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Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais





City of large and wooded avenues that impresses the visitors for its bold architecture. There's always something to do in that city, that which becames a reference in Brazil for its gastronomy, for its museums and its natural vocation for fun. Its rich history and development makes Belo Horizont a great business events center. The city was chosen as one of 12 headquarters of the 2014 world cup in Brazil. The outskirts of the city also offers lots of leisure to its visitors.

Dont miss!!

Gastronomy

You can visit bars and restaurants. Nothing better to know the city as its flavors. The city is very recognised for its good hospitality.

Pampulha art museum

With more than 1,5 thousand works by brazilian artists, it promoves temporary exhibitions.


Attractions

São Francisco de Assis church

Built in the margins of Pampulha's Lagoon, the church projected by Oscar Niemeyer is known as one of the most important works of modern brazilian architecture.



Natural History Museum

Gathers many samples of brazilian fauna and flora, including also fossils, minerals and archaeology artifacts.

Gastronomy

Minas Gerais is Known for its typical delicious gastronomy. At Belo Horizont you can find a large restaurant chain of regional food, including menus like "leitão à pururuca", "canjiquinha", "vaca atolada", "tutu de feijão", "feijão tropeiro" and many others. There are also many desserts, including "doce de goiaba", "doce de leite", "doce de abóbora", "doce de mamão". In Belo Horizonte you can also find international food, mainly italian and french.

Crafts

Minas Gerais craft is famous all over the country. In Belo Horizonte you can find many shops specialized in handcraft products, like ceramics os "Saramenha" and "Pedra Sabão". Regularly occurs many handcraft fairs in the city.

Information

Secretaria Estadual de Turismo
(31) 3270-8501

Climate
As Belo Horizonte is situated at 900 m high over the sea, its climate is considered as altitude tropical. At the summer, rains a lot and normaly the temperatures are high, contrasting with winter wich rarely rains and the temperatures are low.

Accesses

By land:
From Rio de Janeiro - BR-381
From São Paulo - BR-040
From Brasília - BR-040

By air
International Tancredo Neves airport receives flights from all brazilian capitals.

Distances from Belo Horizonte
Rio de Janeiro: 444Km
São Paulo: 602 Km
Brasília: 740 Km

Best times to stay in Belo Horizonte
In Belo Horizonte, the climate is very pleasant. As noted above, the winter is dry and the summer is rainy.

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