Savassi
Savassi is a neighborhood in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Savassi is a neighborhood in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It is located at the Central-South zone city district. Savassi is known for having a large number of bars, pubs, clubs, cafés, bistros, diners, restaurants, nightlife and shopping commerce. The region is regarded as one of the most prestigious and sought-after areas in Belo Horizonte.
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Worth seeing in and around Savassi
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Estádio Independência
Estádio Raimundo Sampaio, more commonly known as Arena Independência, is an association football stadium located in the Horto neighborhood of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It was built in 1950 for the FIFA World Cup, held in Brazil.
3.8 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Praça da Liberdade
Praça da Liberdade is a public square and an architectural and landscape ensemble in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is located in the Savassi area, at the junction of Bias Fortes, Brasil, Cristóvão Colombo, and João Pinheiro avenues.
700 m · urban square in Belo Horizonte, Brazil · Wikipedia - 03praça Diogo de Vasconcelos
The Praça Diogo de Vasconcelos or Praça da Savassi is a public square of Savassi, in the city of Belo Horizonte. It is located at the confluence of the avenues Cristóvão Colombo and Getúlio Vargas.
0 m · square in Belo Horizonte, Brazil · Wikipedia - 04Praça Sete de Setembro
Praça Sete de Setembro, popularly known as Praça Sete, is a public square in the Centro of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is located at the intersection of Afonso Pena Avenue and Amazonas Avenue, two of the city’s principal thoroughfares, and is crossed by Rio de Janeiro Street and Carijós Street.
2.2 km · Public square in Belo Horizonte · Wikipedia - 05Praça Rui Barbosa
The Praça Rui Barbosa, also called Praça da Estação, is a square in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It has this name due to its proximity to Belo Horizonte's Central Station.
2.4 km · public square in Belo Horizonte · Wikipedia - 06Praça Raul Soares
The Praça Raul Soares is a major square of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The square is named in honor of Raul Soares de Moura, former governor of Minas Gerais.
2 km · square in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil · Wikipedia - 07Catedral de Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem (Belo Horizonte)
Our Lady of Good Voyage Church, long known as Our Lady of Good Voyage Cathedral, is a Catholic parish church and archdiocesan Eucharistic shrine in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The building opened as the cathedral of the Diocese of Belo Horizonte in 1923 and was consecrated as the metropolitan cathedral in 1932.
1.1 km · church in Belo Horizonte, Brazil · Wikipedia - 08Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes, Belo Horizonte
The Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes, also known as the Basilica of Belo Horizonte, is a Catholic church built in a predominantly neo-Gothic style, which is located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Its construction was completed around 1923.
1.1 km · church building in Belo Horizonte, Brazil · Wikipedia - 09Niemeyer building
The Niemeyer Building is a residential building located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer and constructed between 1954 and 1960. It is an iconic piece of Brazilian modernistic architecture.
600 m · building in Brazil · Wikipedia - 10Palácio da Liberdade
The Palácio da Liberdade is a historic government palace and cultural venue in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The building stands at the upper end of Praça da Liberdade, in the civic center designed after the state capital was moved from Ouro Preto to Belo Horizonte.
600 m · building in Belo Horizonte, Brazil · Wikipedia
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Getting to Savassi
- Airports
- Tancredo Neves (CNF), 34 km
- Stations
- Carlos Prates Station, 3.2 km · Lagoinha Station, 2.9 km · Santa Tereza Station, 3.3 km · Central Station, 2.3 km · Santa Efigênia Station, 2.5 km
- Rio De Janeiro → Savassi339 km · quickest by air, 5h 3m · R$340–510
- Rio de Janeiro → Savassi339 km · quickest by air, 5h 3m · R$340–510
- São Paulo → Savassi35 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · R$14–19
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Savassi
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Savassi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIt also serves for the Orange minibuses as well (as known as "Suplementar") Green buses serve BHBUS bus stations, going from a BHBUS station to downtown and then back or connecting two different BHBUS stations.
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Next door to Savassi
Savassi is 2 km from Belo Horizonte, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Belo Horizontemunicipality of Minas Gerais state, Brazil1.3 km
- Greater Belo Horizontehuman settlement in Brazil2.4 km
- Centroneighborhood in the Brazilian municipality of Belo Horizonte2.1 km
- Municipal Chamber of Belo Horizontecity council in Belo Horizonte, Brazil2.8 km