15 Sights in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (with Map and Images)

Lagoinha Baptist Church is a charismatic Evangelical Baptist multi-site megachurch based in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais in Brazil. Márcio Valadão is the current senior pastor of the church. The church became known through one of its ministries, the worship ministry Diante do Trono, which is one of the world's largest ministries of praise, worship and mission. Some of the main services are broadcast live via Internet and also via their own TV and radio station: Rede Super. It is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, Brazil and Baptist World Alliance.

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Israel Pinheiro Square, better known as Praça do Papa, is an important square located in the Mangabeiras neighborhood, in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. It is located near the base of Serra do Curral, at the end of Avenida Agulhas Negras and at an altitude of more than 1,100 m. In its vicinity are other attractions of the city, such as the Mangabeiras Park, designed by Burle Marx and the Peanut Street, famous for the illusion that objects freely climb a slope.

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The Church of Saint Francis of Assisi is a chapel in Pampulha region of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. It was designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the organic modern style. It is the first listed modern architectural monument in Brazil and consists of four undulating concrete parabolas with outdoor mosaics. The interior hosts a mural by Candido Portinari, and the exterior features a landscape designed by Roberto Burle Marx.

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The Minas Gerais Public Archive is a unit of the Minas Gerais State Department of Culture and Tourism. It was created by the Minas Gerais Law No. 126, of July 11, 1895, during the administration of the President of the State Chrispim Jacques Bias Fortes, who sanctioned it with the referendum of the Secretary of Interior Affairs Henrique Augusto de Oliveira Diniz, to whose secretariat the body was linked. Its collection served as the basis for the later creation of the Mining Museum. He is currently part of the Circuito Liberdade.

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The State Public Library of Minas Gerais (BPEMG) is the main public library in Belo Horizonte, and the model library in the state of Minas Gerais. It is popularly called the "Liberty Square Library", because it is next to the square.

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The Museum of Arts and Crafts. is a Brazilian museum located in the city of Belo Horizonte. Inaugurated on December 14, 2005, it is the first Brazilian museum enterprise dedicated entirely to the theme of work, arts and crafts in the country. With an area of 9,000 m², the museum is installed in the historic complex of the former Central Station of the Central Railroad of Brazil, in Rui Barbosa Square, better known as Station Square and the former Belo Horizonte Station of the West Minas Railroad In the same place there is still a subway station and a railway branch today. It is one of the best structured museums in Brazil in terms of organization, structure for exhibitions and use of audiovisual resources.

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Juscelino Kubitschek Park is located in the Sion neighborhood, in the south-central region of Belo Horizonte. Founded in July 1990 and implemented in 1995, when it was still called Parque do Acaba Mundo, the JK park occupies an area of approximately 28 thousand square meters. It was revitalized in 2008.

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Better known as Assembly Square, Carlos Chagas Square is located in the Santo Agostinho neighborhood in Belo Horizonte. In the center of the square is the Church of Our Lady of Fatima, surrounded by gardens designed by Burle Marx. Large area equipped with playground and walking track. It is also home to the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais, hence the most common name. Currently in the square there are statues of three important figures for the state of Minas Gerais: Tancredo Neves, Ulysses Guimarães and Teotônio Vilela.

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The Duque de Caxias square is located in the Santa Teresa neighborhood, in Belo Horizonte. Inaugurated in 1937, it was called Praça de Santa Teresa. It received its current name in 1993. Located at the intersection of Marmóre, Estrela do Sul and Tenente Vitorino streets, it is a well-tree-lined square with plenty of leisure for the whole family. Around it are several bars and restaurants, being a meeting point for several bohemians in the city of Belo Horizonte.

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The MM Gerdau - Museum of Mines and Metal, is a Brazilian museum located in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. The museum is part of the Praça da Liberdade Cultural Circuit, having been inaugurated on March 22, 2010 with an architectural project by Paulo Mendes da Rocha and a museographic project by Marcello Dantas.

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The Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes, also known as the Basilica of Belo Horizonte, is a Catholic church built in a predominantly neo-Gothic style, which is located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Its construction was completed around 1923. The author of the project was Manoel Tunes, and the works were made by Antonio Gonçalves Gravatá. In 1958 he was elevated to Basilica by decision of Pope Pius XII.

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Located in the northeast region of Belo Horizonte, it has 15,930.00 m² of fully surrounded area. Its creation took place in 1991 through municipal decree, with the name of Parque da Matinha. Failure to interpret later legislation made the name "Ecological Reserve of the Union neighborhood" was used to refer to the same place, even in old leaflets and communications of the Belo Horizonte City Hall; Such nomenclature, however, is not official.

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The Minas Gerais Memorial Museum Vale is an artistic and cultural museum dedicated to the traditions of the people of Minas Gerais located in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. The old building of the Secretariat of Finance was restored and adapted to show the public the history of Minas Gerais. Patrocinated by Vale, which invested $ 27 million, the memorial has a project to restore Flávio Grillo. It was inaugurated on November 30, 2010 and is part of the Cultural Circuit Praça da Liberdade.

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Cine Theatro Brasil, currently called Cine Theatro Brasil Vallourec, is a historic building in Belo Horizonte, built in 1932 in Praça Sete de Setembro to function as the main cinema and largest theater in the city. It is a large 11-story building whose curvilinear angular façade marks the corner of Amazonas Avenue and Carijós Street. Designed by architect Alberto Murgel, it is one of the precursors of reinforced concrete and features a stone powder façade, a typical finish of the art deco architectural style.

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Professor Otávio Magalhães Street is a street in the neighborhood of Mangabeiras, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It is a tourist spot in the capital of Minas Gerais due to the optical illusion caused by the topography of the place where an apparent slope is, in fact, a slope.

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