Welcome Angra: a week organised around the waterfront

A New Year celebration can organise a destination for more than one evening. Welcome Angra’s second-edition announcement, published in WAYFARER’s November 2025 archive, framed the event as a week rather than a single countdown.

The source associated Ricardo Salim and Bazinho Ferraz with the project in Angra dos Reis. Its editorial context was the destination’s history of summer gatherings and the effort to give that history a new, smaller-scale format.

A waterfront Meeting Point was described as the programme’s centre. Social encounters and activities were intended to share a setting beside the water, making the landscape part of the week’s structure rather than simply the view behind it.

The announced New Year evening was placed at Hotel Fasano, with food, drinks and production brought into the same arrangement. Those details belong to the proposal as it was published.

For an international reader, the archive introduces another coastal Brazilian setting beyond the better-known city celebrations. Its subject is a destination organised through a temporary social calendar. The distinction is useful, provided an old announcement is not mistaken for a current booking offer.