Casarão

Construction

387 tons of stone from a mansion slid intact across a closed state highway and over a canal in less than four hours when the historic restaurant Chez Odette’s was lifted and moved about 300 meters in New Hope.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 10/06/2026 at 00:03

Interesting facts

A tour of an 1800 mansion in Vassouras showcases a tree that serves as a support, furniture made of vinhático that is nearly 200 years old, a German boat from 1940, and a 1967 Peugeot kept there, with the current heir still living there and guiding the history.

Carla Teles 16/04/2026 at 11:20

Interesting facts

Explorers enter a preserved mansion with a factory inside and find an attic and basement full of rarities: never-used suitcases, new dishes, bags of coins, and a 1964 Monarque motorcycle from a single owner that seemed like an unfinished resting place.

Carla Teles 09/04/2026 at 15:16

Interesting facts

While restoring a historic mansion from 1910, a brick structure with an old turbine that generated energy from the Rio do Testo emerged, along with a hidden door and a rare floor concealed under layers of wax.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 29/03/2026 at 09:55

Interesting facts

After 14 years of waiting, a rammed earth mansion built in 1702 in the North Zone of São Paulo will become a park with leisure facilities and green areas, with a million-dollar investment.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 28/03/2026 at 13:47

Interesting facts

With 38 rooms and about 236 years of history, this mansion impresses with its size, dark past, and mysteries.

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 26/03/2026 at 00:39

Casarão de R$ 250 milhões no Jardim América, em São Paulo, que foi de Abílio Diniz, muda de dono e passa a Joesley Batista, reacendendo leituras sobre valor, reposicionamento e o significado de um endereço entre os mais caros do país.

Economy

Historic Mansion Worth R$ 250 Million Once Owned by Abílio Diniz in Jardim América Sold in São Paulo, With Purchase by Another Notable Businessman Marking Significant Change in One of the Country’s Most Expensive Addresses

Bruno Teles 07/02/2026 at 19:39

Interesting facts

Amid Ruins and Debris, A Million-Dollar Historic Mansion Over A Century Old Begins Restoration and May Regain Its Pride Of Recife

Noel Budeguer 25/10/2025 at 19:13

Mansão abandonada, Floresta, EUA, Guerra, Aviões, Fords

Interesting facts

Explorer Discovers Lost Mansion in the Forest: It Had 11 Rare Fords, Airplanes, and Even a Boat — Video Shows Detailed Views of the House That Belonged to a WWII Veteran

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 17/10/2025 at 11:24

Casarão abandonado, Governadores, Leilão

Interesting facts

In This Abandoned Mansion Worth R$ 107.5 Million, Governors and Even a Mayor Have Lived — Today It Seeks a New Owner at Auction

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 25/09/2025 at 18:30

Interesting facts

Nostalgia Spoiler: Abandoned War Veteran’s Mansion Hides Rare 70s Ford Gran Torino, F-250, and Even Forgotten Airplanes in the Woods

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 14/06/2025 at 15:52

387 tons of stone from a mansion slid intact across a closed state highway and over a canal in less than four hours when the historic restaurant Chez Odette’s was lifted and moved about 300 meters in New Hope.

A tour of an 1800 mansion in Vassouras showcases a tree that serves as a support, furniture made of vinhático that is nearly 200 years old, a German boat from 1940, and a 1967 Peugeot kept there, with the current heir still living there and guiding the history.

Explorers enter a preserved mansion with a factory inside and find an attic and basement full of rarities: never-used suitcases, new dishes, bags of coins, and a 1964 Monarque motorcycle from a single owner that seemed like an unfinished resting place.

While restoring a historic mansion from 1910, a brick structure with an old turbine that generated energy from the Rio do Testo emerged, along with a hidden door and a rare floor concealed under layers of wax.

After 14 years of waiting, a rammed earth mansion built in 1702 in the North Zone of São Paulo will become a park with leisure facilities and green areas, with a million-dollar investment.

With 38 rooms and about 236 years of history, this mansion impresses with its size, dark past, and mysteries.

Historic Mansion Worth R$ 250 Million Once Owned by Abílio Diniz in Jardim América Sold in São Paulo, With Purchase by Another Notable Businessman Marking Significant Change in One of the Country’s Most Expensive Addresses

Amid Ruins and Debris, A Million-Dollar Historic Mansion Over A Century Old Begins Restoration and May Regain Its Pride Of Recife

Explorer Discovers Lost Mansion in the Forest: It Had 11 Rare Fords, Airplanes, and Even a Boat — Video Shows Detailed Views of the House That Belonged to a WWII Veteran

In This Abandoned Mansion Worth R$ 107.5 Million, Governors and Even a Mayor Have Lived — Today It Seeks a New Owner at Auction

Nostalgia Spoiler: Abandoned War Veteran’s Mansion Hides Rare 70s Ford Gran Torino, F-250, and Even Forgotten Airplanes in the Woods

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Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.