Niemeyer's Pampulha
6 stops · 4 h · MOVE bus and on foot · 6 stops
- São Francisco little church
- Oscar Niemeyer lookout
- Casa Kubitschek
- Pampulha Art Museum
- Casa do Baile
- Mineirão stadium
148 places · Exame 100 Melhores 2026, 50 Best Discovery, Comida di Buteco · no Eater coverage
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This interactive map of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) brings together 148 hand-picked places: 55 attractions, 50 restaurants, 23 cafés and 20 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
· Curated by the HOLASIM team · How we make the maps
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Igreja São Francisco de Assis · Pampulha
Niemeyer's little church: rippling vaults, Portinari tiles and a Burle Marx garden facing the lake.
Tip: Open Tuesday to Friday mornings and mid-afternoon; Portinari's St Francis panel is behind the altar.
🚇 1.8 km from MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · 22 min walk or city bus
Featured in: UNESCO 2016 · IPHAN · OSM
Show on mapMuseu de Arte da Pampulha · Pampulha
Niemeyer's 1943 casino on the lake. Closed for restoration, but the Burle Marx garden is open.
Tip: The museum has been shut for nearly seven years and works start in 2027: come for the facade, sculptures and gardens.
🚇 MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · 13 min walk
Featured in: PBH · Estado de Minas 2026
Show on mapCasa do Baile · Pampulha
Niemeyer's curving canopy on an artificial island, now an architecture and urbanism reference centre.
Tip: Open Wednesday to Sunday 10am-6pm, free entry; the canopy traces the exact curve of the shoreline.
🚇 MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · 9 min walk
Featured in: UNESCO 2016 · PBH
Show on mapCasa Kubitschek · Pampulha
The weekend house Niemeyer designed for Juscelino Kubitschek in 1943, now a modern design museum.
Tip: It sits steps from the Mirante Kubitschek: pair the two and walk the shore on to the little church.
🚇 1.8 km from MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · 22 min walk or city bus
Featured in: PBH · OSM
Show on mapIate Tênis Clube · Pampulha
The one straight-lined building in Niemeyer's ensemble: a sailboat prow leaning over Lake Pampulha.
Tip: It is a private club entered by invitation, but the silhouette reads best from the shore opposite.
🚇 MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · 18 min walk
Featured in: UNESCO 2016 · OSM
Show on mapLagoa da Pampulha · Pampulha
The lake that frames the whole modernist ensemble, ringed by a shoreline loop for running, cycling and sunsets.
Tip: Swimming and fishing are still banned by city decree: enjoy the lake from the bank, not in the water.
🚇 MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · 18 min walk
Featured in: PBH decreto 2026 · OSM
Show on mapMirante Oscar Niemeyer · Pampulha
A balcony over the west shore lining up the little church, the yacht club and the water in one frame.
Tip: Best light is between 4pm and 6pm, when the sun drops behind the little church.
🚇 1.7 km from MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · 22 min walk or city bus
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapParque Ecológico da Pampulha · Pampulha
Thirty hectares of woods, ponds and trails at the west end of the shore, built on a restored wetland.
Tip: Bring repellent: it is wetland and dusk brings mosquitoes. Bikes are rented on weekends.
🚇 3.3 km from MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: PBH · OSM
Show on mapJardim Zoológico de Belo Horizonte · Pampulha
The city zoo, with Brazilian wildlife, lakes and deep shade inside the Zoo-Botanical Foundation grounds.
Tip: The combined ticket with the botanical garden and aquarium is cheaper, and all three sit side by side.
🚇 5.0 km from MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: PBH · OSM
Show on mapJardim Botânico de Belo Horizonte · Pampulha
Cerrado and Atlantic-forest collections, an orchid house and a Japanese garden on the Zoo-Botanical grounds.
Tip: The ipê trees flower in October: pink and yellow show from the gate without walking the full circuit.
🚇 4.9 km from MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: PBH · OSM
Show on mapAquário da Bacia do Rio São Francisco · Pampulha
A freshwater aquarium devoted to the São Francisco: surubim, dourado and the river fauna that defines Minas.
Tip: Ideal for a rainy day with kids, and inside the same grounds as the zoo so you travel there only once.
🚇 4.4 km from MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: PBH · OSM
Show on mapJardim Japonês · Pampulha
A carp pond, red bridges and azaleas in the quietest corner of the Zoo-Botanical Foundation grounds.
Tip: It is the least-walked stretch of the park: arrive early and you will have it to yourself.
🚇 4.4 km from MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapParque Guanabara · Pampulha
The historic amusement park on the shore, with the coaster and Ferris wheel that shaped Minas childhoods.
Tip: It mostly opens Friday to Sunday: check the calendar before crossing the city.
🚇 1.9 km from MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · 23 min walk or city bus
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapEstádio Governador Magalhães Pinto · Pampulha
The Mineirão: spiral ramp, 1965 concrete ring and Cruzeiro's roar, with a tour of locker rooms and pitch.
Tip: The ground is still the Mineirão: the 2026 sponsorship only renamed the Laranja sectors.
🚇 MOVE BRT UFMG · 18 min walk
Featured in: Mineirão · imprensa 2026 · OSM
Show on mapMuseu Brasileiro do Futebol · Pampulha
A museum inside the Mineirão itself: shirts, commentary and the echo of the matches that made Minas history.
Tip: It is included in the stadium tour ticket and closes on match days, so check the fixture list.
🚇 MOVE BRT UFMG · 19 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapGinásio Jornalista Felippe Drummond · Pampulha
The Mineirinho: a 1980 concrete dome next to the Mineirão, home of volleyball and big concerts.
