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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]
On September 10, 2013, the Municipal Prefecture of Belo Horizonte finally inaugurated the Kubitschek Residence Museum as a cultural space administered by the Municipal Culture Foundation. [8] The space came to join the Pampulha Modern Ensemble , which also includes the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi , the Pampulha Museum of Art, and the Casa ...
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.
The Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, called Greater Belo Horizonte, is the 3rd most populous of Brazil, after only Greater São Paulo (with 19,672,582 people, first in Brazil and 5th in the world) and Greater Rio de Janeiro (with 14,387,000 people).
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.
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]
Currently, the station's signal reaches 166 municipalities in Greater Belo Horizonte and parts of Zona da Mata and Oeste de Minas. In July 1995, the broadcaster opened its new studio complex in the Caiçara neighborhood, with 6,600 m 2 , which replaced the facilities that the broadcaster maintained in Centro and Savassi, where its commercial ...