Viewpoints – Placecloud (English)

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Viewpoints – Placecloud (English)

Leading cultural researchers tell stories of places around the world. For the full spatial multimedia experience and more episodes visit www.placecloud.io.

  1. The Dutch woman annoying Dutch men

    14 HR. AGO

    The Dutch woman annoying Dutch men

    Recife Brazil We are in the Port of Recife, where the Dutch woman Sara Hendricx landed in 1637. She arrived in Brazil dressed as a man on a ship belonging to the Dutch West India Company, the private company that explored possessions in America and Africa on behalf of the Dutch State in the 17th century. Her story, fragmented and reconstructed from different documents from the period, reinforces the power and gender relations that so oppressed and still oppress women's lives, bodies and choices, as well as the secondary role relegated to them in Western historiography.

    5 min
  2. Sins beneath the equator

    2 DAYS AGO

    Sins beneath the equator

    Tamandar Brazil We’re in the tiny town of Porto Calvo, the oldest parish in the state of Alagoas. The Portuguese expelled the original population from the area in the 16th century, and started cultivating sugarcane. Then, in 1609, its most famous son, and perhaps Brazil’s most famous traitor, Domingos Fernandes Calabar was born here.

    8 min
  3. Resistance is not futile

    3 DAYS AGO

    Resistance is not futile

    Recife Brazil We stand in front of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, in the neighborhood of Apipucos, north of Recife. The little church is worth a visit, but we're here because on this very land, in the 17th century, Jerônima de Almeida, a remarkable woman, ran a sugar mill, while pushing back against the Dutch occupation.

    6 min
  4. The Flemish play Brazilian football

    5 DAYS AGO

    The Flemish play Brazilian football

    Rio de Janeiro Brazil Rio de Janeiro is host to 4 major soccer clubs, but the most successful club of the city, in fact the most popular soccer club in the country, with some 22% of the Brazilian population a fan, is Flamengo. Flamengo was founded in 1895, first as a rowing club, and it took until 1912 for the club to play their first official football match, after a group of ten dissatisfied players from the nearby Fluminense football club broke away following a dispute.

    8 min
  5. The great facade

    JAN 20

    The great facade

    Recife Brazil Even today, in the 21st century, many of Brazil's politicians continue to make decisions that determine the future of the country from offices located in palaces built by colonisers. The governor of Pernambuco, for example, runs the state from the Palácio do Campo das Princesas, a pompous building constructed in 1841 from a design by the renowned Portuguese architect and military officer Morai Âncora.

    7 min
  6. From Recife, to Berlin, to Krakow

    JAN 18

    From Recife, to Berlin, to Krakow

    Krakow Poland We are standing in front of the Jagiellonian Library, located in the city of Kraków, Poland. The Jagiellonian Library is part of the University with the same name, originally founded in 1364, and houses almost 6.7 million volumes, making it one of the largest libraries in Poland.

    5 min
  7. Easier for an ox to fly than for Nassau to be a hero

    JAN 17

    Easier for an ox to fly than for Nassau to be a hero

    Recife Brazil We’re standing on the 21st century version of the Maurício de Nassau Bridge, in the center of Recife. On the day of the inauguration of its first version, on 28 February 1644, a flying ox crossed a gallery in the garden of Governor Maurice de Nassau, sending the population into a delirium.

    8 min
  8. Unknown means unloved

    JAN 16

    Unknown means unloved

    Recife Brazil Like many Brazilian cities, Recife has several streets and avenues that honour historical figures. Avenida Cruz Cabugá pays tribute to one of the most important figures in the Pernambuco Revolution of 1817, Avenida Miguel Arraes de Alencar is named after the governor who administered the state of Pernambuco for three terms, while the busy Avenida Governador Agamenon Magalhães reminds thousands of Recife residents every day of a politician who flirted with Nazism in the 1930s.

    3 min
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Leading cultural researchers tell stories of places around the world. For the full spatial multimedia experience and more episodes visit www.placecloud.io.

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    Placecloud (English)
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