Boca do Brilho

Since I moved to Curitiba with my family, next to the playground of Osório Square, high and comfortable armchairs lined up, where you could quietly read a newspaper and get a shoe shine. From up there you could watch the people pass by, chat with the shoe shiner and have a moment of pure relaxation.

Today the site was organized and regulated by the Prefecture of Curitiba, creating the "Boca do Brilho", which employs 19 shoeshiners of the Professional Association of Shoeshiners of Curitiba, an entity that exists in more than three decades.

The view from the top of the chairs is not the same anymore, but you can still have a nice chat, a good reading and a very nice glow on your shoe.

An outdoor living room

Besides the Boca do Brilho and close to the point where the Osório Square and Rua XV meet, we can find a few wooden benches where pedestrians can relax and where the elderly (like my parents usually do) can take a break on their walks to recover. This same configuration of seats can be found all along the Rua das Flores. Curitiba takes good care of its pedestrians.