1355- BELO HORIZONTE-MINAS GERAIS´CAPITAL -Part One- English Poem (40)SERIES: Contemporaneous

1355- BELO HORIZONTE-MINAS GERAIS CAPITAL -Part One- English Poem (40)SERIES: Contemporaneous

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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