Qualla: Viçosa, Minas Gerais https://qualla.com/vicosa-minas-gerais en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/3/9/vicosa-minas-gerais-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Viçosa, Minas Gerais https://qualla.com/vicosa-minas-gerais Viçosa, Minas Gerais: Introduction https://qualla.com/vicosa-minas-gerais/ Photo credit Mateus S. Figueiredo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Artur da Silva Bernardes was born in Viçosa in 1875, became mayor, then governor, then in 1926 - while serving as President of Brazil - founded an agricultural school in his hometown. A century later, the Federal University of Viçosa dominates the landscape so completely that the city's economy, architecture, and daily rhythm all pulse to the academic calendar. Some places get lucky. Viçosa got a hometown boy who remembered to send the school home.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/3/9/vicosa-minas-gerais-wp/7h39-vi-osa-minas-gerais-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Viçosa, Minas Gerais: A Chapel at the Beginning https://qualla.com/vicosa-minas-gerais/ Photo credit José Marcondes Borges, Public domain. On March 8, 1800, Father Francisco José da Silva received permission from the Bishop of Mariana to erect a hermitage honoring Saint Rita of Cascia on what is now Passos Street. The chapel marked the first permanent structure in a region the Portuguese Crown had officially forbidd...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/3/9/vicosa-minas-gerais-wp/7h39-vi-osa-minas-gerais-a-chapel-at-the-beginning.mp3 0:06 2 full Viçosa, Minas Gerais: Iron Train, Coffee, and Newcomers https://qualla.com/vicosa-minas-gerais/ Photo credit José Marcondes Borges, Public domain. On December 21, 1885, the Leopoldina Railway reached Viçosa - though the station sat six kilometers from the center, accessible only by ox cart or carriage. That inconvenience lasted almost thirty years until a new station opened in the city proper on August 21, 1914. The railroa...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/3/9/vicosa-minas-gerais-wp/7h39-vi-osa-minas-gerais-iron-train-coffee-and-newcomers.mp3 0:06 3 full Viçosa, Minas Gerais: The University That Ate the Town https://qualla.com/vicosa-minas-gerais/ Photo credit José Marcondes Borges, Public domain. The Higher School of Agriculture and Veterinary Science opened in 1926 under its first director, Peter Henry Rolfs, an American agronomist Bernardes had recruited from Florida. Rolfs brought with him the three-fold model of "Teaching, Research, and Extension" that would eventuall...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/3/9/vicosa-minas-gerais-wp/7h39-vi-osa-minas-gerais-the-university-that-ate-the-town.mp3 0:06 4 full Viçosa, Minas Gerais: Growing Pains https://qualla.com/vicosa-minas-gerais/ Photo credit José Marcondes Borges, Public domain. The city now hosts roughly 500 academic and scientific events each year, drawing researchers from across Brazil and abroad. TecnoParq, Minas Gerais's first technology park, opened in 2011 on the site of a former agricultural school. A regional hub of nearly 200,000 people comes t...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/3/9/vicosa-minas-gerais-wp/7h39-vi-osa-minas-gerais-growing-pains.mp3 0:06 5 full Viçosa, Minas Gerais: Vila Giannetti https://qualla.com/vicosa-minas-gerais/ Photo credit José Marcondes Borges, Public domain. On the UFV campus sits Vila Giannetti, a residential village designed for professors in the 1920s. It is one of the few examples of Modernist urbanism in the Brazilian interior - a rare sight in a country where Modernism usually belongs to the coast and the capitals. The village ...

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