Photogallery of Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Three hundred thirty kilometers from worldwide famous Rio de Janeiro, tourists will find a place of spectacular beauty - Belo Horizonte. The city’s name means “Beautiful Horizon” in Brazilian Portuguese. The marvelous city amazes tourists with its lush vegetation. There are more than twenty parks in the territory of this settlement with a total of almost two million plants. Besides this, Belo Horizonte is famous for its futurist architecture. The history of Belo Horizonte started in 1701. Initially, there was a cattle farm on the site of the modern city. The area was developing quickly, and so new settlers started moving to this region. The peaceful and tranquil settlement was slowly growing in size. Everything was fine until the start of the rivalry between different regions of the country, which took place in 1893. For the country, this was a real threat of unrest in the state. In order to stop all tensions and arguments, the country’s authorities decided to move the capital to the small settlement on the site of modern Belo Horizonte. The settlement changed its name to Cidade de Minas. This marked the start of a new life for the town. A team of architects developed a new city layout that would turn a small settlement into a capital city. The government moved to Cidade de Minas in December 1897 despite the fact that many planned buildings were unfinished. This date is the official foundation date of the new capital that changed its name to Belo … Read further