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Brazil.

Less-touristed places, sorted by Wander Well Score.

Jardim Itanhaem, Brazil
Silver
Coast & island escapes

Jardim Itanhaem

Brazil

Coastal city on the São Paulo shore with a strong beach profile, Itanhaém holds the distinction of being the second-oldest municipality in Brazil, founded in…

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Ouro Preto, Brazil
Gold
Charming old-world towns

Ouro Preto

Ouro Preto · Brazil

This UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Serra do Espinhaço mountains of Minas Gerais, Ouro Preto is a former colonial gold-mining town whose Baroque churches,…

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Olinda, Brazil
Gold
Coast & island escapes

Olinda

Olinda · Brazil

Founded in 1535, Olinda is one of Brazil's best-preserved colonial cities, with its historic centre — a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982 — dense with ba…

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Pouso Alegre, Brazil
Silver
Mountain villages

Pouso Alegre

Pouso Alegre · Brazil

Mid-sized industrial city in southern Minas Gerais, Pouso Alegre sits in the Sapucaí River valley at moderate elevation, with mountain terrain in the surroun…

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Guarapari, Brazil
Silver
Coast & island escapes

Guarapari

Guarapari · Brazil

A coastal city in Espírito Santo, Brazil, Guarapari draws visitors to beaches whose sand carries an unusually high level of natural radioactivity, a quality…

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Patos de Minas, Brazil
Silver
Coast & island escapes

Patos de Minas

Patos de Minas · Brazil

Mid-sized Brazilian city in Minas Gerais state, Patos de Minas presents a lively urban centre with a white-spired church anchoring a palm-lined square, surro…

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Ilhéus, Brazil
Gold
Coast & island escapes

Ilhéus

Ilhéus · Brazil

Founded in 1534 on the southern Bahia coast, Ilhéus is the hometown of Jorge Amado — author of Gabriela, Cravo e Canela and Terras do Sem Fim — and the setti…

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Caraguatatuba, Brazil
Silver
Coast & island escapes

Caraguatatuba

Caraguatatuba · Brazil

A beach city on São Paulo state's north shore, Caraguatatuba — widely known as Caraguá — sits where Atlantic forest-covered mountains meet a coastline of bea…

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Morretes, Brazil
Silver
Inland waterside towns

Morretes

Morretes · Brazil

A walkable riverside town in Paraná, Brazil, with a centre full of cafés and restaurants and a reputation built around barreado, a traditional slow-cooked di…

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Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil
Silver
Mountain villages

Mogi das Cruzes

Mogi das Cruzes · Brazil

Founded in the early 17th century as a stop on the route between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Mogi das Cruzes is a city in the Alto Tietê region east of São…

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Coronel Fabriciano, Brazil
Silver

Coronel Fabriciano

Coronel Fabriciano · Brazil

A city in Minas Gerais's Vale do Aço region with a walkable centre full of cafés and restaurants, sitting alongside the Rio Doce.

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Vila Velha, Brazil
Silver
Coast & island escapes

Vila Velha

Vila Velha · Brazil

Founded in 1535 by the Portuguese colonist Vasco Fernandes Coutinho, Vila Velha is the oldest city in Espírito Santo state and served as the captaincy's capi…

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Pocao, Brazil
Silver

Pocao

Brazil

A yellow twin-towered church anchors a broad tree-lined plaza at the heart of this small Pernambuco town, set among rolling hills in Brazil's interior northe…

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Teresópolis, Brazil
Bronze
Mountain villages

Teresópolis

Teresópolis · Brazil

A mountain city in Rio de Janeiro state, Teresópolis sits at high elevation and serves as the main gateway to Serra dos Órgãos National Park, whose boundarie…

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Brusque, Brazil
Gold
Inland waterside towns

Brusque

Brusque · Brazil

Founded in 1860 by German immigrants in Santa Catarina's Itajaí Valley, Brusque grew into one of the state's early industrial centres, with a textile industr…

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Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil
Silver
Big-city explorations

Campos dos Goytacazes

Campos dos Goytacazes · Brazil

A large city in northern Rio de Janeiro state with a centre that holds many historic churches, Campos dos Goytacazes sits on the water and lies within reach…

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Jardim Guaratiba, Brazil
Silver

Jardim Guaratiba

Brazil

This busy bay-side beach curves between forested hills in this western Rio de Janeiro neighborhood, where colorful umbrellas line the sand, beachside kiosks…

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Pipa Beach, Brazil
Silver

Pipa Beach

Tibau do Sul · Brazil

A beach village on Rio Grande do Norte's southern coast with a dense café and restaurant scene for its size and scenic viewpoints in the surrounding area.

