X-Nico

16 unusual facts about Belo Horizonte


A Time for Champions

The losing streak ended in 1950 when a U.S. team featuring five St. Louisans on the 11- player roster beat England’s powerhouse team 1-0 in a spectacular, surprise victory in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Arthur Drewry

Drewry's is famous for his role in the England v United States game in which the English lost to the rank outsiders in the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Belo Horizonte.

Associação Atlética Caldense

On November 22, 1968, the club played their first match in Belo Horizonte city, against Cruzeiro at Independência stadium.

Brazilian Institute of Family Law

The Brazilian Institute of Family Law or IBDFAM (from Instituto Brasileiro de Direito de Família, in Portuguese) is a non-profit civil association founded on October 25, 1997, in the city of Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, during the First Congress of Brazilian Family Law.

Cultura Inglesa

The Associação Brasileira de Culturas Inglesas (Culturas Inglesas Brazilian Association), widely known simply as Cultura Inglesa (English Culture) is an English-teaching franchise founded in 1934 and with branches present in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Goiânia and their surroundings.

Estadio de Liga Deportiva Universitaria

Built between 1995 and 1997, the stadium hosted its first match on March 6, 1997 in a game between LDU Quito and Atlético Mineiro of Belo Horizonte.

Exaltado

In the earlier recording Exaltado year, the band released the mining Diante do Trono album, recorded in the Lagoinha Baptist Church, in Belo Horizonte.

Mauro Boselli

He also helped the team by scoring the winning goal in the tournament's final against Cruzeiro, in Belo Horizonte.

Nenad Bjeković

He scored on his debut for the national team in a friendly match against Brazil in Belo Horizonte on 19 December 1968.

Rodrigo Janot

Rodrigo Janot Monteiro de Barros (born September 15, 1957, Belo Horizonte) is the General Prosecutor of Brazil.

Shane Jett

Fluent in three languages, Jett spent two years in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, working for Global Options International.

Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional

The Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática Aplicada e Computacional (Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics, SBMAC) was created on November 1, 1978 at the First National Symposium on Numerical, held on the premises of the Institute of Exact Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência

In the next meetings, in Curitiba (1950) and Belo Horizonte (1951), increasing participation and enthusiasm followed, with the Brazilian Academy of Sciences first involvement, as well as of other scientific societies.

TeleKommando

They performed at clubs, festivals and artistic events in Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Portugal such as T.E.M.P. (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Skol Beats (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Eletrônika, (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Motomix (Sao Paulo, Brazil), FILE Hipersonica (Sao Paulo, Brazil), VJBr (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Dezcalabro (Lisbon, Portugal).

TeleKommando Scherz is actually formed by Nacho Durán (Oviedo, Spain), Mariana Rillo (Bahía Blanca, Argentina), George Queiroz (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Dirk Böll (Essen, Germany), Alessandra Cestac (São Paulo, Brazil) and Camilla Ribas (Sao Paulo, Brazil), working with video, design, photography, programming, vjing, djing, performance and urban intervention.

Trolleybuses in Rosario

These vehicles had 0 km on the odometer, but had been kept in storage since being manufactured in Brazil in 1987 for a trolleybus system in Belo Horizonte that had not ultimately been completed.


Alphaville, São Paulo

Beginning in the 1990s, the company, now renamed Alphaville Urbanismo, expanded its developments to several other cities in Brazil, such as Aracaju, Campinas, São José dos Campos, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Goiania, Curitiba, Londrina, Maringá, Salvador, Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte, Natal, Gramado, Manaus, and others, as well as to Portugal (in Cascais).

Alvimar de Oliveira Costa

Alvimar Perrella de Oliveira Costa (born in 1961 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais) was the former president of Cruzeiro Esporte Clube of Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais and he was reelected for a further period of three years, which began in 2003 and end in 2008.

Antonio Roque Gobbo

Antonio also appeared in the book,Contos dos Contos - Narrativas Inspiradas na Bíblia (The Tales of Tales - Narratives Inspired by the Bible)(2005, Mazza Edições, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil), a book composed of 10 short stories, all from different authors, one of the tales written by Antonio.

