When I went to Italy a couple of years ago I was impressed that so many of the airports were named after atists, explorers and inventors: Marconi in Bologna, Verdi in Parma, da Vinci in Rome, Marco Polo in Venice, Galileo in Pisa and Vespucci in Florence.
Brazil seems to be moving in that direction, having changed the name of Rio de Janeiro's international airport to Tom Jobim International Airport, but I was especially pleased to learn that the new airport in Maceió, the capital of the Northeast state of Alagoas, is Zumbi dos Palmares International Airport. It's a belated honor for a man who played such an important and tragic role in Brazil's colonial history.
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