| The
Portuguese Real Family came to Brasil to scape from Napoleon`s
threat and settled in Rio de Janeiro. Don Pedro the 2nd got
so enchanted by this mountainneour region that dead to have
a palace built here - what is now the Imperial Musean - the
summer resort ofour Emperor a century ago - and invited german,
english, italian and portuguese settlers to settle this region.
Nowadays with about 300.000 inhabitants |