Line Tourism

Line Tourism is a special bus route that circulates in the main tourist spots of Curitiba. With it, you can visit the parks, squares and attractions. Considered one of the best in the country, Tourism Line runs every thirty minutes, covering about 45 km in about two hours. The tour starts at Praça Tiradentes, but you can join the tour at any of the points. To board you buy a card on the bus with five tickets worth $ 20.00 and is entitled to a loading and transfer to four. Meet the Line Curitiba Tourism and travel at all points. Please note: Departures from Tuesday to Sunday, starting from the square, from 9am to 17:30 every 30 minutes.

German Woods

Inaugurated in 1996, this woods have several facilities that reminds and promotes German’s traditions. The woods has 38 thousand square meter of native vegetation that belonged to Schaffer’s family farm. The replica of an ancient wooden church with neogotic details, built on 1933 in the region of bairro Seminário, has a concert hall called Bach’s Oratory. Other attractions are the João and Maria’s track that tells the Grimm’s brothers story, a Children’s Library, The Philosopher’s Tower, a wooden structure that allows a panoramic view of the city, Serra do Mar mountains and the Germanic Poetry Square, with a reproduction of Mila’s House front, a German building from the beginning of the last century originally located downtown.

Fountain of Memory 

The head of a horse sculpted in bronze, whose author is Ricardo Tod honors the ancient immigrants, which used to come downtown in order to sell their produces whose horses come to drink in a fountain placed at Largo da Ordem, very close to the Fountain of Memory.

Botanical Garden

Inaugurated in 1991, it is one of the most visited places in Curitiba. Created likewise the French Gardens, it unfolds a flower carpet to the visitors, right in the entrance. The green house built with a metallic structure contains botanical species and a water spring as well. The native vegetation is mixed with walking tracks. The Botanical Garden, managed by Gert Hatschbach attracts researchers from all over the world. It offers place to exhibitions, library and an auditorium. Behind the green house there is a permanent exhibition of Frans Kraycberg with 114 sculptures of that artist and environmentalist.

Municipal Market

Established on August 2, 1958 up to these days the Municipal Market has been the main and most traditional address for shopping in Curitiba. At stalls of vegetables and farm products and at delicatessens, the consumer finds produts as: beverages, cheeses and wines of several origins, medicinal herds, seasonings and spices, delicacies, preserved food, fish, embutidos (processed mixed meat products), exotic and with special cutting meats. One may have agreeable moments in the ethnic restaurants in the food court, which is the meeting place for many Curitibanos (original from the city of Curitiba, State of Paraná) from various generations.

Wire Theater - Stone Quarries Park Paulo Leminski 

The Wire Theater with its tubular structure and transparent roof it is one of Curitiba’s emblematic symbols. Inaugurated in 1992, it gives place to all kinds of events, from pop to classic and has capacity for 1648 spectators. Surrounded by lakes, native vegetation and cascades in a singular landscape, it belongs to the Stone Quarries Park and so does the Cultural Space Paulo Leminski , where staging of the Passion of Christ and other important events take place since 1989. It is able to accommodate 20.000 people. In the magic night of April 4, 1993 the place was a stage for the concert of the famous tenor José Carreras and the Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra to celebrate Curitiba’s 300th Anniversary.

Barigüi Park

Barigüi Park In native language even before Curitiba’s foundation, Barigüi meant “River of the Thorny Fruit”. Currently with 1.4 million of square meters, it is one of the city’s largest park and undoubtedly the most popular. The ancient “property-sesmaria” belonged to Mateus Martins Leme was transformed into a park in 1972. Not only the local residents and tourists enjoy the park, native animals such as Preás, socós, white herons, skunks, tico-ticos, sabiás among many others inhabit Barigüi Park. Many equipment are available to the public: barbecue facilities, kiosks, bicycle off-road tracks, airplane models runway, sport courts, gymnastics equipment, parking lots, restaurants, Car Museum, Exposition and Convention Center, Steam Train Station and Municipal Environment Headquarters building.

Tanguá Park

This park was inaugurated on November 1996 and it is part of the Barigüi river preservation project joining Tingüi and Barigüi parks. This park with an area of 450 thousand square meters has two quarries connected by a 45 meter tunnel that may be crossed on foot by a path over the water. The park has a cooper and bicycle track, snack bar, belvedere and Poty Lazzaroto garden.

Tingüi Park

Integrating part of the biggest environmental linear park in Brazil, at the margins of Barigüi River, it reminds the ancient native Indians, who used to live in this area, through the statue of Cacique Tindiqüera. Here is also located the Ukrainian Memorial, honoring the immigrants. It is a replica of an Orthodox Church, built in the state’s countryside, where an exhibition of pesankas and icons takes place.

