Your Sun is the Lover...

Cidade de amor e ventura
Que tem mais doçura
Que uma ilusão
Cidade mais bela que o sorriso
Maior que o paraíso
Maior que a tentação
Cidade que ninguém resiste
Na beleza triste
De um samba-canção

This beautiful city is renown for its women and in particular the one from Ipanema.

But in fact the city itself is likened to a beautiful woman in many songs by her adorers. This one by Noel Rosa, a native composer of the 1930’s, praises her sweetness, beauty and sensitiveness.

The setting for the city marvelous is one befitting a beautiful woman; dazzling curves of cobalt waters that borders a ruffle of white sandy beaches all encircling verdant forest that cling to the curves of seductive hills. Whatever the inhabitants may do this city, its natural beauty cannot be obscured. By day or by night this city will take your breadth away!

…your sun is the lover of your moonlit nights…