Tip: Its official name is Ginásio Jornalista Felippe Drummond; nobody uses it, everyone says Mineirinho.
🚇 MOVE BRT Mineirão · 18 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapArena MRV · Califórnia
Atlético Mineiro's own ground, opened in April 2023, with almost 45,000 seats and a daily tour.
Tip: The MRV naming deal still stands in 2026: the original contract runs ten years from construction.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Vila Oeste · 19 min walk
Featured in: Arena MRV · OSM
Show on mapPraça da Liberdade · Funcionários
The palatial 1897 square, with imperial palms, fountains and twelve cultural venues ringing it.
Tip: Almost every museum on the circuit shuts on Mondays: save that day for the parks and the Mercado Central.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 19 min walk
Featured in: Belotur · OSM
Show on mapMemorial Minas Gerais Vale · Funcionários
An immersive museum of Minas culture in the old Finance Secretariat building, free to enter.
Tip: The Guimarães Rosa room, with his desk rebuilt, is the piece nobody expects and everybody remembers.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 18 min walk
Featured in: Circuito Liberdade · OSM
Show on mapMM Gerdau – Museu das Minas e do Metal · Funcionários
Mining and metallurgy told through interactives, inside a mansion wrapped in Paulo Mendes da Rocha's light screen.
Tip: The facade lights up at dusk: come back to the square after 7pm and the building is a different thing.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 18 min walk
Featured in: Circuito Liberdade · OSM
Show on mapEspaço do Conhecimento UFMG · Funcionários
UFMG's science museum, with a digital planetarium and a terrace facing the Serra do Curral.
Tip: Planetarium sessions are capped and sell out: book your slot the moment you reach the square.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 19 min walk
Featured in: Circuito Liberdade · OSM
Show on mapCentro Cultural Banco do Brasil Belo Horizonte · Funcionários
The Minas CCBB fills a 1920 mansion and runs the city's most-visited exhibitions, always free.
Tip: Headline shows need a free timed ticket booked days ahead: do not just turn up.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 19 min walk
Featured in: CCBB · Circuito Liberdade
Show on mapCasa Fiat de Cultura · Funcionários
A 1913 neoclassical mansion on the square, showing Italian and Brazilian art with free entry.
Tip: Look up the original stairwell before you climb: it is the architectural set piece of the house.
🚇 1.8 km from MOVE BRT Tamoios · 22 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Circuito Liberdade · OSM
Show on mapBiblioteca Pública Estadual Luiz de Bessa · Funcionários
The Minas state library, a 1954 modernist building with a reading room of soaring ceilings.
Tip: You walk straight in, and the main hall is one of BH's most photogenic and least photographed interiors.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 20 min walk
Featured in: Circuito Liberdade · OSM
Show on mapArquivo Público Mineiro · Funcionários
The state historical archive in a 1908 eclectic building, showing documents and early photography.
Tip: Shows change slowly but are free and nearly empty: a perfect bolt-hole if an October downpour starts.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 14 min walk
Featured in: Circuito Liberdade · OSM
Show on mapMuseu Mineiro · Funcionários
Baroque sacred art, 19th-century painting and Aleijadinho pieces in the old Minas senate house.
Tip: It is the best preview of Ouro Preto without leaving town: the altarpieces come from 18th-century churches.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 14 min walk
Featured in: Circuito Liberdade · OSM
Show on mapCentro de Arte Popular – CEMIG · Funcionários
Minas folk art in a mansion: ex-votos, Jequitinhonha pottery and wooden saints from across the state.
Tip: If you like Jequitinhonha clay figures, these are the originals, not the market copies.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 16 min walk
Featured in: Circuito Liberdade · OSM
Show on mapPalácio da Liberdade · Funcionários
The former seat of the Minas government, from 1898, now open for guided tours of its gardens and state rooms.
Tip: Tours run on Sundays and must be booked; the outer gardens can be walked any day.
🚇 1.7 km from MOVE BRT Tamoios · 21 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Circuito Liberdade · OSM
Show on mapEdifício Niemeyer · Funcionários
Niemeyer's 1954 residential curve overlooking Praça da Liberdade, on pilotis with rippling balconies.
Tip: It is a private apartment block, not open inside: the point is seeing it from the square's lawn.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 20 min walk
Featured in: Circuito Liberdade · OSM
Show on mapPraça Sete de Setembro · Centro
The crossroads at the heart of BH, with the 1922 obelisk and half the city walking through daily.
Tip: Locals call it just Praça Sete, and the obelisk Pirulito: use those names and you sound local.
🚇 MOVE BRT Rio de Janeiro · 5 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapPraça da Estação · Centro
The great esplanade in front of the old railway station, stage for carnival, protests and concerts.
Tip: On 11 October 2026 the city's birthday party happens here, with free open-air concerts.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Central · 2 min walk
Featured in: PBH · OSM
Show on mapMuseu de Artes e Ofícios · Centro
Inside the old station: two thousand objects of Brazilian craft, from forge to printing press, staged like theatre.
Tip: Closed Mondays, free on Tuesdays; the mining room is the most striking of all.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Central · 2 min walk
Featured in: MAO · OSM
Show on mapViaduto Santa Tereza · Centro
The 1929 art deco viaduct stitching Centro to Santa Tereza and anchoring the city's street carnival.
Tip: Beneath it sit the cultural centre and the graffiti zone: go down via Rua Sapucaí, not the avenue.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Central · 7 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapRua Sapucaí · Floresta
Six hundred metres of murals above the rail tracks, with the best view of the skyline and the viaduct.
