00eancia de ser o nosso guia tur\u00edstico em sua terra natal. Durante o percurso observei que Danielle folheava um livro, n\u00e3o sei bem se era germ\u00e2nico ou italiano, mostrando as p\u00e1ginas com informa\u00e7\u00f5es e roteiros dos pontos tur\u00edsticos de Cachoeira que gostaria de conhecer.
\nAo descer a serra, a vis\u00e3o \u00e9 cinematogr\u00e1fica. As duas cidades s\u00e3o separadas pelo Rio Paragua\u00e7u. A ponte de ferro constru\u00edda por D. Pedro I \u00e9 o principal acesso que liga as cidades de Cachoeira, S\u00e3o Felix, Maragojipe e Muritiba, al\u00e9m da Regi\u00e3o Sul do estado, atrav\u00e9s da BR-101. A primeira parada em Cachoeira foi na Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Ajuda. Nesse dia, estava sendo organizado um cortejo religioso para lavagem do adro da igreja. Baianas vestidas com seus trajes t\u00edpicos, carregando nos bra\u00e7os potes de barro com flores e \u00e1gua perfumada, fi\u00e9is e pessoas vindas de outras cidades, aguardavam a banda de p\u00edfaros para o in\u00edcio da lavagem. Veja detalhes no www.festadaajuda2008.blogspot.com.br <\/a><\/p>\n

A pr\u00f3xima parada foi no centro da cidade. Decidimos fazer o circuito a p\u00e9, a fim de deixar Danielle mais \u00e0 vontade para fotografar as fachadas de casar\u00f5es, igrejas e conventos, valiosas pe\u00e7as da arquitetura de influ\u00eancia barroca que ainda se conserva: Santa Casa da Miseric\u00f3rdia (s\u00e9culo XVIII); Capela de Santa B\u00e1rbara; Chafariz Municipal (s\u00e9culo XIX); Matriz do Ros\u00e1rio; Irmandade da Boa Morte; Convento Nossa Senhora do Carmo, al\u00e9m de outras constru\u00e7\u00f5es importantes.<\/p>\n

\"Panorama\"<\/a> \"Cachoeira\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Procession\"<\/a> \"Cachoeira\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cachoeira\"<\/a> \"Cachoeira\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cachoeira\"<\/a> \"Cachoeira\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Em S\u00e3o F\u00e9lix, passamos em frente do Centro Cultural Dannemann, fundado em 1989 – A Dannemann S.A. foi criada pelo alem\u00e3o Gerard Danne, em 1873 – da resid\u00eancia de Hansen Bahia. Visitamos a Fonte Milagrosa de Santa B\u00e1rbara, que atrai um grande n\u00famero de fi\u00e9is. O auge das comemora\u00e7\u00f5es \u00e9 dia 4 de dezembro, na Festa de Santa B\u00e1rbara. Shirley ainda nos conduziu at\u00e9 um dos pontos mais alto da rodovia que liga a cidade de Muritiba, para um clic da vis\u00e3o panor\u00e2mica das duas cidades.<\/p>\n

No retorno para Cachoeira encontramos o cortejo embalado pelo ritmo do Ax\u00e9 music, arrastando uma multid\u00e3o pessoas pelas ruas da cidade. Eu e Danielle aproveitamos para acompanhar o cortejo e captar com as nossas lentes, belas imagens ricas de cores, pessoas e fantasias. Exaustos devido \u00e0 caminhada e o calor insuport\u00e1vel, fomos ao encontro de Pietro e Shirley, que nos aguardavam em frente a um restaurante, sentados a sombra de uma \u00e1rvore a beira do cais do Rio Paragua\u00e7u. Pedimos dois tira-gostos: mani\u00e7oba, sugest\u00e3o de Pietro, e carne-do-sol. Shirley me confessou depois que ele queria experimentar a iguaria. Mani\u00e7oba \u00e9 um tipo de culin\u00e1ria do Par\u00e1, preparado com a folha da mandioca triturada, temperos, carnes secas e verdes e v\u00edsceras d\u00f3i boi e do porco. Assemelha-se muito com a feijoada completa. Os tr\u00eas degustaram com muito apetite. Como o prato n\u00e3o \u00e9 o meu forte, escolhi carne-de-sol.<\/p>\n

