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Belo Horizonte
 Minas Gerais Parque Municipal Américo René Giannetti
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Monumento aos Fundadores e Construtores de Belo HorizonteMonument to the Founders and Builders of Belo HorizonteAugusto de Lima, Afonso Pena, Chrispim Jacques Bias Fortes, and Aarão Reis | 
 Hildegardo Leão Veloso
 1963  | 
	 
Concrete monument with four large bronze heads of the four men involved in the foundation of Belo Horizonte: governor Augusto de Lima, who proposed the change of the capital from Ouro Preto to Belo Horizonte; Afonso Pena, who officialized the construction of the new capital; Chrispim Jacques Bias Fortes, governor who inaugurated it; and Aarão Reis, the engineer of the city.
![]() Augusto de lima Congonhas de Sabará [now Nova Lima] 1859 - Rio de Janeiro 1934 Brazilian journalist, poet, musician, magistrate, jurist, professor and politician; governor of Minas Gerais, March-June 1891 (Wikipedia).  | 
![]() Afonso Pena (sign no longer present) Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena  | 
![]() Bias Fortes Chrispim Jacques Bias Fortes
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![]() Aarão Reis (sign no longer present) Aarão Leal de Carvalho Reis1853 - 1926 Brazilian engineer and town planner (Wikipedia).  | 
idealizado e mandado fazer pelo prefeito  | 
 Idealized and ordered by the mayor  | 
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