HANNIBAL might well have been just another medium-sized river settlement, had not Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who renamed himself Mark Twain after the cry of pilots on the Mississippi, spent his boyhood here. Although Hannibal does have...
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LAMBARI is the nearest you get to a downmarket spa town on the Circuito das ¡guas, though you wouldn't guess it from the prices of its main hotels. It has a beautiful lake and the obligatory spa park, but lacks the prosperous feel of Caxambu and S„o...
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An hour from S„o Francisco, the land on which JOINVILLE was settled was originally given as a dowry by Emperor Dom Pedro to his sister, who had married the Prince of Joinville, the son of Louis-Philippe of France. A deal with Hamburg timber...
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