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The Praça Sete de Setembro (English: 7 September Square), often called Praça Sete, is a square in downtown Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. [1]It is located at the intersection of two major avenues, Afonso Pena and Amazonas, and by the streets Rio de Janeiro and Carijós.
The Praça Raul Soares (English: Raul Soares Square) is a major square of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The square is named in honor of Raul Soares de Moura, former governor of Minas Gerais. It is situated at the confluence of four major avenues: Amazonas, Augusto de Lima, Bias Fortes and Olegário Maciel. [2]
Sign showing 100 years of the institution, and announcing the transformation to Technological Federal University (Universidade Tecnológica Federal) soon.The Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (Portuguese: Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, CEFET-MG) is an education center located in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
Belo Horizonte [5] is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.3 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, containing a population of 6 million. [6] It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas.
With its distinctive curved shape and horizontal concrete brise-soleil, the building is considered an icon of modernist architecture in Brazil. [3] Niemeyer was inspired by the curves of the mountains around Belo Horizonte when designing the building. [4] The 12-story structure contains 22 apartments of various sizes and layouts. [5]
The Casa do Baile (English: "Ball House") is an architectural landmark in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.It is part of the Pampulha Modern Ensemble, a complex of buildings constructed around Lake Pampulha in the 1940s that represents some of Niemeyer's earliest works in his distinctive modernist style utilizing curved forms.
Manaus was the first Brazilian capital to receive electricity. Financed by rubber, the Belle Époque of the Northern region began in 1871, mainly centred on the cities of Belém (capital of the state of Pará) and Manaus (capital of the state of Amazonas), known as the Paris of the Tropics or Paris n'America, and was a period marked by intensive modernization of both cities.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil Coordinates: 19°55′00.45″S 43°56′02.28″W / 19.9167917°S 43.9339667°W / -19.9167917; -43.9339667 The Praça Rui Barbosa (English: Rui Barbosa Square ), also called Praça da Estação (Station Square), is a square in Belo Horizonte , Brazil.