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Blumenau, Brazil
Gold
Mountain villages

Blumenau

Blumenau · Brazil

Founded on 2 September 1850 by German chemist Hermann Blumenau, this Santa Catarina city in the Itajaí Valley is home to the second-largest Oktoberfest in th…

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Itajaí, Brazil
Gold
Coast & island escapes

Itajaí

Itajaí · Brazil

A coastal city in Santa Catarina, Brazil, at the mouth of the Itajaí-Açu River, Itajaí holds the title of Brazil's national fishing capital, awarded in 2023,…

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Mariana, Brazil
Silver

Mariana

Mariana · Brazil

The oldest settlement in Minas Gerais and the first place in the state to receive official city status, Mariana is a colonial-architecture town in southeaste…

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Natal, Brazil
Silver
Coast & island escapes

Natal

Natal · Brazil

Founded on Christmas Day in 1599 on the banks of the Potengi River, Natal is the coastal capital of Rio Grande do Norte in northeastern Brazil, with Atlantic…

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Botucatu, Brazil
Gold

Botucatu

Botucatu · Brazil

This university city in the state of São Paulo, Botucatu sits at elevation on the São Paulo plateau — a geography that gives the city its name, derived from…

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São José, Brazil
Silver
Charming old-world towns

São José

São José · Brazil

Founded in 1750 by Azorean settlers and later the entry point for Santa Catarina's first German colonists in 1829, São José is a large city that encircles th…

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Campina Grande, Brazil
Gold
Big-city explorations

Campina Grande

Campina Grande · Brazil

Campina Grande, a city in Brazil's Paraíba state, draws countrywide attention for its month-long Saint John's Festival in June — billed as the world's larges…

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Nossa Senhora do Socorro, Brazil
Silver
Inland waterside towns

Nossa Senhora do Socorro

Nossa Senhora do Socorro · Brazil

Sprawling riverside city in Sergipe, Nossa Senhora do Socorro sits along a broad waterway crossed by a long bridge, with dense red-tile rooftops spreading in…

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Maragogipe, Brazil
Silver
Inland waterside towns

Maragogipe

Maragogipe · Brazil

This waterfront town in Bahia, Brazil, Maragogipe sits on the Paraguaçu River upstream from the Baía de Todos os Santos, with an extensive mangrove system al…

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Santa Maria, Brazil
Silver
Big-city explorations

Santa Maria

Santa Maria · Brazil

A university city in the geographical centre of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, Santa Maria has a walkable centre with a dense café and resta…

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Caxias, Brazil
Silver
Inland waterside towns

Caxias

Caxias · Brazil

This city in eastern Maranhão cut through by the Itapecuru River and known locally as "terra das águas cristalinas" — land of crystal-clear waters — Caxias s…

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Poços de Caldas, Brazil
Gold
Mountain villages

Poços de Caldas

Poços de Caldas · Brazil

This hydromineral resort city in southern Minas Gerais, Poços de Caldas has built its reputation on hot springs and a mild climate, drawing visitors to a cen…

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Birigui, Brazil
Silver
Coast & island escapes

Birigui

Birigui · Brazil

A mid-sized São Paulo state city with a walkable central plaza lined with tall palms, a white-steepled church, and a classic bandstand gazebo that anchors ev…

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Maringá, Brazil
Gold
Big-city explorations

Maringá

Maringá · Brazil

Planned from the ground up in 1947 by urbanist Jorge de Macedo Vieira along Garden City principles, Maringá is a large city in northwestern Paraná, Brazil, w…

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Aiuruoca, Brazil
Silver

Aiuruoca

Brazil

Founded in 1706 at the foot of Pico do Papagaio in the rugged highlands of Minas Gerais, Aiuruoca is a modest Brazilian town with an unusual concentration of…

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Jequié, Brazil
Gold
Coast & island escapes

Jequié

Jequié · Brazil

A city in the southwest of Brazil's Bahia state, Jequié sits on the water between the Atlantic Forest and the Caatinga biomes, in a mountain-ringed basin kno…

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Mairiporã, Brazil
Silver

Mairiporã

Mairiporã · Brazil

A mid-sized Brazilian city spread across forested hills on the northern edge of greater São Paulo, with a dramatic pale rock face rising behind the rooftops…

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Itu, Brazil
Gold

Itu

Itu · Brazil

Itu, a city in São Paulo state, is known across Brazil for its oversized novelty objects — a tradition traced to the comedian Francisco Flaviano de Almeida —…

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Nova Friburgo, Brazil
Silver
Mountain villages

Nova Friburgo

Nova Friburgo · Brazil

This mountain city in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Nova Friburgo sits high in the Serra do Mar range roughly a day's drive from the state capital and holds t…

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Bom Conselho, Brazil
Silver

Bom Conselho

Bom Conselho · Brazil

This northeastern Brazilian town in Pernambuco's Agreste region, its lively central square anchored by a twin-towered yellow-and-white colonial church and a…

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Petrópolis, Brazil
Gold
Mountain villages

Petrópolis

Petrópolis · Brazil

Founded as a summer retreat for Emperor Pedro II and Brazil's 19th-century aristocracy, Petrópolis is a mountain city in Rio de Janeiro state whose centre ho…

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Itatiba, Brazil
Silver

Itatiba

Itatiba · Brazil

City in São Paulo state known for the Zooparque, one of Latin America's largest thematic zoos, Itatiba sits in rugged highland terrain about 80 km from the s…

