this august week is the ideal chance to see the monthly changing of the guard at the monument to the soldiers killed in world war ii (monumeno ao pracinhas)

there, on the first sunday of every month the army, the navy and the air force hold a joint ceremony, with a band, and a small parade.

An exciting and patriotic day for all Brazilian people is their Independence Day - This date marks the end of the political and social process undergone by the colony of Brazil, between the years of 1815 and 1822 when, finally emancipated them from the Portuguese Kingdom, the brazilian empire was created by Dom Pedro de Alcântara de Bragança, Dom Pedro I do Brasil.