Belo Horizonte - The Capital of pubs

Belo Horizonte is a Brazilian city, capital of Minas Gerais. According to the census conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 2010, its population is 2,375,444 inhabitants, being the sixth most populous city in the country. Belo Horizonte has been nominated by the Population Crisis Committee, the UN, as the city with the best quality of life in Latin America and the 45th among the top 100 cities worldwide. Today the city is the fifth largest GDP among Brazilian municipalities.

The city is known worldwide and has significant influence nationally and even internationally, either from the standpoint of cultural, economic or political. Has important monuments, parks and museums such as the Museo Arte da Pampulha, the Museum of Arts and Crafts, the Museum of Natural Sciences PUC Minas, Circuit Cultural Freedom Square, the Pampulha Architectural Group, the Central Market and Savassi and highly publicized events such as Creamfields Brazil Festival, the International Festival of Theatre, Stage and Street (FIT-BH), International Short Film Festival and the International Literatures in Portuguese. It is also nationally known as the "national capital of the bar," because there are more bars per capita than any other major city in Brazil.

Belo Horizonte is one of the greenest capitals in the country, which is one of the reasons it received the title of "Garden City". There are approximately 560,000 trees - a number that rises to 2 million, when considered parks and conservation areas. 27 parks to add about 500 squares and various green areas.

One of the biggest financial centers in Brazil, Belo Horizonte is characterized by the predominance of the tertiary sector in its economy. Over 80% of the city's economy focuses on services, with emphasis on trade, financial services, real estate and public administration.
The Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte has three airports. Confins Airport (Tancredo Neves International Airport), built in 1980, is one of Brazil's most modern and capable of receiving five million passengers each year with comfort and convenience. With the completion of the Green Line, the prediction is that the path of the center of Belo Horizonte Confins to be made ​​in 35 minutes.

Many renowned artists in the country and abroad came in Belo Horizonte. The city also annually hosts popular festivals that take thousands of people to the Mineirão stadium as Axé Brazil, music from Bahia, Brazil Rock and Pop, pop music. Belo Horizonte has also been acclaimed as one of the major poles of the electronic music world, performing various festivals genre with bands and DJs internationally renowned attracting tourists from all parts of the country.

With the choice of Brazil as host country of the FIFA World Cup 2014, Belo Horizonte was one of the cities pre-selected to host the games. In February 2009 the government of Minas Gerais presented the project of modernization of the Mineirão Stadium. The project presented ensured the preservation of the original facade (in the same manner in which it was carried out the reform of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin). In May, FIFA announced the 12 host cities for the World Cup 2014, confirming Belo Horizonte as one.