Liberty's Square/ Freiheitsplatz

One may think this blog is getting either too melancholic or too sentimental. But one of the things you're advised to do in order to have a cultural shock that doesn't kill but just get you stronger, is to really bid farewell to your homeplace.

That's why, before I part to a week of intense study, I'll blog about one of the most pitoresques places, we have here: the Liberty's Square. It is a meeting place in Belo Horizonte with no equal - not because it is the most beautiful place or because it's big or has any Faustian characteristic. Unlike many places marked by social distinction, genre or whatever, it is a meeting place for all inhabitants: teenagers who love heavy metal, runners, kids riding bicycles (it's more and more difficult to have an open safe place for them to play), elderly people reading their newspapers. Besides, Belo Horizonte is a city with too few squares and to have one which is quite democratic, at a certain extent, with nice museums around it, the State Library, a nice Cinema nearby, modern and old architecture in its surrounds...

The Square/ Der Platz: 

View of the bandstand with the 2014 World Cup Countdown

View of a building by Oscar Niemeyer. Loved the Spring, the bees buzzing around 

and smell of the flowers...

A path with old Christmas' decoration hanging on trees.

The Surroundings/ Die Umgebungen

The State Library

Detail of a building called "Junkie Mary", prior the Museum of Mineralogy 

Left: Museum of Mines and Metals / Right: Planetarium 

And to think that I lived nearby for more than a year!!! [sighs] 

You can check more photos of the Liberty's Square HERE.