Se é samba ou sol que você está atrás aconselho a pular esta cidade de 1,75 milhões de pessoas, que é mais conhecida como modelo de planejamento urbano brasileiro.
Você não pode beber água de coco -, mas o seu ônibus irá levá-lo onde você quer ir. Se isso soa enfadonho, há muito o que admirar em um dos poucos lugares do país que parece levar a sério o lema da bandeira nacional: Ordem e progresso.
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Eliz and Tais look over: “Why don’t you sit with us?” It is 30 minutes into Germany’s thrilling game with Ghana, and the only free space in Bar Saccy in Largo da Ordem, Curitiba’s historical colonial district, is by a narrow shelf near the toilet.
Actually that is not strictly true: there is standing room all around, but when you are turned away from a bar in Curitiba – “Absolutely packed,” said one owner – it only means all the tables are taken. Standing is not encouraged, as though the act may disrupt the equilibrium of one of Brazil’s most well-planned and progressive cities.
Eliz and Tais are wearing Germany jerseys and scarfs – Eliz has a German husband and both women have German ancestry. They are living, breathing specimens of the European migrant influence for which the far south of Brazil is known.
As it happens Eliz’s sister is living in Dublin, and Tais, whose complexion would not be out of place in Hamburg or Berlin, hopes to go study English in Ireland soon. As Ghana threaten a stunning upset, they are human parcels of tension and agony with only Germany on their minds.
Somersault celebration
Miroslav Klose’s equaliser averts disaster and everyone laughs as his somersault celebration doesn’t quite come off. We go outside, plan a mini-sightseeing tour. Across the cobbled street groups of Australian and German fans are crowded around the TV set outside Largo’s Bar. Next door, the queue to get into the area’s well-known German bar has finally eased.
Tais goes to her car to get a coat – winter time has officially just begun and in Curitiba at this time of year you need to wrap up. The city – capital of Paraná state – sits inland on a plateau more than 900 metres above sea level and its temperate climate is captured by the “I heart Curitiba” T-shirts that feature a heart symbol made up of different weather symbols: Sun, rain, frost. A cancelled flight last week due to fog drove home the message loud and clear.
If it’s samba or sunshine you’re after you might be advised to skip this city of 1.75 million people, which is better known as the poster-boy of Brazilian urban planning. You might not drink from a coconut – but your bus will bring you where you want to go. If this sounds tedious, there is plenty to admire in one of the few places in the country that seems to take seriously the motto on the national flag: “order and progress”.
Former mayor Jaime Lerner is given credit for the planning and transport initiatives that help give Curitiba its serene atmosphere. In the 1960s Lerner had a six-block slice of the city centre turned into a pedestrian zone – an almost sacrilegious act in a country so infatuated with the car. The move has since proven wildly popular.
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