Is This Europe or Brazil? Discovering the Imperial City of Petrópolis 🇧🇷

This was my very first time visiting Petrópolis and I was pleasantly surprised by how much of a beautiful place it is. I definitely recommend checking this place out especially if you are into history for which this place has a lot of.
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[@nellyjohnson7316]

The scenery is incredibly beautiful. The forest covered mountains.

[@nickmusttravel]

It is a very beautiful place if you like nature. I really enjoyed it.

[@nellyjohnson7316]

Fun fact: Pedro I ..one of his daughters princess Isabela issued an edict freeing all the slaves. A street in rio is named after her. It was the street she used for her and her entourage to get to Copacabana beach when the royal family was in rio. It’s the dividing boundary between le e beach and Copacabana beach.

[@nickmusttravel]

Very interesting fact! Thank you. I think I heard that from someone before. Very cool! 👍

[@joaov.m.oliveira9903]

She was Pedro II's daughter though.

[@dildou8856]

Looks like great place for someone like me for northern europe. Btw. "Planeta Sonho - 14 Bis" is a beautiful song.

[@nickmusttravel]

It is a nice place but I would not eat to live there personally. It is a nice song indeed!

[@denyclaire]

HI, I´d like to sugest , if I may, you visit the city of GRAMADO, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.That city is amazing and is only 1 hour and a half driving from Porto Alegre (capital of the state). I guess you´ll like visiting that city.

[@nickmusttravel]

Thank you for the suggestion. I definitely wanted to go there but due to time constraints I was not able to get there this time round but I definitely plan on it in the future.

[@user-zw8ju6ti4l]

Filmagem maravilhosa!

[@mattvideoeditor]

The dispute is about the technology, because the Wright Bros used a slingshot to take off, while Santos Dumont flew using only his prototype from the ground. There was an award in Paris and Mr. Dumon won the prize. Therefore, the Frenchmen also regard him as the airplane pioneer, although everybody knows that they would do it anyway just to piss off Anglophones. Fun fact: Louis Cartier produced the first wristwatch ever, the "Cartier Santos", as a request from Dumont, because couldn't count the time properly while piloting using a pocket watch.

[@nickmusttravel]

Very cool information. Thank you for sharing that. I did not know these, especially the Cartier watch info. 👍😎

[@mattvideoeditor]

@@nickmusttravel you welcome, enjoy Brazil. I know they produce quality beer in Petropolis. I have never been there, shame on me, but now I am exploring Canada. Cheers.

[@rogerd9150]

Amazing and beautiful location for the city in the mountains. I LOVE your videos Nick. Looking forward to the next one. One question…Do you meet many folks from the US in your travels there?

[@nickmusttravel]

@@rogerd9150 I am glad you enjoy my videos. I appreciate you and the support. 👍

[@mrmanx89]

Dear Sirs, I recognize the importance of Wright Brothers to the progress of aviation, to people of USA. But I'll never recognize any kind of primacy in flight from that Gentlemen, first because they were working in absolute "secret", until 1908, when they presented their ground device dependant flying machine in Europe for the first time. Considering the alleged date for the first flight event, I cannot understand why 5 years later they were still using a catapult. I can't understand also why they tried to convince everybody with a simple photograph of an airplane flying high (more than a meter) over the launch rail, when hundreds of people watched every experiment made by Alberto Santos-Dumont since the beginning of the century, including that first flight on December 23rd, 1906 before a huge crowd on Bagatelle Field, Paris, with full press and media coverage and movie recording. It was an Official Experiment, homologated by Aero Club de France members present at the meeting. The numbers: 200 meters ground roll, 80 to 90 cm height, 60 meters distance, 30 to 35 km/h speed. About October 23rd, 1906 flight, Mr. Gordon Bennet, American, owner of Herald newspaper, told: "The first Human mechanical flight", among several other European newspaper headlines. Then, on November 12th, 1906, he managed to perform two more flights: In the first he traveled 82 meters in seven seconds. In the second, he managed 220 meters in 21 seconds, flying well above the crowd (out of ground effect) and winning Archdeacon Prize, established for the first to fly over 100 m distance. This last flight could last longer, but it had to be interrupted when the crowd precipitated under the flying machine, the pilot deciding to abort the experiment. Note: All this flights was done with absolute no ground equipment, such as catapult or ground engine. This fact, registered in a session of Aeroclub de France, on December, 1910 as "the first Aviator of the universe to fly in an motor airplane", was remembered too, by the Archdeacon Prize itself, and a Monument on Bagatelle with the inscriptions: "Ici le 12 novembre 1906, sous le controle de l'Aero-Club de France, Santos-Dumont a établi les premiers records d'áviation du monde. Durée 21s 1/5 Distance 220 m" (Translation: Here, on November 12th, 1906, under control of Aero-Club de France, Santos-Dumont established the first Aviation Record of the world. Duration: 21 sec 1/5 Distance 220 meters). Well, I'm only 42 years old, I didn't experience those events myself. But everybody can research on all available documents in libraries and newspapers. History (yes, real History!) tells us through dozens of European and a fistful of American newspapers what really happened. And what happened wasn't a whisper message to my neighbor in a silly game, but a strong shout that traveled over the ocean at that time, and is echoing until the present days... By the truth. Yours sincerely, Capt. Roberto Rodrigues Mola Sao Paulo - Brazil P.S. Santos-Dumont donated all the money from all the prizes he won to his faithful mechanics, in order to reacquire their tools given to pawn. Santos-Dumont was an idealist, aviation passionate, and never requested a patent for his machines, giving for nothing all the plans for 14-Bis and Demoiselle construction to anybody who requested them.

