BELO HORIZONTE - MINAS GERAIS´CAPITAL Part One- English Poem

BELO HORIZONTE - MINAS GERAIS´CAPITAL
Part One- English Poem
SERIE: Contemporaneous

Poem number 1355
By Sílvia Araújo Motta

Belo Horizonte is a young city,
Capital of Minas Gerais-Brazil,
a city renowned for its hospitality
and its quality of inhabitants.

The transfer of the capital of MG
from the Ouro Preto to Belo Horizonte
symbolyzed the rupture of the monarchy
and the hope of the best republic.

It was the first planned city in Brazil,
inaugureted on December 12,1897.
Today is the third largest city in the country
with all the infrastructures of bigger cities.

Belo Horizonte, International Congress
26 de julho de 2007.

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