The Polish community in Brasil is 155 years old this year
Polish people already left traces of their presence in Brazil in the XVII century. According to Polish government records, General Krzysztof Arciszewski fought alongside the Dutch against the Portuguese and Spanish in 1629 in Brazil, as part of the ongoing colonial conflicts.
Arciszewski also made ethnographic observations concerning the lives of local peoples and he prepared maps of terrain that were new to the Europeans. Arciszewski was commemorated with an obelisk in his honour in Recife in Pernambuco.
In the first half of the XIX century more and more Polish people visited Brazil but it was only in 1869 that the first official settlers arrived.
Sebastian Edmund Woś Saporski and Father Zieliński obtained concessions from the last Emperor of Brazil, Pedro II. This allowed them to begin Polish colonisation.
Artur Dutkiewicz - globe-trotting Polish jazzman
Artur Dutkiewicz is supporting the celebrations of the founding of a Polish community in Brazil with a solo tour of the country.
Artur Dutkiewicz.
Born in Pińczów in 1958, Artur Dutkiewicz is a Polish jazz pianist whose music inspires and is inspired by musical traditions from all across the world, including Polish traditions:
Sources: Polish Senate Documentation
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