Retornamos para Salvador na segunda pela manh\u00e3. Na passagem por Santo Amaro, levamos Danielle para conhecer a feira, um local bastante visitado pelos turistas. Tradicionalmente a segunda-feira \u00e9 o dia em que os santamarenses aproveitam para fazer as compras. Encontra-se de tudo. \u00c9 uma atra\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 parte. Para n\u00e3o perder o h\u00e1bito, Danielle aumentou o seu acervo fotogr\u00e1fico com as variedades de produtos expostos no local.<\/p>\n

O nosso car\u00edssimo Danielle Messina retornou para Frankfurt deixando saudades. Durante a sua perman\u00eancia em Salvador, mantive contato v\u00e1rias vezes no ICBIE, al\u00e9m de outras oportunidades, conversando diferentes assuntos, inclusive sobre suas viagens. Apesar do pouco dom\u00ednio da l\u00edngua italiana (pretendo retornar \u00e0s aulas com a Professora Marlene), deu para entender muitas coisas. Foi uma experi\u00eancia muito interessante!<\/p>\n

Txt e fotos: JFParanagu\u00e1.
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\nThere was one thing about Daniele that caught my attention: his passion for photography!\u00a0 We both love that art.\u00a0 It’s so deep that we always have a camera hanging from our necks, justifying the title of “attentive observer”, a term coined to describe the much missed journalist friend Gerson de Sousa.\u00a0 At any rate, he beat me: he never missed a shot or a tiny detail.\u00a0 In respect to that, Pietro commented to me, “Remember our trip to Europe?\u00a0 You wanted to capture every little thing that was interesting.\u00a0 He’s the same!” That’s the truth, I agreed!<\/p>\n

In the late afternoon of Saturday the 15th, I set off with Pietro and Daniele, keeping my promise for a delightful weekend trip to Santo Amaro.\u00a0 We took a stroll for a few minutes in the main square of the city, so Daniele could photograph the old palaces and the church of Santo Amaro’s patron saint, Nossa Senhora da Purifica\u00e7\u00e3o. He was also able to see the house of Dona Can\u00f4, the mother of the siblings Maria Beth\u00e2nia and Caetano Veloso.\u00a0\u00a0 By the time we reached our destination, night had fallen.\u00a0 My wife Shirley and the young princesses Iamani and Irani welcomed us to the house.\u00a0 The reception was a warm one!\u00a0 The only thing that was missing was a brass band to announce the arrival of the guests!<\/p>\n

Early Sunday morning, Daniele was ready and waiting for me to take him for a tour of the environs.\u00a0 He was struck by the variety of cultivated fruits (abacate, pitanga, abacaxi, caju, cacau, biribiri, carambola, sapoti, among others), as well as the wild flowers, carnations and some urucum – a kind of plant used by the indios for body paint and commonly used as a spice in some recipes.\u00a0 After a coffee break, we took a horse ride around the property.\u00a0 Pietro was worried because it was the first time that Daniele went horseback riding.\u00a0 In that case, I always keep a slow pace for the ride, to avoid any damages to the body of the guest.<\/p>\n

During the afternoon, Shirley accompanied us on the visit we made to Cachoeira and S\u00e3o F\u00e9lix. As a native sanfelista<\/em>, she had to bear the responsibility of guiding us around her home town.\u00a0 During the excursion, I noticed that Daniele was consulting a book, I don’t know if it was in Italian or German, looking at the pages with information and tourist itineraries to the places that he wanted to see.<\/p>\n

As evening fell, the vistas were cinematographic.\u00a0 The two cities are separated by the Paragua\u00e7u river.\u00a0 An iron bridge built by Dom Pedro I is the principal connection between the cities of Cachoeira, S\u00e3o Felix, Maragojipe and Muritiba, on the other side in the southern region of the state, along the BR-101 highway. The first stop in Cachoeira was the Church of Nossa Senhora da Ajuda. On that day, they had organized a religious procession for the washing of the approach to the church.\u00a0 Bahian women dressed in their typical outfits, carrying in their arms clay pots full of flowers and perfumed water, along with worshipers and people from other cities, watched as a band of flutists played for the start of the washing.\u00a0 To see more details: www.festadaajuda2008.blogspot.com.br<\/a><\/p>\n