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Itumbiara, Brazil
Silver
Inland waterside towns

Itumbiara

Itumbiara · Brazil

Sitting on the Paranaíba River at the Goiás–Minas Gerais border, Itumbiara is a city in southern Goiás where water sports, the Salitre Waterfall, and the Bei…

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Ubá, Brazil
Silver

Ubá

Ubá · Brazil

A city in Minas Gerais, Brazil, known across the country as one of the leading furniture-manufacturing centres in the state and as the origin of the Ubá mang…

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Conselheiro Lafaiete, Brazil
Gold

Conselheiro Lafaiete

Conselheiro Lafaiete · Brazil

City in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a centre holding many historic churches, Conselheiro Lafaiete traces its origins to one of the oldest settlements in the s…

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Governador Celso Ramos, Brazil
Silver
Mountain villages

Governador Celso Ramos

Brazil

A coastal town in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, set against mountain terrain and fronting the sea.

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São Gonçalo, Brazil
Silver
Coast & island escapes

São Gonçalo

São Gonçalo · Brazil

A large Brazilian city on the shores of Guanabara Bay, São Gonçalo pairs a lively urban streetscape and twin-towered historic church with calm waterfront vie…

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Palhoça, Brazil
Silver
Coast & island escapes

Palhoça

Palhoça · Brazil

This coastal city in Santa Catarina, Brazil, Palhoça sits on the southern bay of the Ilha de Santa Catarina and the Atlantic, a short distance from the state…

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Governador Valadares, Brazil
Silver
Big-city explorations

Governador Valadares

Governador Valadares · Brazil

Pico da Ibituruna, a peak visible from nearly every part of the city, draws hang-gliding and paragliding competitors to Governador Valadares, a mid-sized cit…

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Itapecerica da Serra, Brazil
Silver
Coast & island escapes

Itapecerica da Serra

Itapecerica da Serra · Brazil

This vivid yellow colonial-style church anchors this hilltop São Paulo–area city, where a palm-lined central square, a municipal chamber building, and upland…

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Porto Seguro, Brazil
Gold
Coast & island escapes

Porto Seguro

Porto Seguro · Brazil

Porto Seguro, on the southern Bahia coast, is where Portuguese navigators under Pedro Álvares Cabral made their first landing in Brazil in 1500, giving the c…

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Uberaba, Brazil
Silver
Big-city explorations

Uberaba

Uberaba · Brazil

Paleontologists have discovered dinosaur skeletons in and around Uberaba, earning this highland city in Brazil's Minas Gerais state the nickname "The Land of…

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João Pessoa, Brazil
Gold
Coast & island escapes

João Pessoa

João Pessoa · Brazil

João Pessoa, the capital of Brazil's Paraíba state, sits at the easternmost point of the Americas — Ponta do Seixas — making it the first city on the contine…

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Assis, Brazil
Silver

Assis

Assis · Brazil

This mid-sized Brazilian city in São Paulo's southwest interior, where hilly commercial streets lined with local shops descend toward a low-rise skyline that…

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Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Gold
Big-city explorations

Juiz de Fora

Juiz de Fora · Brazil

Once nicknamed "Manchester Mineira" for its early industrial prominence, Juiz de Fora is a large city in southeastern Minas Gerais, built along the Paraibuna…

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Cuiabá, Brazil
Gold
Inland waterside towns

Cuiabá

Cuiabá · Brazil

Founded in 1719 during a gold rush on the banks of the Cuiabá River, this large Brazilian city is the capital of Mato Grosso and a gateway to the Pantanal we…

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Limoeiro do Norte, Brazil
Gold

Limoeiro do Norte

Limoeiro do Norte · Brazil

A town in Brazil's Ceará state where a twin-towered colonial church anchors a lively central square, with a walkable café and restaurant scene and easy acces…

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São Miguel das Missões, Brazil
Silver
Charming old-world towns

São Miguel das Missões

Brazil

The ruins of a 17th-century Spanish Jesuit mission, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are the reason most visitors come to this pocket-sized town in Ri…

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Sabará, Brazil
Silver

Sabará

Sabará · Brazil

A mid-sized Brazilian city spread across forested hills in Minas Gerais, Sabará glows at dusk with church towers visible among red-tile rooftops, backed by a…

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Porto Velho, Brazil
Gold
Inland waterside towns

Porto Velho

Porto Velho · Brazil

Sitting on the eastern shore of the Madeira River, one of the Amazon's main tributaries, Porto Velho is the capital of Brazil's Rondônia state and a major tr…

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Pesqueira, Brazil
Gold

Pesqueira

Pesqueira · Brazil

Compact Brazilian town in Pernambuco's interior, where a twin-towered colonial church anchors a dense spread of terracotta rooftops visible from the surround…

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Araras, Brazil
Silver

Araras

Araras · Brazil

A mid-sized Brazilian city in São Paulo state's interior, Araras spreads across gently rolling terrain with a low-rise red-tile skyline punctuated by a handf…

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More places in Brazil below the top of the list — pagination coming.

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