Parque do Ibirapuera

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Aerial view of the park.
The park on the map.
Parque do Ibirapuera
Gandhi sculpture by Gautam Pal in the park

The Parque do Ibirapuera , and Parque Ibirapuera , is a large city park in São Paulo and a cultural center of the city. The importance of the park for São Paulo is comparable to that of Central Park for New York City . With an area of ​​almost two square kilometers, it is the second largest park in São Paulo. Around 1 million m² of this is green space and 150,000 m² is water. The park has around 300,000 visitors per week, 200,000 of them on weekends and 120,000 on Sundays.

history

The park was to be inaugurated on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of São Paulo on January 25, 1954. It was finally open to the public on August 21, 1954. The buildings were designed by architects Oscar Niemeyer , Joaquim Cardozo , Carlos Lemos and others. Some of them are under monument protection. The landscape was designed by Roberto Burle Marx and Otavio Texeira Mendes . Ibirapuera means something like "lazy tree" in the Tupi language and refers to the swampy landscape that used to be at this location.

Buildings

The park is home to several buildings, including the Museum of Modern Art in the São Paulo Biennale, the Monumento aos Bandeirantes , a planetarium and several wave-shaped multi-purpose halls open on all sides. Free open-air concerts, especially by well-known Brazilian artists , are often held here on weekends The Japanese pavilion was built by the Japanese delegation on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony and is a replica of the Katsura Palace in Kyoto.

landscape

Ficus trees ( Ficus benjamina )

The park is also characterized by its diversity and vegetation . In particular, the large fig trees near entrance no. 7, the trunks of which have grown together form a kind of gate with a diameter of several meters, and the Jacaranda avenue , which blooms in September on the shores of the artificial lake, are worth seeing.

The enormous fountain , which combines water jets from several nozzles in countless different variants every second, has become a tourist attraction after its renovation .

Photography for private use is permitted, but permission is required for commercial or advertising purposes.

Web links

Commons : Parque do Ibirapuera  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ibirapuera Park. In: www.cidadedesaopaulo.com. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012 ; accessed on September 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Notícia: Mais três monumentos projetados por Niemeyer são tombados pelo Iphan. In: portal.iphan.gov.br. Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN), accessed September 4, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro: Dicionário de tupi antigo. A língua indígena clássica do Brasil. Global Editora, São Paulo 2013, ISBN 978-85-260-1933-1 , p. 566.
  4. ↑ Fotografar no Parque Ibirapuera. In: parqueibirapuera.org. Parque Ibirapuera Conservação, accessed September 4, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).

Coordinates: 23 ° 35 ′ 18 ″  S , 46 ° 39 ′ 32 ″  W.