Theme day: Passageway

The picture shows the passageway from the Paço da Liberdade Coffee Shop to the Borges de Macedo Square and the Arcadas da Liberdade in Curitiba.

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Performance at the Paço da Liberdade

I don't know why, but in front of the Paço da Liberdade when I was taking pictures on a weekend, I saw a group of people singing typical northeast of Brazil songs, dressed in colorful clothes and rehearsing a group of people who appeared to have been rounded up among the passing ones, for some kind of shooting.

Água para o Morro statue

At the square José Borges de Macedo (first mayor of Curitiba), which is in the back of the "Paço da Liberdade" (old town hall and the old municipal market), we will find the "Arcadas do Pelourinho" (where flowers, magazines and coffee are sold) and the fountain Maria Lata D'Água, inaugurated on 15 May 1996. At the fountain the sculpture "Água para o Morro" made by Erbo Stenzel in 1944 is installed.

Generoso Marques Square

The name of the square is a tribute to Generoso Marques Parana (1844-1928), the 1st Provincial Republican President, elected by the Constituent Assembly of Parana in 1891. The Generoso Marques Square is surrounded by old buildings from the period of eclecticism, one of which bearing the inscription " Tigre Royal". Across the square stands the Paço da Liberdade. At that square we will also find the statue of the Barão do Rio Branco, a great Brazilian who during the first republican period (until 1930) resolved almost all issues of borders with other countries.

O Paço da Liberdade

On February 24th 1916 was inaugurated the new building that hosted the city hall of Curitiba until 1969 The Paço da Liberdade (Liberty Hall).

It also hosted the Paranaense Museum from 1973 to 2002. Building of eclectic architecture with art nouveau elements represented mainly by canopies of iron, the design of the wooden doors and windows.

The Paço da Liberdade was reopened on March 29, 2009, as part of the celebrations of 316 years of Curitiba.