CURITIBA, Brazil -- It was the briefest of trips but one I did willingly: a quick three-day journey across the South Atlantic to Brazil. 22 hours of flying to spend 48 hours in Curitiba — a metropolitan city of 3.5 million people and the state capital of Parana, in the subtropical south of the country. Curitiba is more than 300 years old. Colonised by European settlers from Germany, Italy, Poland and Ukraine, these nationalities still have strong roots here. In the heart of South America, this city has a distinctly European feel of which they are very proud.
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