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Indians on the top of buildings.
Between the trees, the symbol of Minas Gerais' mother.
Even one of the main avenues in town has an unfamiliar history.
But who looks at it?
Every day is only rush, work, drive and walk around.
If you have some time, observe the city that we live
and you will find details of a Belo Horizonte that maybe you haven't seen.
Belo Horizonte wakes up in a hurry.
On this pace that almost runs, who can examine the city?
- Avoid the rush and take an attentive look, since life goes on.
And the city changes.
What it offers today in its monuments, buildings and curves
can reveal good surprises.
What the Indians on the Acaiaca building, for instance,
right downtown, represent for the city?
- The figureheads symbolize the "mineiro" community,
in its most genuine and original manifestation.
Because the Acaiacas were a Minas Gerais' tribe.
The building is telling us that and, besides the fact that
it marks an aesthetic and beautiful presence, it tells: We are "mineiros".
But observe the Acaiacas up there can be hard.
- I haven't even seen the Indian images.
And now that you've seen?
- Very pretty!
Close by, the Parque Municipal, grandiose, is impossible to be unnoticed.
- The park is very gorgeous. It's a gift from God in Belo Horizonte.
However, the workmanships presented inside,
delicately positioned between the trees…
Do you halt to admire?
- No, I don't have time. I have one hour to jog and I have to cover 5 km.
This period is too short to admire it.
Event that the workmanship that pay homage to Minas Gerais' mother is not tiny.
It is indicated by a sign and is huge,
just like the monument to the founders of the capital.
Bias Fortes, Afonso Pena, Aarão Reis and Augusto de Lima
gained an arena inside the park.
They have now an extra presence in the daily city rush to demonstrate that
the city was planned, idealized, imagined and dreamed.
City that the tourist loved to visit, precisely for its workmanships that reveal our history.
- That is a pride for who is from Minas Gerais; they were truly the founders.
Even one of the most famous city avenues has stories that surprises
even who pass here all the time.
Did you know that Contorno is only a nickname?
In fact, the legendary avenue has a different name.
The street-sweeper believed only when he heard it straight from a teacher.
- Officially it is called 17 de Dezembro.
- 17 de Dezembro?
Did you imagine?
- Never have. Why?
- It is the day when, during Bias Fortes government,
was officially signed the document to transfer
the state capital from Ouro Preto to Belo Horizonte.
So it stays like that: avenue…
- 17 de Dezembro.
And it is known as:
- Contorno. No one will recognize.
I have never imagined that it had that name.
- At each step, the city must show: that's you spot,
that's your story, that's your life and it is where you are!
Created by: Globo Minas
Subtitles by: www.belo-horizonte.travel