Por que BELO HORIZONTE MG é a MELHOR CIDADE DO Brasil?

Already know Belo Horizonte? Here is a creative city, also famous for its gardens, capital of pubs, and home to one of the best cuisines in Brazil. Belo Horizonte is home to almost 3 million inhabitants, an incredible, prosperous place with a good quality of life and some very strange habits.

If you've been curious this far, stay with me because today I'm going to prove to you that Belo Horizonte is the best city in Brazil. Hi people, Elzinga here. If you're already interested in what's ahead in this video, leave your thumb in the like button, subscribe to the channel, and come with me, there's a lot of stuff today.

Well, Belo Horizonte is that city that we hear about all our lives. It is surrounded by Serra do Curral and is considered a metropolis of significant national influence. It's a capital!

So that was to be expected. BH is a place with numerous tourist and cultural attractions. It is the third city in Brazil with the largest number of people working in creative activities.

It is the Brazilian capital with the best rates of cultural consumption and frequency of cultural activities. It has already been nominated by the UN Committee called Population Crisis Committee as the city with the best quality of life in Latin America. And it still has the, considered, best airport in Brazil.

You can already see that BH is much more than we know, right! So pay attention now because this is probably all going to be new. In Belo Horizonte, there is a law that prohibits any type of advertising from being made in the Contorno Av.

region. Think of something that the whole of Brazil should do. By the way, on this Avenue, all the streets change their name when they cross it, except for Itajubá St.

, there in Floresta Neighborhood. In the downtown, the streets that intersect with Afonso Pena Av. , have a very interesting logic.

Going up the street from the city's bus station, the streets are named after the states of Brazil in order from South to North. I suspect that whoever named the streets of BH has OCD, because in some neighborhoods there are patterns. In Coração Eucarístico the streets have names related to the Catholic Church.

There are others with names of astrology and astronomy. Others with professions and still another with tree names. By the way, there is a neighborhood called Funcionário which, curiously, is where the people full of money live.

And there's also another one with the name of Milionário, but then those who live there are the "funcionários (employees)". Creativity is definitely Belo Horizonte's middle name. "Belo Creativity Horizonte".

It does not stop there. The center of the capital has the layout of the streets inspired by the city of Washington, in the USA. There is also a street called Amendoim, very curious by the way, because supposedly it looks like a slight climb, but it is a slight descent.

So, when someone stops the car there, it's very strange to see the vehicle going up the hill all by itself. The explanation of this? Well, it's an optical illusion, because actually the descent is an ascent and vice versa.

There in the city is also where the Tiradentes Palace is located, simply the largest suspended concrete building in the world. It has a span of 147 meters and 26 meters wide. Just for comparative purposes, the MASP in São Paulo is considered one of the works that most challenge modern engineering and has only 74 meters of span.

And now tell me, if I went to your establishment and paid you using a R$3. 00 coin, would you accept it? Probably a Belo Horizonte inhabitant would accept it and be happier than ever In 1997, when BH completed 100 years of history, the Central Bank launched a commemorative silver coin worth R$3.

00 with motifs alluding to the history of Minas Gerais. Those who still have this coin can get a good bargain on the internet. By the way, did you know that the first "pay what you weigh" restaurant in Brazil and in the world was born from the hands of chef Fred da Mata Machado in Belo Horizonte in 1984?

I'm talking to you, man. This place exudes creativity. Hear what I'm telling you!

And those from outside don't understand, but the Belo Horizonte inhabitant is a person well off the curve too. They don't call an American cup an American cup. Over there, it's Lagoinha Cup.

Minas does not have a sea either, as you may know, but they prefer to say that the sea does not have Minas. In fact, despite not having access to the ocean, that doesn't mean they haven't adopted a little corner of the coast for themselves. And this corner is called Praia do Morro and is in Guarapari, Espírito Santo.

It doesn't even look like you left Minas Gerais. In fact, they say that the fact that Minas does not have a sea is the fault of the religious from Minas who always end the Our Father with: "but deliver us from the SEA, amen". But speaking of the food from Belo Horizonte, it is a summary of everything that Minas Gerais has to offer and that we can never reproduce at home.

No wonder BH took the title of Creative City of Gastronomy in 2019. The biggest highlight? Obviously, Minas cheese, which is recognized as a Brazilian Cultural Heritage by IPHAN.

But there are many others that are the darlings of the crowd, such as the famous cheese bread that has no equal outside Minas; tropeiro beans, a cultural heritage of BH; the liver with scarlet eggplant, which is more of a popular snack; the coxinha with catupiry; the guava jams and the creamy dulce de leche; and a "kaol", an acronym for "kachaça", with k, rice, egg and sausage, I don't know what this mix is ​​about, but people like it. Oh, and of course, we can't help but talk about coffee, since the product is grown in 451 of the 853 municipalities in the state. Arabica is the main one and corresponds to 99% of production.

But these people don't live on coffee alone. Belo Horizonte is the Capital of Bars too. Or as they say: "if there's no sea, let's go to the bar!