Tip: It reopened in February 2025 after nearly a year of works: now one level, with a bike lane and benches.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Central · 2 min walk
Featured in: PBH 2025 · OSM
Show on mapPalácio das Artes · Centro
The performing-arts hub of Minas, inside the city park: opera, dance, cinema and galleries.
Tip: From 2 to 11 October 2026 Grupo Corpo performs Piracema and Lecuona in the Grande Teatro.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 10 min walk
Featured in: Palácio das Artes · OSM
Show on mapCine Theatro Brasil Vallourec · Centro
A 1932 art deco cinema restored as a theatre and cultural centre, its original marquee over Av. Amazonas.
Tip: The lobby and staircase can be seen for free during box-office hours: ask and step in for a minute.
🚇 MOVE BRT Espírito Santo · 4 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapParque Municipal Américo Renné Giannetti · Centro
Downtown's lung since 1897: lakes, bridges, century-old trees and the Palácio das Artes inside.
Tip: Closed Mondays for maintenance; Sunday morning is when the park is most alive.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 9 min walk
Featured in: PBH · OSM
Show on mapMuseu Histórico Abílio Barreto · Cidade Jardim
The only farmhouse that survived the levelling of Curral del Rey to build BH, now the city museum.
Tip: The modern wing and the old farmhouse are two buildings on one site: enter from Prudente de Morais.
🚇 2.1 km from MOVE BRT Tamoios · 26 min walk or city bus
Featured in: PBH · OSM
Show on mapMuseu Inimá de Paula · Centro
The work of Minas painter Inimá de Paula in a modernist building on Rua da Bahia, with a panoramic terrace.
Tip: Go up to the top floor: the terrace opens over downtown and hardly anyone asks for it.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 11 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapMuseu da Imagem e do Som · Centro
BH's audiovisual collection in an Álvares Cabral mansion: film, photography and the city's sound memory.
Tip: It runs free weekday film seasons: check the listing first, the room is tiny.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 11 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapCentro Cultural UFMG · Centro
Open, free university programming next to Praça da Estação: theatre, music and exhibitions.
Tip: This is where the city tries out new work: check the listings, almost everything is free.
🚇 MOVE BRT Espírito Santo · 2 min walk
Featured in: UFMG · OSM
Show on mapCentro de Arte Contemporânea e Fotografia · Centro
The municipal gallery of contemporary art and photography on Av. Afonso Pena, free to enter.
Tip: It is a block from the Feira Hippie: pair it with fair Sunday and step into the air conditioning.
🚇 MOVE BRT Espírito Santo · 5 min walk
Featured in: PBH · OSM
Show on mapEdifício Arcângelo Maletta · Centro
BH's bohemian building since 1960: inner arcades, bookshops, bars and Cantina do Lucas on the first floor.
Tip: By day it is an ordinary shopping arcade; after 7pm it becomes the most literary bar in town.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 10 min walk
Featured in: Belotur · OSM
Show on mapIgreja de Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem · Boa Viagem
BH's neo-Gothic cathedral, from 1932, with tall stained glass and a leafy square that airs out downtown.
Tip: The square out front is the classic Savassi meeting point before dinner.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 13 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapPraça Raul Soares · Centro
A monumental 1936 roundabout with a lit fountain, the western full stop of the Av. Afonso Pena axis.
Tip: At night the fountain lights up and the Mercado Novo, a block away, is only starting to fill.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 7 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapSerraria Souza Pinto · Centro
A 1912 railway shed turned into downtown's main hall for trade fairs, food festivals and concerts.
Tip: In October 2026 it hosts the Festival Mineiro da Cerveja on the 24th: tickets online, not at the door.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Central · 5 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapPraça do Papa · Mangabeiras
BH's sunset lookout: the whole city below, the Serra do Curral alongside and the John Paul II monument.
Tip: Arrive an hour before sunset to get a spot on the wall; Saturdays bring food stalls and music.
🚇 4.1 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapParque das Mangabeiras · Mangabeiras
BH's largest urban park, climbing the Serra do Curral: lookouts, springs, forest and 2.3 million square metres.
Tip: Closed Mondays. The climb is steep: take the park shuttle up to the lookout and walk back down.
🚇 3.4 km from Metro Line 1 Santa Tereza · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: PBH · OSM
Show on mapMirante do Mangabeiras · Mangabeiras
A balcony over Av. Bandeirantes holding BH's cleanest panorama, from the Pampulha lake to Barreiro.
Tip: It is 600 m from Praça do Papa: do both lookouts on the same sunset walk.
🚇 3.6 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapSerra do Curral · Mangabeiras
The quartzite ridge on the city's coat of arms, closing Belo Horizonte's southern horizon.
Tip: In 2026 the courts still hold the ridge's mining licences suspended: the view remains whole.
🚇 4.6 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: STF/TRF-6 2026 · OSM
Show on mapRua do Amendoim · Mangabeiras
The optical-illusion street: in neutral the car seems to roll uphill on the Mangabeiras slope.
Tip: Its official name is Rua Professor Otávio Magalhães and it is on the way to Praça do Papa: chain them.
🚇 3.7 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapClube da Esquina · Santa Tereza
The Santa Tereza corner that named the Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges album and a whole musical generation.
Tip: It is an ordinary residential corner, with no museum: the ritual is the bar opposite and the record.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Tereza · 3 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapEstádio Raimundo Sampaio · Horto
Arena Independência, from 1950: América Mineiro's neighbourhood ground, stands right on the pitch.
Tip: It is the best sightline in town for a match: cheap tickets and 400 m from Horto metro.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Horto · 7 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapMuseu de História Natural e Jardim Botânico da UFMG · Santa Inês
Fossils, monumental nativity scenes and 600,000 square metres of university botanical garden in the east.
