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Pampulha

This 1940s neighborhood has some of the highlights of Brazil modern architecture, including the São Francisco de Assis Church, designed by the famous architect Oscar Niemeyer (designer of the United Nations building in NYC and also Brasilia, Brazil's capital).

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Why go

The building is not shocking by itself, until you realize it was meant to be a church. Not surprisingly, the Catholic Church refused to consecrate it for more than one decade. Next to the church, there's the Parque Guanabara, an amusement park that is small, but worth visiting.

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Nearby

  1. Parque Guanabara

    Parque Guanabara

    theme park · 3333 Avenida Otacílio Negrão de Lima, 31365-450, Belo Horizonte

    Photo: Eduardo Gabão · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

  2. Praça Rui Barbosa

    Photo: Bernardo Gouvêa · CC BY 3.0 · source

  3. Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem (Belo Horizonte)

    Photo: Paulo SP/ Wikimedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

  4. Mineirinho

    Mineirinho

    attraction

    Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Cidcn assumed (based on copyright claims) · CC BY 2.5 · source

  5. Praça Raul Soares

    Photo: VPCF · Public domain · source

  6. Praça Raul Soares

    Praça Raul Soares

    park · Belo Horizonte

    Photo: VPCF · Public domain · source

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