The next stop was in the city center.\u00a0 We decided to take a tour on foot, so Daniele could take all the photos he wanted of facades of palaces, churches and convents, worthy pieces of baroque architecture such as the Santa Casa da Miseric\u00f3rdia (s\u00e9culo XVIII); Capela de Santa B\u00e1rbara; Chafariz Municipal (19th century);\u00a0 Matriz do Ros\u00e1rio; Irmandade da Boa Morte; Convento Nossa Senhora do Carmo, and other important buildings.<\/p>\n

In S\u00e3o F\u00e9lix, we passed in front of the the Dannemann Cultural Center, founded in 1989 \u2014 the Danneman company was created by the German Gerard Danne, in 1873 \u2014 in the residence of Hansen Bahia. We visited the Fonte Milagrosa de Santa B\u00e1rbara, that attracts a great number of pilgrims.\u00a0 The peak of the pilgrimages comes on the 4th of December, the Feast of Santa B\u00e1rbara. Shirley helped us to find one of the highest places on the road to Muritiba, for a shot of the panoramic view of the two cities.<\/p>\n

On the way back to Cachoeira we encountered a parade that was dancing to the rhythms of Ax\u00e9 music, with crowds of people filling the streets of the city.\u00a0 Daniele and I went along with the throng, capturing beautiful images full of choruses, people and fantasies. Exhausted after the long walk in the insupportable heat, we found Pietro and Shirley, who were in front of a restaurant, sitting in the shade of a tree on a dock along the banks of the Paragua\u00e7u river. We ordered two specialties: mani\u00e7oba, suggested by Pietro, and carne-do-sol. Shirley later confessed to me that she wanted to try the delicacy.\u00a0 Mani\u00e7oba is a specialty of Par\u00e1, prepared with a leaf of chopped cassava, seasonings, dried meats, greens and the innards of ox and pig.\u00a0 It is a lot like a complete feijoada.\u00a0 The three of them devoured it with great appetite.\u00a0 Seeing as the plate is not one of my favorites, I chose the carne-de-sol.<\/p>\n

We returned to Salvador on Monday morning.\u00a0 On the road from Santo Amaro, we took Daniele to a market, a place often visited by tourists.\u00a0 Traditionally, Monday is the day that the santamarenses<\/em> dedicate to shopping.\u00a0 You can find almost everything.\u00a0 It’s a unique attraction.\u00a0 So as not to loose the habit, Daniele added to his mass of photos, with all the varieties of products that were displayed.<\/p>\n

Our dear Daniele Messina returned to Frankfurt full of nostalgia.\u00a0 During his stay in Salvador, I saw him a number of times at the ICBIE and other times, and we talked about a lot of things, including his travels.\u00a0 I was hindered\u00a0 by my approximate knowledge of Italian (I intend to return to the classroom of Professora Marlene), and it was hard to understand a whole lot.\u00a0 It was a really interesting experience!<\/p>\n

Text and photos: JFParanagu\u00e1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our friend Paranagu\u00e1 has become the ICBIE’s most assiduous photo-reporter-tour guide-local historian.\u00a0 We are grateful for his beautiful descriptions of the local sights and scenes. (English translation below) Um fato me chamou a aten\u00e7\u00e3o em Danielle: o seu fasc\u00ednio pela fotografia! Tamb\u00e9m gosto desta arte. O v\u00edcio \u00e9 tanto que ando com a m\u00e1quina a tiracolo, fazendo jus ao t\u00edtulo de \u201cobservador atento\u201d, colocado pelo saudoso amigo jornalista Gerson de Sousa. Entretanto, ele ganhou para mim: n\u00e3o perdeu um lance, um detalhe sequer. A esse respeito, Pietro me fez um coment\u00e1rio: Lembra-se da nossa viagem a Europa? Voc\u00ea queria registrar tudo que via de interessante. Ele faz o mesmo! \u00c9 verdade, concordei! No final da tarde do s\u00e1bado (15), viajei com Pietro e Danielle, atendendo ao meu convite para curtir o fim de semana no s\u00edtio em Santo Amaro. Fizemos uma parada de alguns minutos na principal pra\u00e7a da cidade, a fim de que Danielle fotografasse os casar\u00f5es antigos e a igreja de Nossa Senhora da Purifica\u00e7\u00e3o, padroeira de Santo Amaro. Ele tamb\u00e9m conheceu a casa onde mora Dona Can\u00f4, m\u00e3e dos irm\u00e3os Maria Beth\u00e2nia e Caetano Veloso. J\u00e1 era noite quando chegamos ao nosso destino. Minha mulher Shirley e…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-icbie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}