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[2013] Paranapiacaba Clock Tower

            Yesterday I posted a picture of the village's Clock Tower I took this year and complained about how I missed a camera with optical zoom, but I didn't realized I'd never posted a picture I took in 2013 zooming the Clock, with the mountain on the background, raining and even a little bird on the top of the mast and everything, so here it is. Shame on me...

About: In the mid-19th century, the São Paulo Railway Company, a privately owned British railway company, laid a snaking network of tracks over Brazil’s green mountains. In order to transport coffee beans from inland plantations to the port of Santos on the south coast, a railroad funicular was incorporated that could lift entire trains full of cargo over the undulating terrain. 

A British company provided the steam engines that drove the operation and also founded a workers’ village on the highest point in the area, called Paranapiacaba, meaning “a place to view the sea” in Tupi-Guarani. The small houses for railway and funicular employees were constructed from wood, in a style similar to those of British mining towns. 

Paranapiacaba’s civic buildings and larger homes were Victorian in design, and its train station is adorned with a clock tower in imitation of London’s Big Ben. 

The clock was manufactured in London by Johnny Walker Benson and is placed at the second Station of Paranapiacaba, inaugurated in 1900, lending the place, usually covered by the dense fog of the mountain range at dusk, a typically English character.

Source: World Monuments Fund and Unesco

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Taken in: Brasil / São Paulo / Paranapiacaba (show map)

Taken on: September 22, 2013

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ35, f/4.4, 1/30 sec, 86.4mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-FZ35
Aperture:	f/4.4
Exposure Time:	0.033 sec (1/30)
Focal Length:	86.4mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	PaintShop Pro 20.00
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