PRAÇA DA LIBERDADE
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Place de la Liberté, lined with palm trees, a meeting place for local residents, with new buildings in a variety of styles.
Belo Horizonte is a planned city, built ex nihilo from 1895, to replace the former capital of the state Vila rica de Ouro Preto, too enclosed in mountains. Freedom Square was inaugurated when the city was founded, between 1895 and 1897, to house the power of the state of Minas Gerais. Influenced by the English naturalist wave, it is lined with huge palm trees, and is very wooded in its center. Transformed according to the fashion of French gardens in the 1920s, it then took on the air of a small Versailles, gaining in symmetry and pretty statues. The buildings that border it follow the trends of the time, with their neoclassical elements and their grandiose eclectic style. The Palacio da Liberdade (Governors' Palace) is the most edifying example. Over the years, the square was enriched with new buildings of different styles. In the 1940s, the Palacio Cristo Rei introduced Art Deco. In the 1950s and 1960s, more modernist buildings were incorporated into the complex, such as the Niemeyer building and the Luiz de Bessa public library or the Casa Fiat. In the 1980s, the post-modernist building known as the Rainha da Sucata was inaugurated. This square has a real social role in Belo Horizonte, as it is the meeting place of all the inhabitants. On Sundays, it becomes a real athletics stadium, where athletes of all levels and ages come to jog.
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