Campo Grande, Brazil Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Nicknamed the “brunette city” because of its chestnut-coloured earth, CAMPO GRANDE has in less than fifty years been transformed from an insignificant settlement into a buzzing metropolis with a population of 650,000. Founded in 1889, the city was only made the capital of the new state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the late 1970s, since when it has almost doubled in size, though it retains a distinctly rural flavour: its downtown area manages to combine skyscraping banks and apartment buildings with ranchers’ general stores and poky little shops selling strange forest herbs and Catholic ex … more »