Qualla: Farroupilha Park https://qualla.com/farroupilha-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/e/t/farroupilha-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Farroupilha Park https://qualla.com/farroupilha-park Farroupilha Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/farroupilha-park/ Photo credit FlyTri Imagens Aéreas, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name on the gate is a promise the city made to itself. Long before it became Porto Alegre's beloved green heart, this ground was the Várzea do Portão, a flooded lowland by the old gate of town where cattle were penned, leather was laid out to dry, and municipal garbage was dumped. Then, in 1884, the city changed the street's name to Campos da Redenção, the Fields of Redemption, to mark something that had just happened nearby: the freeing of hundreds of enslaved people in a district of the capital, a full year before Brazil freed the elderly and four years before slavery ended across the country. A dumping ground had been renamed for one of the proudest acts in the city's history.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/e/t/farroupilha-park-wp/6fet-farroupilha-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Farroupilha Park: The Commons That Refused to Be Sold https://qualla.com/farroupilha-park/ Photo credit FlyTri Imagens Aéreas, CC BY-SA 4.0. The land was set aside early and defended often. On February 23, 1807, the City Council asked the provincial governor, Paulo José da Silva Gama, to donate the lowland for public use and as a holding ground for the herds that supplied the town. For more than a century afterward, g...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/e/t/farroupilha-park-wp/6fet-farroupilha-park-the-commons-that-refused-to-be-sold.mp3 0:06 2 full Farroupilha Park: From Mud to Garden https://qualla.com/farroupilha-park/ Photo credit FlyTri Imagens Aéreas, CC BY-SA 4.0. The transformation came in stages. In 1870 the lowland got its first official name, Campo do Bonfim, after the chapel rising on its northern edge, and in 1872 a military base was authorized in the southeastern corner, the seed of today's Military School of Porto Alegre. Real land...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/e/t/farroupilha-park-wp/6fet-farroupilha-park-from-mud-to-garden.mp3 0:06 3 full Farroupilha Park: Sunday Belongs to the Brique https://qualla.com/farroupilha-park/ Photo credit FlyTri Imagens Aéreas, CC BY-SA 4.0. On Sunday mornings the park becomes the city's living room. From nine o'clock the Brique da Redenção unfolds along Avenida José Bonifácio, stalls of crafts, art, souvenirs, food, and antiques stretching down the avenue while families stroll and pass the gourd of mate from hand to...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/e/t/farroupilha-park-wp/6fet-farroupilha-park-sunday-belongs-to-the-brique.mp3 0:06 4 full Farroupilha Park: Monuments, Boats, and Borrowed Worlds https://qualla.com/farroupilha-park/ Photo credit FlyTri Imagens Aéreas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Agache's design scattered surprises across the grounds. A little lake holds an island Belvedere reached by a bridge, where you can rent paddle boats, some shaped like swans, from a wharf renovated in 2004. Rising over the Avenue of the States is the Monument to the Expeditionary,...

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