Travel guide
Belo Horizonte
Bar culture and modernist design
🗓️ Best time: April–September💰 Budget · ~$65/day📍 Brazil
Bar culture and modernist design
A big, welcoming mountain-ringed city in Minas Gerais — Brazil's bar capital famous for its "botecos", Oscar Niemeyer's lakeside Pampulha complex, hearty comfort food, and colonial gold towns nearby.
Signature local dishes worth seeking out.
A metro line and ride-hailing.
Day-trip to Inhotim — a vast open-air contemporary-art park set in tropical botanical gardens.
Use ride-hailing at night, avoid displaying valuables, and stick to well-touristed areas.
Legendary boteco (neighborhood bar) culture.