His collectioon reached a peak or around 4800 items, and so he decided to create the "Biblioteca Nacional de Histórias em Quadrinhos"(National Library of Comic Books), which existed between 1987 and 1992 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

Athos Bulcão

By the 1940s, he assisted Candido Portinari with the "São Francisco de Assis" painting at the Pampulha Church, in Belo Horizonte.

Buddhism in Brazil

It maintains affiliated groups in Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Curitiba, and has invited a large number of international teachers through the years.

Caio Vianna Martins

In the early hours of December 19, 1938, Martins was travelling with a group of Scouts from Belo Horizonte to São Paulo, when their passenger train collided head-on with a freight train near the city of Barbacena, resulting in many injuries and approximately 40 deaths.

Cléber Américo da Conceição

Cléber, full name Cléber Américo da Conceição (born 26 July 1969 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais), is a former Brazilian football player at the position of defender.

Colégio Militar

The Portuguese Colégio Militar gave birth to a net of twelve military schools in Brazil (Porto Alegre, Santa Maria, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Juíz de Fora, Salvador, Recife, Fortaleza, Manaus, Brasília and Campo Grande) built in cooperation with the Portuguese experience of a centenary school with high levels of success.

Environmental issues in Brazil

Some cities currently considering such projects are Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, São José dos Campos, São Bernardo do Campo and others.

Estádio Urbano Caldeira

before=Estadio Ciudad de Lanús, Lanús
Mineirão, Belo Horizonte|

Gustavo Gianetti

Gustavo Cabral Narciso Gianetti (born May 21, 1979 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a male model and beauty pageant contestant who was elected Mister World in 2003.

Light S.A.

Currently the controlling stake in Light is owned by CEMIG, an electric company based in Belo Horizonte.

Mineirão

On February 25, 1960, the government of the Union and the Federal University of Minas Gerais gave Minas Gerais land in the neighborhood of Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, for the construction of the stadium.

Pasquale Gravina

Gravina played 284 times for Italian national volleyball team, for which he made his debut in 1990 at Belo Horizonte against Brazil.

Ribeirão Arrudas

Although most of the sources that make this important tributary of the Rio das Velhas are still clean, almost all sewage from Contagem and from Belo Horizonte is being dumped into Arrudas, which also jeopardizes Rio das Velhas Basin and Rio São Francisco Basin.

The rapid and disorderly Urbanization of Contagem Belo Horizonte and later the construction of avenues to alleviate traffic in Belo Horizonte had removed the green on the banks of Arrudas, contributing to the increase in temperature in the city.

Arrudas is a stream that begins its course in Contagem, goes down through Belo Horizonte.

Rio Sul Serviços Aéreos Regionais

Rio Sul Serviços Aéreos Regionais operated services to the following scheduled domestic destinations (at January 2005): Caxias do Sul, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Londrina, Maringá, Passo Fundo, São Paulo and Vitória.

Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo

Located in the Doce river ("Rio Doce) basin, Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo is 190 km from Belo Horizonte, by the MG-010, BR-381 and BR-120.

Sete Lagoas

In 2010 and 2011, Arena do Jacaré serves as a home stadium for Atlético-MG, Cruzeiro and América-MG, as both Belo Horizonte stadia - Mineirão and Independência - are going through reforms.

Transportes Aéreos Nacional

It was authorized to function on February 26, 1947, and the first regular flights took off in 1948, from Belo Horizonte, the headquarters of the airline, to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Cuiabá using its first two Douglas DC-3/C-47.

Victor Irineu de Souza

Victor Irineu de Souza or simply Victor (born 3 April 1989 in Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for IFK Ölme.

Walter Neves

Neves analyzed the circa 10,000-year old skull "Luzia" found near Belo Horizonte, Brazil, revealing morphological characteristics that differ significantly from typical Amerind remains.

Yale Atlético Clube

Yale eventually split and part of it became the Palestra Itália of Minas, a team which was created to compete with many of the bigger teams in Belo Horizonte like America, Atlético, and Yale itself.