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Porto Maravilha, a Carioca illusion

During my first stay in Rio de Janeiro, the city was nourished by hope. The World Cup had just ended, and the Olympic Games were...

São Bento, Rio de Janeiro’s monastery

A few meters away from the noisy avenues of central Rio de Janeiro, the hill of São Bento lives in unbreakable serenity. In this...

Frankfurt, between past and future

The city of Frankfurt, ravaged by the bombings of World War II, holds an ambivalent appearance. Even if its buildings no longer hold any...

Pages of Buenos Aires

“Every Argentine knows that the South begins at the other side of Rivadavia. Dahlmann was in the habit of saying that this was no mere...

Villages of Minas Gerais

The Minas Gerais that I discovered were wide landscapes of treeless hills, extending far into the Brazilian interior. For many...

Petrópolis, the Emperor’s refuge

The road from Rio to Petrópolis confronts us with everything the city wishes to hide. After taking the bus in a terminal buried by...

Endless São Paulo

Flying over the coasts of the South, cities turn into little webs of lights, separated by vast spaces of darkness. Between the Rio de la...

Colours of Bahía

Under a bygone sunset, five ships enter serene waters, in a bay dotted with islands and surrounded by sandy cliffs. Vespuccio, the...

Mythical birth of Rio

Brazil holds unimaginable stories, absurd conflicts between peoples from distant lands, fighting for worthless dreams. Today, those...

A Pyramid in Britanny

The cairn of Petit-Mont is a ruin disfigured by time. Built millenia ago on a peninsula in Britanny, it was mutilated by a Nazi bunker,...

Solstice at the Dolmen

Far in the depths of Britanny, an ancient neolithic monument stands: the Roche aux Fées Dolmen.Once a year, on the dawn of the winter...

Río, Rua, City

There are two ways to land in Rio de Janeiro. The first one is in Santos Dumont, an airport built along the shores of the bay. Seeing a...

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