Curitiba: Brazil's Urban Planning Capital
Curitiba is Brazil's most celebrated city for urban design — the Bus Rapid Transit system, the tube stations, the parks network, and the Niemeyer Museum make it a global reference for sustainable city planning
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Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON)
The iconic Niemeyer Museum – known as "the eye" for its elliptical observation tower – is one of Brazil's finest art museums; Niemeyer designed it in the late 90s and it houses Brazilian and international art
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Metro bus stations
Curitiba's famous glass tube bus stations – which allow passengers to board buses at platform level like a subway – were copied worldwide; the system revolutionized public transport thinking in the 1990s
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Rua das Flores pedestrian area
The Rua das Flores pedestrian street in the city center was South America's first pedestrian street — the model for car-free commercial streets throughout Brazil
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Bosque Alemão (German Forest)
The German Cultural Forest – with a Hansel and Gretel fairytale trail – celebrates Curitiba's strong German immigrant heritage; the city has the largest German-Brazilian community in southern Brazil
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The Botanical Garden
Curitiba's Botanical Garden – with its Art Nouveau glass greenhouse – is one of Brazil's most photographed landmarks; the formal French garden and tropical greenhouse are accessible to all
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Tangua Park
The former limestone quarry turned into a Curitiba park is a technical landscape – quarry walls, footbridges and the tunnel waterfall under the road make it one of Brazil's most unusual parks