.......The Images

Manaus

The Governor's Palace: during decades this Mansion, built by a German Rubber Baron, was the seat of the Amazonas State Government - today, a museum and cultural space open to the public.	One of the statues adorning the gardens and entrance of the Rio Negro Palace.	Unfortunately, social inequality is also to be found right in the city centre, with apalling housing and sanitary conditions of squatters settling down literally, on top of the Igarapés.	Smaller boats often prefer to moor at Educandos, rather than the busy port of the town centre.	The São José do Operário (Saint John) Church.
The interior decoration of the Teatro Amazonas was painted by Italian painters, renown of their time.	The Fish Market, part of the Adolpho Lisboa City Market, was built as a replica of the Parisian market, retaining to date the same architecture.	Individually, there seems to be no precision in the architecture of the housing by the riverside, however, if looked at from a distance, it is remarkeable, how they all are built at a safe distance from the high-level water mark of the Rio Negro.	The rainwashed skyes near the Amazonas Shopping Centre.	Frontal view of the Teatro Amazonas.
Manaus' Cathedral, with Christmas ilumination (2005).	Day and night, the port of Manaus is busy with regional boats coming from and leaving to all major cities of the Amazon Basin - the roads are hardly a comparison to the river network, or the transport costs.	Side view of the Teatro Amazonas.	The São Sebastião Square is surrounded by constructions of the past century, built during/arround the Rubber Boom. This area near the Theatre is also known as the "Largo of São Sebastião".	Ave. 7th of September (Brazil's Independence Day), near the Cathedral.