Sustainable
diary has found another amazing green tunnel, so let's go in Brasil.
RuaGoncalo de Carvalho is a street located in bairro Independência in
the city of Porto Alegre, the capital of the state of Rio
Grande do Sul. Flanked by trees on either side, the street became
internationally known after a campaign for its preservation spread on
the Internet leading it to be dubbed "the most beautiful street
in the world", and today it is considered "environmental
heritage" by the city.
It is a forest. Over
a span of 500 meters the sidewalks are lined with more than one
hundred trees of the genus Tipuana, going up to the seventh floor of
the buildings in some cases. These trees were planted in the 1930s
by employees of German origin who worked in a local brewery.
In
2005, the construction of a mall nearby brought the risk of changes
to this beautiful street, prompting residents to mobilize. The
campaign was successful, and on June 5, 2006 the then mayor José
Fogaça signed a decree making the street Gonçalo de Carvalho
"historical, cultural and environmental development of the
city."
The
writer Pedro Nuno Teixeira Santos wrote: "Goncalo de Carvalho in
Porto Alegre, Brazil, is not only the most beautiful street in the
world because of the stunning visual effect of its immense Tipuana
green tunnel. It is the most beautiful street in the world for this,
but mainly because these trees were planted cherished by its
residents, over several decades, that is, the green tunnel is the
result of love, the love of the trees! It was from this love and this
struggle of the residents of Goncalo de Carvalho, that the political
power of the city found itself forced to recognize the importance of
cultural heritage, landscape and environment, classifying and
protecting it with the force of law".
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Rua Goncalo de Carvalho
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