". And the biggest concentration of bars in Brazil is right in the city, so when you hear that mineiros are bohemians, there's the explanation. In 2009 they declared BH as the World Capital of Botecos.

In the central region alone there are more than 700. And by the way, it was in one of the most bohemian neighborhoods of the city, Santa Tereza, that the famous Clube da Esquina was born formed by Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges, Beto Guedes, Wagner Tiso and Fernando Brant. Surely after this video BH will be on your list of places to live or to walk around for a lifetime.

Let me briefly tell you the story of this corner of the world, then. The discovery of gold, back in 1665, made the first settlements begin to emerge over time. In 1707, the Arraial de Curral Del-Rei was born, from an enterprise by the pioneer João Leite da Silva Ortiz who was looking for gold, but which ended up becoming a great place to live.

As soon as he arrived, João built the Fazenda do Cercado and began to take care of a plantation and raise cattle. More people were arriving, and little by little this region became a stopping point. After that the village only grew.

Later… much later, in 1893, Curral began to gradually become Belo Horizonte, and, in 1897, it became the new capital of Minas Gerais, taking the place of the current Ouro Preto. Belo Horizonte is considered the first modern capital designed, having Paris and Washington as a reference, in addition to being the sixth largest city in Brazil. That's it.

I said it would be brief. Let's now go to the attractions of Belo Horizonte for you to convince yourself once and for all that this is the best city in Brazil. Starting with the more than famous Pampulha Complex, which since 2016 has been part of the Cultural Heritage of Humanity, this is a landmark of authentically Brazilian architecture.

The work is by the eternal Oscar Niemeyer, as you can imagine, and it served as a rehearsal for the conception of Brasilia by himself. And when talking about Pampulha Complex, what you should understand is that there are several things there, including capybaras and alligators that people don't know exactly where they came from and that live peacefully there in the lagoon, which in case you don't know is artificial and used to supply the city and reduce the floods there in the past. But anyway, some amazing places there are the Church of São Francisco de Assis, popular "Igrejinha da Pampulha", which was the last construction of the project made by Niemeyer, and that at the time of completion of the work left the city perplexed for not understanding that as a religious temple.

Also the Pampulha Art Museum, which was the first part of Niemeyer's project, and which before being a museum was called Pampulha Casino and attracted people from all over Brazil to the city. But this casino didn't last long because the then president of Brazil banned this type of game in the country. Also Casa do Baile, designed to be a dancing restaurant, which today is an Architecture and Urbanism Center.

The Kubitschek House with a butterfly wing roof in the same style as the Yacht Tennis Club. The Yacht Tennis Club itself, which was once a Golf Club, shaped like a moored boat. The Mineirão Stadium, stage of the fateful 7x1 by Germany, the 5th largest stadium in Brazil and which has a Brazilian Football Museum inside.

The Mineirinho Stadium. The Belo Horizonte Botanical Garden with more than 1,000 species of plants in 7 themed gardens. The São Francisco Aquarium with more than 3 thousand square meters.

The Pampulha Ecological Park. And Guanabara Park. I'm sure there's a lot more stuff than you thought, am I wrong?

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I do not know. Next, the Circuito Liberdade, considered the largest cultural complex in Brazil with several cultural spaces ranging from music, literature, plastic arts, cinema, mineralogy, science, entrepreneurship, astronomy and gastronomy. The biggest highlight there is the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, one of the 100 most visited museums in the world.

Some cool places there are the Minas Gerais Public Library; the UFMG Knowledge Space ; the Mines and Metal Museum; the Minas Gerais Vale Memorial; the Minas Gerais Academy of Letters; the Mineiro Museum; and the Palácio da Liberdade with gardens in the rose garden by Paulo Villon, a banquet hall in the Louis XV style, paintings in the Salão Nobre, and a large panel by Antônio Pereira. Other things to do in the city are the Serra do Curral Park with 10 viewpoints spread over an area of ​​400 thousand square meters, and from where you can see several tourist attractions in Belo Horizonte, such as Lagoa da Pampulha, Américo Renné Giannetti Municipal Park , Avenida Afonso Pena, Mineirão, Pico do Itabirito, Serra da Piedade, Morro do Pires, Morro do Elefante, Serra do Rola-Moça Park and many others. Another place is Praça do Papa, which he visited in 1980 and declared: "What a Beautiful Horizon!

". But he wasn't the one who named the city. The Burle Marx Ecological Park .

The Municipal Market, the most visited place in the city with a huge variety of all the Minas Gerais products you expect to find. The Palace of Arts; the Mangabeiras viewpoint; the Mangabeiras Park itself, with the largest green area in the city; the Bonfim Cemetery; the Santa Teresa Viaduct; the Tom Jobim Monastery Park; the statue of Christ the Redeemer at 1,402 meters of altitude. And also the Route of the Caves by Peter Lund, which in case you didn't know, BH is part of this incredible tourist itinerary.

The PUC Museum of Natural Sciences is the starting point of the route. Well folks, that's it for today. Hope you learned something new and enjoyed the video.

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