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Campos do Jordao Winter Festival in Campos do Jordao
Campos do Jordao's mountain winter becomes the backdrop for one of Brazil's most established classical music festivals, running each July with more than five decades of history under Fundacao Osesp. Concerts fill the open-sided Auditorio Claudio Santoro and venues across town, paired with a training program that draws young musicians from across Brazil to study alongside visiting conductors and soloists during the coldest weeks of the Brazilian year.
High in the Serra da Mantiqueira, where Campos do Jordao's cool climate has long attracted visitors escaping Sao Paulo's heat, a classical music festival has run for more than five decades and turned a mountain resort town into one of Latin America's more unlikely destinations for orchestral music.