Paraná · Brazil Capital
In the destination Curitiba and Paraná Coast.
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The city
Curitiba brings together parks, gardens and cultural venues in a cityscape shaped by architecture. You can alternate outdoor walks with museums and strolls through the historic center.
3 places to stay in Curitiba.
3 places picked to eat.
What to know before you go.
The local experience
The city's best-known landmark, with its metal-and-glass greenhouse in front of geometric French-style gardens. It has a botanical museum and the Jardim das Sensações, designed to be explored blindfolded.
Discover Jardim Botânico de Curitiba
A theater with a tubular frame and a transparent roof built over a lake, inside a former quarry. The setting of forest and water around it makes the building an attraction in itself.
Known as the Museu do Olho for the shape of the annex designed by Niemeyer, it hosts art, architecture and design exhibitions. It is one of the largest exhibition spaces in Latin America.
Opened in 1996, it occupies the site of two former quarries closed in the 1970s, between the Pilarzinho and Taboão neighborhoods. It has a lake, an artificial tunnel and a viewpoint in the Jardim Poty Lazzarotto (garden), about 65 meters above the lower lake.
An area of fifteen blocks in the São Francisco and Centro neighborhoods, with 18th- and 19th-century mansions showing Portuguese and German influence and the Igreja da Ordem Terceira de São Francisco. On Sundays, since 1973, it hosts the traditional Largo da Ordem crafts fair.
Discover Largo da Ordem e Setor Histórico
In 1972, its central stretch became Brazil's first pedestrian-only street, with petit-pavé mosaic paving and flower beds. The nickname Rua das Flores recalls the street's 19th-century name, before it was renamed in honor of the Proclamation of the Republic.
Discover Rua XV de Novembro (Rua das Flores)
Created in 1972 as a linear park to control flooding and protect the forest along the Barigui River, it covers about 1.4 million square meters and has a 230,000-square-meter lake. Walking paths and a bike path circle the lake, where capybaras are a common sight.
A neighborhood founded by immigrants from northern Italy, mostly from Veneto and Trentino, with a concentration of Italian restaurants, wineries and craft shops. It preserves late 19th-century buildings such as the Casa Culpi, from 1887, and the Casa dos Gerânios, from 1891.
