Cafés
Around the square.
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Praça da Savassi, officially Praça Diogo de Vasconcelos, is the heart of Savassi, Belo Horizonte's best-known shopping and nightlife district, where Avenidas Cristóvão Colombo and Getúlio Vargas meet Rua Pernambuco and Rua Antônio de Albuquerque. Its official name honours the politician and historian Diogo de Vasconcelos, a pioneer of heritage protection in Minas Gerais regarded as Brazil's first art historian. The name everyone actually uses comes from the Savassi bakery that stood on the corner of Rua Pernambuco and Avenida Cristóvão Colombo and gave its name to the whole district. The bakery's original awning could still be seen on the site for years, until it was removed when a café opened there. Today the square is a lively meeting point for the city: families shopping and sitting in cafés and restaurants by day, and young people filling the bars and pavements on weekend nights. The square and its neighbouring streets have been redesigned to give more room to pedestrians, with shops and bookshops all around, and it makes a good start for a walk to nearby Praça da Liberdade.
Around the square.
Bars and pavements.
A few steps away.
Junction of Avenida Cristóvão Colombo and Avenida Getúlio Vargas, Savassi, Belo Horizonte
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