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Bens Tombados...
by serial_me on January 6, 2009

last year i was acompanying friends who were filming old sites which dated from colonial times ( in Brazil ) ; one of them wasn't that antique but still supposed to be a "saved / protected property" , an old orange farm in a once rich area around the 1750 Rio de Janeiro ;
i don't remember the farm name at the moment, but it is located in Iguaçu Velha ( the old part of Iguaçu Prefecture ) . the farm was totally ruinous, but 30 years back it was in a perfect state .
this was the very first vew ot the place ; i entitled the picture intending to make a pun, but i really don't know if i got it right ; in Portuguese ' bens ' mean also " properties ";
" tombado " has a homonym, so, here it has a double meaning : it could mean " tumbled" and also " protected by law " ;
so : properties protected by law ( for historical memory )
or : tumbled properties
arf arf !!
think in Portuguese it is a fantastic double meaning expression
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Messages:

i don't know why
(since i saw so little of it)
this does not feel
like brazil to me
animus - Jan 06, 2009

fab, fab, fab, fab..............................
maximorgana - Jan 07, 2009

Parece cenário de um filme...uma linda locação. Obrigada pelo elogio a minha foto. Quero que 2009 seja um ano camarada e doce para você, Johana!!!
maria9 - Jan 09, 2009

i love finding places like this, everything has its own story. the car, the ruins, even the power line. how were they built, why were they abandoned? each tells a story of the people who lived there, worked there
watermark - Jan 11, 2009

but i still don't understand...who is Ben, and where are his Tomatoes???
watermark - Jan 11, 2009

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