Quarta-feira, 5 de Março de 2008

Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Paul Cathedral or the Cathedral, located at the Cathedral Square in the centre of São Paulo. It is one of the five largest Gothic churches of the world.

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Curiosities

*It is also important to recover the carrilhão of bells, which is the tower left, with 61 bells and 20 tonnes, and planned by the company merged Dutch Petit & Fritsen. Inaugurated in 1959, emudeceu in 1969 and returned to play in 1989, reconditioned and computerised by the German origin Voith, which commemorated 25 years in Sao Paulo.
*The Cathedral is located exactly where the imaginary line passes the Tropic of Capricorn. This was the topographical factor that added to the sentimental reason has caused the present cathedral was built in the same place of the "old sé" - was known as the matrix that was demolished.

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Segunda-feira, 3 de Março de 2008

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Sé Cathedral

This the Sé Cathedral of São Paulo-Brazil. It was built in 1554, to be a cathedral, it is important because it is a historic monument from São Paulo.

Were used about 800 tons of marble rare, in the wall was used granite.

The Cathedral is located exactly where the imaginary line passes the Tropic of Capricorn.

This was the topographical factor that added to the sentimental reason has caused the present cathedral was built in the same place of the old Cathedral "- was known as the matrix that was demolished. The statistical numbers that contabilizam as material in the works and decoration of the matrix are impressive: 154,200 kg of white marble from Carrara, 9,600 kg of green marble St Denis mines of Val d'Aosta, 74,550 kg of the yellow Siena marble mines of Monte d 'Elsa; 166,750 kilograms of red marble portassanta, of my Caldana, (Grosseto), 3,164 kg of onyx of Val d'Aosta, 4,050 kilograms of porfiro ancient Egypt; 135 kg of Malaquita of Congo, 25 kg of lazulita Chilean; 15 thousand kilos of bronze.