[@magomistico562]

Belas imagens , 😎👍

[@nickmusttravel]

Muito obrigado amigo. 😄👍

[@denyclaire]

Hi, have you ever been to the city of GRAMADO, in the state of RIO GRANDE DO SUL ? I strongly recommend you to do, for it´s an amazing city..indeed ! Peace !

[@nickmusttravel]

I do intend on going to visit Gramado if I go back to the south.

[@tripsterpanda]

He indeed used the 14 bis to fly, in fact, I believe there is real footage from 1906 (kzbin.info/www/bejne/pV6kg3d_htB3nqM) when he took off with it. If you do go into the museum, you can see some of his inventions and also as a fun fact: he was very superstitious, so the stairs are halfside hollow, so that you are forced to go up with the right foot everytime.

[@nickmusttravel]

I wished that I was able to go into the museum but they were doing renovations to it. Very interesting man he was.

[@tripsterpanda]

@@nickmusttravel I’m sure you will have another chance in the future :) you might also want to visit Bohemia brewery museum, people say it is nice 😊

[@nickmusttravel]

@@tripsterpanda Most definitely!

[@edgardascoli640]

Yooooo!!! This needs to 😊 continue 👏👏👏👏 💚💛 & 👍

[@danielimmortuos666]

Cool thats my hometown

[@nickmusttravel]

I really enjoyed your home town of Petrópolis. It’s a special place in Rio and Brazil.

[@mrmanx89]

There are no independence squares in Rio De Janeiro because the independence was fought and given in Sao Paulo by the Ipiranga River, Rio De Janeio has anything to do with that.

[@nickmusttravel]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@charlesjames4956]

Nobody claims the Wright bros 'discovered the airplane', or invented it, or anything like that. The documented claim is that the Wright bros did the first actual powered flight. The flight was filmed, and they had reporters there to document the event. This is proof that they did the flight on the day and time that is claimed. Santos Dumont later claimed he did a powered flight at an earlier date. But he did not have his event documented the way the Wright bros did, so it has never been proven that he did as he said. Maybe he did. But the Wright bros are proven to have done theirs, so history records it as the first 'documented' powered flight.

[@nickmusttravel]

A lot of Brazilians say this to me that he is the first man (representing Brazil) to fly the plane or invented it. I hear it all the time. I don't disagree with you though about it being documented by them on film because proof always beats hearsay lol

[@williamthierry5976]

​​@@nickmusttravelThere is a big difference between a plane that needs to be catapulted (external help) to fly and a plane that flies using its own engine. This difference is crucial between the brothers' and Dummont's projects. And the first flight recorded by cameras and documents using its own engine taking it off the ground was in Paris, model 14-Bis, pilot and inventor Santos Dummont, there is no need to try to rewrite history to become better. The video still exists today, on KZbin it is possible to find this first flight in history using its own engine. Canadians are obviously part of the other story, since Canada is basically an extension of the United States (which to this day is even funny that they didn't come together to be a single country) completely influenced in all areas. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqavi6yAmJeSa9Usi=E__HbFGe470imlRq easy

[@nickmusttravel]

@@williamthierry5976 I agree with you. Santos Dumont seems like the real deal 👍🛩 As for us joining the US. it was never gonna work out considering the Canadians (originally British) burned down the white house back in 1814 as well as most of Washington. Thanks for sharing the information.

[@mrmanx89]

Do you Americans has World histor in your sxhools???

[@nickmusttravel]

First of all I am not American and secondly, do they teach you manners where you live?

[@mrmanx89]

@@nickmusttravel this doesn’t concern you. My politeness is for those ones who deserve it not for those ones who want it. And Yes! Canadians are also northern Americans.

[@nickmusttravel]

@@mrmanx89Canadians are not the same as Americans. Have a great day!