Tip: The Pipiripau nativity, a wooden automaton built over 45 years, runs on a fixed schedule: ask at the gate.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Inês · 5 min walk
Featured in: UFMG · OSM
Show on mapParque Municipal Juscelino Kubitschek · Comiteco
A wooded park on the southern slope with the JK statue, shaded paths and Serra do Curral views.
Tip: Far quieter than Mangabeiras with the same ridge in front: ideal for a calm morning.
🚇 4.0 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapGlouton · Lourdes
French technique over Minas produce in Leo Paixão's tasting menu, 24th in Brazil's 100 Best 2026.
Tip: The ox tongue with corn cream is the signature dish: take the Brazilian wine pairing.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 18 min walk
Featured in: Exame 100 Melhores 2026 · 50 Best Discovery
Show on mapNinita · Lourdes
Andreza Luisa's Mediterranean cooking in a small Lourdes house: embers, vegetables and a short list.
Tip: It shares a wall with Glouton: if one has no table, the other saves the night without moving.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 18 min walk
Featured in: Exame 100 Melhores · OSM
Show on mapBirosca S2 · Santa Tereza
Bruna Martins's house in Santa Tereza: river-and-hill Minas cooking by an all-women kitchen.
Tip: The surubim crudo and the Eskibon Mineiro dessert are mandatory; book, there are few tables.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Tereza · 6 min walk
Featured in: Exame 100 Melhores 2026 · 50 Best Discovery
Show on mapCozinha Tupis · Centro
A counter on the Mercado Novo's second floor where Henrique Gilberto reworks jiló and ox tongue.
Tip: Sit at the counter if you are alone: it is the best seat in the Mercado Novo and cannot be booked.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 4 min walk
Featured in: Exame 100 Melhores 2026 · 50 Best Discovery
Show on mapParallel · Lourdes
Contemporary Spanish cooking in Lourdes, 32nd in Exame's 100 best restaurants in Brazil 2026.
Tip: The tapas bar is cheaper than the dining room with the same kitchen: order there if you are two.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 17 min walk
Featured in: Exame 100 Melhores 2026
Show on mapPacato · Lourdes
Caio Soter tours Minas hunting producers and puts it on the plate: terroir cooking, no folklore.
Tip: It has been on the 50 Best Discovery map since 2024; the menu moves with what the small farms send.
🚇 2.2 km from MOVE BRT Tamoios · 27 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Exame 100 Melhores 2026 · 50 Best Discovery
Show on mapPer Lui · Serra
A tasting menu that turns over every three months in a discreet Serra house, 47th in Brazil in 2026.
Tip: It only works with advance booking and a set menu: flag dietary restrictions when you book.
🚇 2.6 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 33 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Exame 100 Melhores 2026
Show on mapXapuri · Trevo
Wood stove, long tables and farmhouse Minas cooking under the trees, north of Pampulha since 1983.
Tip: It is served in large sharing portions: frango com quiabo and tutu are the classic pairing.
🚇 4.3 km from MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: Exame 100 Melhores · OSM
Show on mapDona Lucinha · São Pedro
The classic Minas buffet: thirty pots on a wood stove with tutu, frango ao molho pardo and doce de leite.
Tip: You pay per head and can go back as often as you like: do not load the first plate, graze.
🚇 2.3 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 28 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Belotur · OSM
Show on mapCasa Calixto · São Pedro
Minas cooking with contemporary technique in a São Pedro house, with its own garden and a cachaça list.
Tip: Ask for a pot-still cachaça by the glass before eating: they stock labels that never leave Minas.
🚇 2.4 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 30 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Guia local · OSM
Show on mapMaturi · Santa Tereza
Regilene Coelho's Maranhão cooking in Santa Tereza: piracuí fritters, Maria Isabel rice and fried lambari.
Tip: The fried lambari comes in a paper boat: the sharing starter while the rice is cooking.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Efigênia · 6 min walk
Featured in: CNN Brasil · OSM
Show on mapMercearia do Nivaldo · Santa Tereza
A family grocery-bar in Santa Tereza, famous for the meatball in tomato sauce and the pork crackling.
Tip: It opens at midday and the meatballs run out early: after 2pm there probably are none left.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Tereza · 6 min walk
Featured in: CNN Brasil · OSM
Show on mapMercearia Lacerda · Santa Tereza
A corner boteco on Rua Mármore in Santa Tereza, with pavement tables, ice-cold beer and house petiscos.
Tip: Santa Tereza is walked bar to bar: this is a good first stop before climbing to Clube da Esquina.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Efigênia · 6 min walk
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapBar do Museu Clube da Esquina · Santa Tereza
The bar-museum on the album's own corner: photos, vinyl records and Clube da Esquina music playing all night.
Tip: There is live music several nights a week and usually no cover: come early for a pavement table.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Tereza · 3 min walk
Featured in: Belotur · OSM
Show on mapBar do Orlando · Santa Tereza
A historic Santa Tereza boteco, one of the city-certified Bares com Alma: tokens, chope and talk.
Tip: You order at the till and collect at the counter with a token: the classic Minas boteco system.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Tereza · 5 min walk
Featured in: Bares com Alma / Belotur
Show on mapBolão Santa Tereza · Santa Tereza
A corner on Praça Duque de Caxias that becomes the whole neighbourhood's meeting point at dusk.
Tip: The square fills with tables on Fridays: the natural start of the Santa Tereza boteco crawl.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Tereza · 6 min walk
Featured in: Bares com Alma / Belotur
Show on mapBartiquim · Santa Tereza
A veteran Santa Tereza boteco, three-time Comida di Buteco podium, serving regional sharing plates.
