Manaus, the Paris of the Jungle There is a little more than a hundred years, Manaus lived its height. The jungle was very
close with all its exoticism, but the heart of the city itself spoke French. In its bars and cafes, is heard Puccini and Strauss. There was phone, tram and electric light. Importavam up houses whole of Europe. It was the wealth extracted from seringais. The Teatro Amazonas, inaugurated in 1896 - retired in 1990 - is beautiful in its neoclassical style. The work, funded by European traders in the heyday of the cycle of rubber, including blocks of stone from England, tiles of the French Alsace and Italian marble. The cloth of mouth of the stage represents the meeting of the waters of the rivers Negro and Solimoes. The noble hall is decorated with paintings of the Italian Domenico de Angelis and floor formed by 12 thousand pieces of wood embedded without nail or glue. Its dome, 36 thousand scales of enamelled ceramic lead the colors of the national flag. For its stage passed Sarah Barnhardt, Caruso, companies operísticas European and, in celebration of the centenary of the Theatre, presented itself José Carreras. Today, the theater is in the Amazon national tour of spectacles, announcing the regional culture, has a choir and a Philharmonic Orchestra, consisting of musicians from around the world. This time is also reported in beirais of old houses; in coretos; in the building of the Customs, fully imported from Europe, in Piazza San Sebastian with its floor of Portuguese stones, in the monument Opening of Ports in bronze, granite and marble, in the Municipal Market built with frames, structures, arches and iron bars imported, in 1892, to be a small, but perfect, replica of the famous Les Halles in Paris. The
floating port was built in 1902 by British engineers and comprises a great píer extended on concrete beams of steel, supported by buoys. This system allows monitoring the movements of the waters of the Rio Negro and receive vessels of any draught throughout the year. From local departing vessels fishing and transport of cargo and tourists to their best adventures in the Amazon. In these tours is common to find the curious porpoises to be pink jumping on the water. The skyline, the silhouette of the city of Manaus, emerging the Rio Negro, in the back of a tour by boat at dusk, it is unforgettable. After living a day or more with the beauty of the jungle, this scenario of old house, the Customs and port floating with all kinds of boats, comes with a beautiful painting of colors. With the establishment of the Free Zone in 1967, Manaus became a major commercial and industrial center and a modern city. The term of the tax incentives is ensuring by the year 2013, but with the release of imports for the whole Brazil, the economy does not show more the same force. New exits are being planned in more Ecotourism presents the same force. New exit are being planned and Ecotourism presents as the most important alternative to the twenty-first century. The incorporável charm of Manaus is in its history and the binomial river-forest with a wide variety of
natural beauty. All converge to the preservation of an invaluable wealth in forests, fauna, rivers fantastic as the Negro and Amazon and crystalline igarapés running in the shade of huge trees. Only 8 km from Manaus is the natural meeting of dark and deep Rio Negro with the barrento and fertile Rio Solimoes, whose waters run kilometers side by side without mixing, and then form the Amazon. The landscape Area of the city still offers natural pools, formed with the utilization of the waters of igarapés, counted the tropical sun on the sands of Praia Ponta Negra and waterfalls, and Tarumãzinho Tarumã-Grande.