Porto Velho is the capital of the Brazilian state of Rondônia, in the upper Amazon River basin. The population is 548,952 people. Located on the border of Rondônia and the state of Amazonas, the town is an important trading center for cassiterite, the mining of which represents the most important economic activity in the region, as well as a transportation and communication center. It is on the eastern shore of the Madeira River, one of the main tributaries of the Amazon River. It is also Rondônia's largest city, and the largest state capital of Brazil by area.
São José dos Campos is a major city and the seat of the municipality of the same name in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. One of the leading industrial and research centers with emphasis in aerospace sciences in Latin America, the city is located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country; São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It is the main city of the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte. A native of São José dos Campos is called a joseense. Being the second most populous non-capital city in Brazil – behind Campinas – São José dos Campos lies in the middle of the Expanded Metropolitan Complex, the first megalopolis in the Southern Hemisphere, with over thirty million inhabitants. The city's metro area also includes Greater São Paulo, Campinas, Santos and Sorocaba. The municipality concentrates many major companies and industries, such as Embraer, Panasonic, Johnson & Johnson, Ericsson, Philips, General Motors, Petrobras, Monsanto among others. São José dos Campos also holds relevant education and research institutions, as ITA, INPE, CEMADEN, IEAv, IEA, IFI, UNESP, UNIFESP, DCTA, FATEC, UNIVAP and IP%D, holding a position the puts the city as the main and largest Aerospacial Complex in Latin America. Thus, it is also considered the warlike producer centre. The Technological Park, the largest one in the country, is the only research institute in the world that converges all the three top global plane production companies, Embraer, Boeing and Airbus.
António Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit priest, diplomat, orator, preacher, philosopher, writer, and member of the Royal Council to the King of Portugal.
Olímpia is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, in the Microregion of São José do Rio Preto. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 55,130 inhabitants. The city has a total area of 802.6 km2 (309.9 sq mi).
Magno Alves de Araújo is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
São Paulo State University is a public university run by the state government of São Paulo, Brazil.
Salvador is a Brazilian municipality and capital city of the state of Bahia. Situated in the Zona da Mata in the Northeast Region of Brazil, Salvador is recognized throughout the country and internationally for its cuisine, music, and architecture. The African influence in many cultural aspects of the city makes it a center of Afro-Brazilian culture. As the first capital of Colonial Brazil, the city is one of the oldest in the Americas and one of the first planned cities in the world, having been established during the Renaissance period. Its foundation in 1549 by Tomé de Sousa took place on account of the implementation of the General Government of Brazil by the Portuguese Empire.
Bela Vista is one of the most traditional Italian neighborhoods in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It belongs to the borough of Sé, and it has been a mixed neighborhood since its beginning, where free African-Brazilians and/or a mixture of Native-Brazilians, Blacks and Portuguese descendants lived. Later, more European immigrants arrived, such as Spaniards, Germans, English, French, Belgians, and Italians. The Italian community became more numerous than all the others during the first decades of the twentieth century.
Mooca from tupi mo-oka, meaning to build houses is a district in the subprefecture of the same name in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Mooca today is home to over 75,000 inhabitants, spread in its 7.7 square kilometres (3.0 sq mi). It is also considered one of the fastest-growing districts in the city, experiencing over the last years a vigorous momentum in the construction industry. Mooca has been the stage for many social movements, specially because of the presence of a strong influence of the industry interests in the political scene of São Paulo towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The composition of Mooca's economy today ranges from small businesses ran by locals, large industries, such as Lorenzetti and Groupe SEB, both important players locally and globally in the home appliances industry, and ultimately, large shopping malls offering a variety of services.
Pátio do Colégio is the name given to the historical Jesuit church and school in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The name is also used to refer to the square in front of the church. The Pátio do Colégio marks the site where the city was founded in 1554.
Antônio Prado is a municipality located in the Serra Gaúcha regionin The city is situated in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It boasts the largest collection of architectural heritage designated by IPHAN related to Italian colonization in Brazil. Its population is estimated at 13,041 people.
Faxinal dos Guedes is a municipality located in the west of the state of Santa Catarina, in the South Region of Brazil. Its population, according to the 2022 Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics Census, was 11 192 inhabitants. With an area of 340,070 km², part of its territory is located on the western edge of a meteoritic crater, the Vargeão Dome.
Events in the year 1953 in Brazil.
St. Ignatius College is a Brazilian Catholic school located in Fortaleza, Ceará. It offers kindergarten through high school as well as an evening school which enables workers to complete elementary and high school. The school was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1955.
Catarinense College is a private Catholic primary and secondary school located on Florianópolis island, Santa Catarina, off the coast of Brazil. The school was founded in 1905 by the Society of Jesus at the request of the Santa Catarina state governor at the time. It is maintained by the Antônio Vieira Society.
Diocesan College, also known as the College of St. Francis de Sales, is a private Catholic primary and secondary school located in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. The school was founded in 1906 by the Jesuits.
Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé is a private Catholic pre-school, primary and secondary school, colonial of Plateresque style building, located in the Santa Fe district of Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia. The co-educational school was founded on 27 September 1604 by the Archbishop of Bogota Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero and the Jesuits José Dadey, Martín de Funes, Juan Bautista Coluccini, Martín de Torres, Bernabé de Rojas, and Diego Sánchez. The school is managed by the Society of Jesus.
Padre Arrupe School is a school of the Society of Jesus through its society Antônio Vieira Association, in Teresina, Brazil. It offers education to socially vulnerable children between the ages of two and six.
Mário Lago OMC was a Brazilian lawyer, poet, broadcaster, composer and actor.
The Tejupeba House and the Chapel of the Colégio Sugar Plantation is a plantation house and chapel in Itaporanga d'Ajuda, Sergipe, Brazil. The church dates to the Jesuit settlement of Santo Ignácio, located in present-day Itaporanga d'Ajuda, in 1575. It is one of many locations cited as the first Jesuits settlement in Portuguese Brazil, and one of many Jesuit slave-holding properties in Latin America. The house and chapel were listed as a historic structure by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage in 1943. The architectural historian Maria Berthilde Moura Filha stated that "of the remaining sugar plantations in Sergipe, this is the one with the oldest known references."
