Penha
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English
Proper noun
Penha
- A municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil
- A district of São Paulo, Brazil
- A neighborhood of Zona Norte district, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Anagrams
French
Proper noun
Penha m
- A municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Penha (São Paulo, Brazil)
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter XI, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 109; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:
- Sur le talus descendant vers le Tamanduatehy et qui domine les quartiers populaires du Braz et de la Penha, subsistaient encore en 1935 quelques ruelles provinciales et des largos : places carrées et herbues, entourées de maisons basses à toit de tuiles et à petites fenêtres grillagées, peintes à la chaux, [...]
- — On the slope which leads down to the Tamanduatehy and overlooks the working-class districts of Braz and Penha, there still remained, in 1935, a few small provinvial streets and largos, grassy squares surrounded by low, tiled and whitewashed houses with small barred windows.
Portuguese
Proper noun
Penha
- Penha (a municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
- Penha (a district of São Paulo, Brazil)
- Penha (a neighborhood of Zona Norte district, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)