Tip: Comida di Buteco runs April to May: the 2026 edition ended on 10 May, but finalist dishes often stay on the menu.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Horto · 8 min walk
Featured in: Comida di Buteco · OSM
Show on mapCantina do Lucas · Centro
The Maletta building's literary bar since 1961: pasta, chope and the tables half of Minas literature used.
Tip: Enter from Rua da Bahia and go up to the arcade's first floor: from outside it looks like nothing.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 10 min walk
Featured in: Bares com Alma / Belotur · OSM
Show on mapNonô – O Rei do Caldo de Mocotó · Centro
Mocotó broth, regional petiscos and chope from dawn in the heart of downtown, open since 1958.
Tip: It opens very early: the classic stop for anyone leaving a Savassi night or starting a downtown shift.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 3 min walk
Featured in: Bares com Alma / Belotur
Show on mapBar e Restaurante Tonel de Pinga · Boa Viagem
Pot-still cachaças from all over Minas and boteco food in an old house steps from Boa Viagem.
Tip: Order a cachaça flight to taste three regions before choosing the bottle you take home.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 13 min walk
Featured in: Bares com Alma / Belotur
Show on mapTaberna do Baltazar · Serra
A neighbourhood tavern in Serra with a long beer list and kitchen petiscos, always full on Thursdays.
Tip: The Serra district packs half a dozen good botecos into six blocks: this is the best starting point.
🚇 2.4 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 30 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Bares com Alma / Belotur · OSM
Show on mapBar do Toninho · Serra
A city-certified corner boteco in the Serra district, tables out in the street and customers of a lifetime.
Tip: It is two blocks from Taberna do Baltazar: do both in one night and add Bar do Valle.
🚇 2.3 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 29 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Bares com Alma / Belotur
Show on mapBar do Valle · Carmo
A Carmo boteco with well-poured chope and generous plates, one of the city's Bares com Alma.
Tip: Portions feed three: order one and two beers before adding anything else.
🚇 2.5 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 31 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Bares com Alma / Belotur
Show on mapAlbanos · Sion
A BH chope institution since 1991: kegs turning all day and the benchmark liver with jiló.
Tip: Order chope in the small glass: the Minas trick is drinking it fast and freezing, never by the jug.
🚇 2.6 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 32 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Belotur · OSM
Show on mapBolão São Pedro · São Pedro
A big São Pedro boteco, the kind that fills up at six in the evening and does not empty until midnight.
Tip: It is the after-work bar of the Sion-São Pedro axis: after 7pm you queue on the pavement.
🚇 3.0 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 37 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapPatorroco · Prado
A Prado boteco, Comida di Buteco champion back in 2012, with home-style petiscos and lifelong regulars.
Tip: Prado is a residential district with no tourists: you eat the same as in Savassi for half the price.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Calafate · 8 min walk
Featured in: Comida di Buteco · OSM
Show on mapAgosto Butequim · Prado
A historic Prado boteco, podium finisher in the early Comida di Buteco editions, with pot cooking.
Tip: Old contest editions left permanent dishes on the menu: ask which one was theirs.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Calafate · 12 min walk
Featured in: Comida di Buteco · OSM
Show on mapMercearia Lili · Santo Antônio
The grocery-bar that won the first two Comida di Buteco editions, in 2001 and 2002, and is still here.
Tip: It is living history of the contest born in BH in 2000 that now runs in over fifty cities.
🚇 3.1 km from MOVE BRT Tamoios · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: Comida di Buteco · OSM
Show on mapCozinha Santo Antônio · Santo Antônio
Researcher Ju Duarte's shared table, with dishes that rebuild the history of Minas cooking.
Tip: It runs on set dates with limited seats, like a chef's dinner: book well in advance.
🚇 2.8 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 35 min walk or city bus
Featured in: CNN Brasil · OSM
Show on mapPitza 1780 · Savassi
Long-ferment pizza topped with ingredients from small Minas producers, in the heart of Savassi.
Tip: The banana, cheese and tomato-jam pizza sounds odd and is the one to order.
🚇 2.0 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 26 min walk or city bus
Featured in: CNN Brasil · OSM
Show on mapQuintal do Degas · Lagoinha
A bar in Léo Degas's own backyard, famous for its rolled pork crackling and block-party feel.
Tip: It opens few days a week and fills up: check social media before heading up to Lagoinha.
🚇 MOVE BRT SENAI · 6 min walk
Featured in: CNN Brasil · OSM
Show on mapCasa Cheia · Centro
Inside the Mercado Central: pot-cooked Minas food since 1982, Comida di Buteco champion in 2005.
Tip: Order the tropeiro and the Mineirinho Valente; lunch is communal and the Saturday wait is long.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 5 min walk
Featured in: Comida di Buteco · OSM
Show on mapBar da Lora · Centro
The liver with jiló the city treats as heritage, served over a counter in the Mercado Central.
Tip: Eat standing at the counter with a beer before 3pm: after that the market starts shutting.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 5 min walk
Featured in: Bares com Alma / Belotur
Show on mapGero Belo Horizonte · Lourdes
The Fasano group's trattoria in Lourdes: fresh pasta, a long wine list and classic dining-room service.
Tip: The weekday set lunch is the cheap way into the same kitchen as the evening menu.
🚇 1.7 km from MOVE BRT Tamoios · 21 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Fasano · guia local
Show on mapHofbräuhaus · Lourdes
A Bavarian beer hall in Lourdes with sausages, pork knuckle and litre steins, a rarity in a chope city.
Tip: Portions serve two at least: the pork knuckle with sauerkraut feeds three.