Public Promenade 

In the past century it was denominated Botanical Garden. It was inaugurated on May 2nd 1886 by the President of Paraná Province Alfredo d’Escragnolle Taunay as the first public park in Curitiba. This place was the first big sanitation work in the city, transforming a bog into a green leisure area with lakes, bridges and islands. The first zoo of Curitiba shelters today small animals. Its gate is a copy of the one that existed in the Dog’s Cemetery in Paris.

Japan Square 

Built in honor of the children of that distant country, who dedicated themselves to the agriculture. There are 30 cherry trees all around the square sent by the Japanese Empire and also artificial Japanese style lakes. In 1993 the Japanese Portal, the House of Culture and the Tea House were built.

Santa Felicidade

Santa Felicidade is a region where some of the very first Italian immigrants arrived in Paraná. They dedicated themselves to farming, herbs, wine, cheese production and osier made furniture. The cemetery, located close to the church, with its unique pantheon of 18 neoclassic style chapels inscribed on the Heritage List. Santa Felicidade’s architecture is emphasized by the Casa dos Gerânios, Casa dos Painéis, Casa das Arcadas e Casa Culpi. Santa Felicidade is most known by its cuisine, with a large number of restaurants with colony’s food and wine, handicraft stores and osier made furniture.

Historical Sector 

The oldest buildings of the city are found in this place protected by a municipal decree of 1971. Among these buildings we find the house Romário Martins, of century XVIII and the Church of the Third Order of São Francisco dated of 1737, and also architectonics examples of German inspiration from the second half of century XIX. On Sunday mornings the old stones of Largo da Ordem and the wide sidewalk that gives access to Garibaldi Square, Rosário Church, Flowers Clock, Fountain of Memories and the Societat Giuseppe Garibaldi shape the scenery of the Handicraft Fair, an animated meeting point with live music.

Guaíra Theatre 

Living memory of the multifaceted culture of the curitibanos is one of the biggest theater in Latin America. It was first denominated as São Theodoro Theater inaugurated in 1894 in Dr. Muricy Street and renamed in 1900 as Guaíra Theater. It was demolished in 1930 and its rebuilding took place in 1952, already in the present site and it was connected to the 100th anniversary of Paraná political emancipation (December 19th 1953). It was finally finished in the 70’s. It has three auditoriums (the biggest one with capacity for 2173 spectators).

Paiol Theatre 

Symbol of the cultural change of Curitiba in the 70’s, it inaugurated the recycling process value buildings for the city’s collective memory. Built in 1906, the old gunpowder barn restored and recycled in the 70’s became an arena theater. It was opened in December 27th 1971 and baptized by the poet Vinicius de Moraes with whisky and music specially written for the occasion, “The Gunpowder Barn”. Also participated in the ceremony Toquinho and Marília Medalha.

Panoramic Tower  

This cell phone tower was built on the highest ground of Curitiba and it is 109.5 meters height, with 1.050 meters height above sea level, allowing a 360 degrees panoramic view of the city. The tower was inaugurated on December 17th 1991 and it is managed by Brasil Telecom and Instituto Municipal de Turismo. Video presentation, tourist information and a Telephone Museum are available in the tower.

Federal University of Paraná 

“Palace of Light”, according to the historian Alfredo Romário Martins, is the first Brazilian University. It was created in 1912 by Victor Ferreira do Amaral, Nilo Cairo, Alfredo Romário Martins and Dario Vellozo. It was first located in Comendador Araújo Street, but still in the 10’s it was moved to the presented address at Santos Andrade Square.

Free University oF Environment

Due to the Free University of Environment located in the middle of Zaninelli’s woods, Curitiba became the first city in the world to offer a space to study and transference of knowledge about the environment and ecology to the public. Its architectonic project reveals through rustic materials the four elements: earth, fire, water and air. Despite of the rare beauty its main goal is to bring about environmental consciousness to the citizens as a way of survival. It was created on June 5th 1991 and inaugurated by the French Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau in 1992.

Iguaçu Park Zoo

Since 1976, in the south west of the city, there is The Iguaçu Park Zoo - the biggest urban park of Brazil. Its area is 569 thousands square meters. In this zoo park you can see over a thousand animals, among native birds from all over South America, reptiles and other animals from several origins that have been living and have preserved in a great environment almost like their natural habitat.

Source Viaje Curitiba, URBS