On the picture Ambassador Amado greeting Mexican ambassador to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg Juan José Gómez Camacho.
By Baron Henri Estramant.
Brazil’s independence was celebrated with much style at the Residence of the Ambassador of Brazil to Belgium and Luxembourg on Monday, 7 September 2015.
Albeit the reception was held at noon, a couple of hundreds of ambassadors, diplomats, business people and aristocrats found the time to attend the prestigious event co-hosted by the bilateral Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, HE André Amado and the Head of Mission to the EU, HE Vera Machado.
Portugal claimed the territory of today’s Brazil in the year 1500, however, the first European settlers arrived firstly 30 years later. Independence was declared on 7 September 1822 by then Royal Prince, Dom Pedro de Bragança from the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves; thereby ending 322 years of Portuguese rule. Nevertheless King João VI was still recognised as the legitimate monarch of Brazil by a large number of Brazilians. It wasn’t until three years later, and after the Brazilian war of independence, that an official treaty with Portugal recognised the country’s independence under the reign of Dom Pedro I in capacity as “Emperor and Perpetual Defenser of Brazil”.
In the South American country the holiday is popularly known as “Sete de setembro”.
For more information:
Embassy of the Federative Republic of Brazil to Belgium and Luxembourg: http://bruxelas.
Mission of Brazil to the EU: www.itamaraty.gov.br/
EUBrasil Association: www.eubrasil.eu/