🚇 1.9 km from MOVE BRT Tamoios · 24 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapEst! Est!! Est!!! · Funcionários
A veteran Funcionários Italian, the kind that never changes the menu because the menu works.
Tip: Book for Friday or Saturday: the room is small and the regulars are lifers.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 15 min walk
Featured in: Guia local · OSM
Show on mapDomenico Pizzeria e Trattoria · Savassi
Neapolitan pizza and fresh pasta in the heart of Savassi, with a wood oven on show and pavement tables.
Tip: The outdoor tables are the ones people fight over: ask for the pavement as you walk in.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 17 min walk
Featured in: Guia local · OSM
Show on mapRedentor · Savassi
A Savassi bar with Rio-inspired petiscos, a cocktail list and tables spilling onto the pavement.
Tip: It is the classic launch pad for a Savassi night before heading down Antônio de Albuquerque.
🚇 2.2 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 27 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Guia local · OSM
Show on mapProvincia Di Salerno · Santa Efigênia
A family trattoria in Santa Efigênia with southern Italian recipes and plates that overflow.
Tip: It is 400 m from Santa Efigênia station: the easiest Italian to reach by metro.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Efigênia · 3 min walk
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Show on mapMaria das Tranças · Funcionários
Pot-cooked Minas food in Funcionários, with feijão tropeiro, frango com quiabo and house doce de leite.
Tip: If you have never had feijão tropeiro, start here: farofa, crackling, egg and collards on one plate.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 18 min walk
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Show on mapEmporium Mineiro · Mangabeiras
Wood-stove Minas cooking on upper Afonso Pena, right on the climb towards the Mangabeiras park.
Tip: Perfect as lunch before climbing to Mangabeiras or after coming down from Praça do Papa.
🚇 2.6 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 33 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapPinguim · Carmo
A classic chope house with pavement tables in the Carmo district, opening early and closing very late.
Tip: The Grão Mogol-Pium-i axis has bars open daily: a good plan B when Savassi is packed.
🚇 2.1 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 27 min walk or city bus
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapCompanhia do Boi · Sion
A Sion grill with cuts over embers, long tables and the same cold chope as neighbouring Albanos.
Tip: It is next door to Albanos: beer in one, meat in the other, without crossing the street.
🚇 2.6 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 32 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapStadt Jever · Savassi
A German beer house on Av. do Contorno, with imported draught and a sausage-driven kitchen.
Tip: A good shelter if rain hits Savassi: one of the few big covered rooms around.
🚇 2.0 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 25 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapVila Árabe · Savassi
Lebanese cooking on Rua Pernambuco, in the heart of Savassi: mezze, raw kibbeh and flatbread baked to order.
Tip: Order the full mezze for two: it is cheaper than picking dish by dish and goes further.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 19 min walk
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Show on mapMercado de Origem Santa Tereza · Santa Tereza
A weekend market in Santa Tereza: typical food stalls, craft beer, artisan cheese and live music.
Tip: Open Saturdays 9am-9pm and Sundays 9am-6pm: the hall is shut on weekdays.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Tereza · 7 min walk
Featured in: Estado de Minas · OSM
Show on mapRestaurante Quintal Pampulha · Bandeirantes
Regional cooking in a leafy backyard near the Pampulha ecological park, with tables set under the trees.
Tip: It is the natural lunch stop if you ride the whole loop around the lake.
🚇 3.8 km from MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · bus, taxi or ride app only
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Show on mapChopp da Fábrica Pampulha · São Luiz
A big beer garden on the Pampulha shore, with sharing plates and a terrace over the water.
Tip: Ask for a terrace table: the view over the water is the reason to come this far.
🚇 1.8 km from MOVE BRT Mineirão · 23 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapBar do Zezé · Barreiro
A Comida di Buteco legend out in Barreiro: four national titles and an uncompromising boteco kitchen.
Tip: It is far from downtown and metro Line 2 does not reach Barreiro yet: come by car or app.
🚇 3.9 km from Metro Line 1 Cidade Industrial · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: Comida di Buteco · OSM
Show on mapBar da Cida · Floramar
The 2008 Comida di Buteco champion in the north of the city, home cooking and local regulars.
Tip: It is 900 m from Floramar station on Line 1: the easiest champion to reach by metro.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Waldomiro Lobo · 13 min walk
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Show on mapElisa Café e Torrefação · Savassi
In-house roastery and brew bar in Savassi: 17th in South America in the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops 2026.
Tip: Ask for the month's microlot as filter before the espresso: they roast in house and rotate often.
🚇 2.0 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 25 min walk or city bus
Featured in: World's 100 Best Coffee Shops 2026 · OSM
Show on mapCafé com Letras · Savassi
A Savassi bookshop-café since 1996, with live jazz, book launches and tables you can sit at for hours.
Tip: Jazz nights are usually Thursday and Friday: check the listing and arrive before 8pm.
🚇 2.1 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 26 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Belotur · OSM
Show on mapA Pão de Queijaria · Savassi
Pão de queijo raised to a signature product, with fillings, different doughs and specialty coffee alongside.
Tip: If you try only one, make it the aged canastra cheese: it explains why Minas is Minas.
🚇 2.1 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 26 min walk or city bus
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapAcademia do Café · Funcionários
An SCA-certified coffee school and laboratory: cuppings, courses and a brew bar open to the public.
Tip: Ask whether a public cupping is running that day: the cheapest way to understand Minas coffee.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 13 min walk
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Show on mapManní Cafés Especiais · Lourdes
Specialty coffee and a seasonal menu in the Belas Artes cinema building, two blocks from Praça da Liberdade.
Tip: The best breakfast before the Circuito Liberdade opens: museums start at 10, this place at 8.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 17 min walk
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Show on mapCasa Bonomi · Savassi
A bakery-café in an Afonso Pena mansion, with its own oven and breakfasts that last all morning.
Tip: The Saturday morning queue is real: arrive before 9 or take the back terrace.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 17 min walk
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Show on mapTabuleiro Café · Funcionários
The Espaço do Conhecimento café on Praça da Liberdade, with Minas quitandas and a view of the palms.
Tip: The obvious stop between two Circuito Liberdade museums without crossing a single street.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 19 min walk
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Show on mapoop café · Savassi
A brew bar with constantly rotating beans and tasting workshops, on a quiet corner of the Savassi.
Tip: They also have a Praça Sete branch: if you are downtown, no need to climb to Savassi.
🚇 2.1 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 27 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapUluru Café · Funcionários
Brunch, lunch and happy hour on Afonso Pena, with a broad menu and a terrace over the avenue.
Tip: On Feira Hippie Sunday it sits six blocks away: the place to rest after walking the fair.
🚇 1.6 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 20 min walk or city bus
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapCopa Floresta · Floresta
Minas quitandas, warm bread and filter coffee in the Floresta district, with a home-kitchen feel.
Tip: Order the cornmeal cake with filter coffee: the Minas breakfast in its most honest form.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Central · 3 min walk
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Show on mapTeresa Café · Santa Tereza
A neighbourhood café on Rua Mármore with local producers, house baking and daily Minas plates.
Tip: The best launch point for walking Santa Tereza by day, before the botecos open.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Efigênia · 7 min walk
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Show on mapRODA Café e Ciclocultura · Santa Efigênia
A café and bicycle workshop in Santa Efigênia, the meeting point for BH's whole cycling culture.
Tip: If you want to ride the Pampulha shore, here they map the route and fix your bike.
🚇 MOVE BRT Silviano Brandão · 10 min walk
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Show on mapCafé Magrí · Mangabeiras
Specialty coffee and seasonal cooking in Mangabeiras, with the whole Serra do Curral behind.
Tip: The perfect stop between Mangabeiras park and Praça do Papa, with the best view of the three.
🚇 4.1 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: Guia local · OSM
Show on mapCafé Dois Irmãos · Centro
A traditional café inside the Mercado Central that also sells roasted and ground beans to take away.
Tip: Buy ground coffee here: cheaper than any specialty shop and it comes from Minas.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 5 min walk
Featured in: Guia local · OSM
Show on mapCafé Nice · Centro
A downtown counter café of the old school, with pão de queijo coming out of the oven all day.
Tip: You drink standing at the counter, downtown style: coffee, pão de queijo and on you go.
🚇 MOVE BRT Espírito Santo · 5 min walk
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Show on mapEggs Café da Manhã & Brunch · Savassi
A Savassi breakfast house, serving eggs, fresh baking and specialty coffee until mid-afternoon.
Tip: Weekends mean a wait: put your name down and walk a loop of Praça da Savassi meanwhile.
🚇 1.9 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 24 min walk or city bus
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapLullo Gelato · Savassi
Artisan gelato in Savassi, with Minas flavours like doce de leite, cheese and guava, or coffee.
Tip: The cheese-and-guava flavour is the Minas Romeu e Julieta frozen: order it even if you doubt.
🚇 2.0 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 25 min walk or city bus
Featured in: OSM
Show on mapSorveteria São Domingos · Funcionários
An ice-cream parlour on Getúlio Vargas with Brazilian fruit flavours and three generations of regulars.
Tip: Try the cerrado fruit flavours, like cagaita or pequi, which you will not find outside Minas.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 19 min walk
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Show on mapSlow Coffee · Ouro Preto
A roastery and café south of the Pampulha lake, with beans from small growers in southern Minas.
Tip: It is the closest coffee stop to the Mineirão: fill your flask before heading up to the lake.
🚇 3.3 km from MOVE BRT UFMG · bus, taxi or ride app only
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Show on mapSanto Inácio Café · Planalto
Family-grown artisan coffee and home-style Minas cooking in the far north of the city, beyond Pampulha.
Tip: It is 900 m from Floramar station: the northernmost specialty coffee you can reach by metro.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Floramar · 17 min walk
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Show on mapPanificadora Portugal · Santa Amélia
A big bakery north of the Pampulha lake, with cheap fresh coffee and an endless savoury counter.
Tip: It is the breakfast stop on the lake's north side, before starting the shoreline loop.
🚇 MOVE BRT Santa Rosa · 13 min walk
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Show on mapAmélia Cafeteria · Buritis
A Buritis neighbourhood café, known for its home-baked cakes and its living-room atmosphere.
Tip: Buritis is 7 km from downtown with no metro: come by bus or app to see residential BH.
🚇 5.2 km from Metro Line 1 Vila Oeste · bus, taxi or ride app only
Featured in: Guia local · OSM
Show on mapINCC Café · Santa Efigênia
Specialty coffee on Av. Brasil, on the Santa Efigênia edge, with a roast of the day and a short bar.
Tip: It is 700 m from Santa Efigênia station: good coffee before taking the metro to Santa Tereza.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Efigênia · 6 min walk
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Show on mapMercado Central · Centro
Over 400 stalls across 24,000 sqm since 1929: canastra cheese, cachaça, doce de leite and BH's oldest bars.
Tip: To fly with artisan cheese ask for vacuum sealing and a receipt: Minas artisan cheese became UNESCO intangible heritage in 2024.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 5 min walk
Featured in: Mercado Central · UNESCO 2024
Show on mapMercado Novo · Centro
Over 900 businesses in 36,000 sqm: workshops and print shops below, bars, restaurants and design above.
Tip: The second and third floors fill Thursday to Saturday nights; the building closes at midnight.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 5 min walk
Featured in: Estado de Minas 2025 · OSM
Show on mapFeira Hippie · Centro
Some 1,600 stallholders take over Av. Afonso Pena every Sunday since 1969: crafts, fashion, food and art.
Tip: It runs on Afonso Pena between Rua da Bahia and Rua dos Guajajaras and draws about 60,000 people a Sunday.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 8 min walk
Featured in: PBH · OSM
Show on mapMercado Distrital do Cruzeiro · Cruzeiro
A neighbourhood market with about 40 traders: fruit, meat, cheese, bread and a run of bars and eateries.
Tip: Open Monday to Saturday 7am-6pm and Sundays only until 1pm; weekends usually bring live music.
🚇 2.3 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 29 min walk or city bus
Featured in: Estado de Minas 2025 · OSM
Show on mapFeira dos Produtores · Cidade Nova
A producers' market on Cristiano Machado: the best cheeses, Minas sweets and greens in town.
Tip: This is where the chefs shop: ask for half-cured canastra cheese and taste first, everyone lets you.
🚇 MOVE BRT Ipiranga · 9 min walk
Featured in: Estado de Minas 2025 · OSM
Show on mapCentro de Artesanato Mineiro · Centro
The official Minas craft shop beside the Palácio das Artes: pottery, textiles and work from across the state.
Tip: Prices are fixed and go to the maker: no haggling here, unlike the Feira Hippie.
🚇 MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 10 min walk
Featured in: Palácio das Artes · OSM
Show on mapPátio Savassi · São Pedro
The south-side mall, with Brazilian brands, a cinema, a food terrace and the Manoel Bernardes jeweller.
Tip: The easiest place to see Minas gemstones with a certificate and invoice, required to take them abroad.
🚇 2.2 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 27 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapManoel Bernardes Pátio Savassi · São Pedro
The classic Minas jeweller, specialising in state stones: imperial topaz, tourmaline and aquamarine.
Tip: Always demand a gemmological certificate and an invoice describing the stone: without them there is no guarantee and no customs.
🚇 2.2 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 27 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapDiamondMall · Santo Agostinho
A compact Santo Agostinho mall, four blocks from the Mercado Novo, with brands and a food court.
Tip: The closest air-conditioned shelter to downtown if an October storm breaks.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 14 min walk
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Show on mapShopping Cidade · Centro
The downtown mall, right beside Praça Sete: clothes, electronics and escalators busy all day long.
Tip: The most central and cheapest of BH's malls: a good place to buy a charger or an umbrella.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 5 min walk
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Show on mapBoulevard Shopping · Santa Efigênia
A Santa Efigênia mall on Av. dos Andradas, with a food terrace and a view of the Santa Tereza viaduct.
Tip: The top-floor terrace is a free lookout over the railway valley: go up even if you buy nothing.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Santa Efigênia · 3 min walk
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Show on mapBH Shopping · Belvedere
BH's luxury mall, in Belvedere, with the international brands and the Manoel Bernardes jeweller.
Tip: It is 8 km from downtown with no metro: come by bus or app, and see Belvedere while you are there.
🚇 6.1 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · bus, taxi or ride app only
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Show on mapMinas Shopping · União
A mall in the city's northeast, with its own metro station on Line 1 and a huge food court.
Tip: The only BH mall with a metro station at its door: you step off and you are inside.
🚇 Metro Line 1 Minas Shopping · 3 min walk
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Show on mapQuixote Livraria e Café · Savassi
An independent Savassi bookshop with a café at the back, a curated selection and tables for slow reading.
Tip: They keep a Minas literature table: Guimarães Rosa, Drummond and Adélia Prado in local editions.
🚇 2.1 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 26 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapEsquerda Literária · Savassi
An independent political bookshop on Rua Antônio de Albuquerque, with frequent talks and launches.
Tip: It is in the same building as Pitza 1780: book, pizza and on to the Savassi bars.
🚇 2.1 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 26 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapAcervo Discos · Savassi
A vinyl shop on Rua Pernambuco, strong on MPB, Clube da Esquina and Brazilian music in general.
Tip: The 1972 Clube da Esquina album is here: buying it in BH is the city's most meaningful souvenir.
🚇 1.7 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 22 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapDiscoplay · Centro
A historic downtown record shop on Rua dos Tupis, with vinyl, CDs and staff who actually know.
Tip: Ask for recordings by Minas artists you cannot find outside the state: they have uncatalogued boxes.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 7 min walk
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Show on mapLivraria Van Damme · Centro
A second-hand bookshop on Rua dos Guajajaras, one of downtown Belo Horizonte's classic sebos.
Tip: Downtown has half a dozen sebos in four blocks: the city's best rainy-day walk.
🚇 MOVE BRT Tamoios · 10 min walk
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Show on mapEmpório Estrada Real · Caiçara
An emporium of Minas products: aged cheeses, pot-still cachaças, copper-pan sweets and regional coffee.
Tip: If you want to fly with cachaça, ask them to wrap it and check it in: it will not pass hand luggage.
🚇 1.9 km from Metro Line 1 Calafate · 23 min walk or city bus
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Show on mapLoja do Galo · Savassi
Atlético Mineiro's official shop in Savassi: shirts, flags and the crest that splits the city.
Tip: BH splits between Atlético's Galo and Cruzeiro's Raposa: pick a side before entering a boteco.
🚇 2.0 km from MOVE BRT Bernardo Monteiro · 25 min walk or city bus
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