Brazil - The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget - page 342

Brasilia

MATO
GROSSO
DO SUL

SÃO
PAULO

Maringá

Londrina

PARANÁ

Guaíra

Ponta
Grossa Guaraqueçaba

PARAGUAY

Prudentópolis

Curitiba Cascaval

Antonina

Ciudad del Este

Foz do Iguaçu

Irati

Morretes

Paranaguá

Puerto Iguazú

Iguaçu
Falls

União da Vitoria

Joinville São

Francisco
do Sul
Itajaí

Dionisio
Cerqueira SANTA

CATARINA

Caçador

São Miguel d'Oeste

3

Blumenau

Chapecó

Balneário
Camboriú

Encarnación

Joaçaba

á

Erechim

Florianópolis

Ilha de
Santa
Catarina

Posadas Lajes

ARGENTINA

São Joaquim

Santo Angelo

Passo
Fundo

Vacaria

Criciúma

Laguna

São Miguel
dos Missões

P.N. DOS
APARADOS
DO SERRA

São Borja

RIO
GRANDE
DO SUL

Caxias
do Sul

Torres

Gramado

Canela

Santa Maria

Porto Alegre

Uruguaiana

Santana
do Livramento

Mostardas

Bagé

Aceguá

N Pelotas

Rio Grande

Lagoa
Mirim

URUGUAY

0 250

THE SOUTH

Chuí

kilometres

Rua das Flores
he Rua das Flores - a pedestrianized
precinct section of the Rua XV de
Novembro, lined with graceful, pastel-
coloured early twentieth-century
buildings - is the centre's main late
afternoon and early evening meeting
point. Few of the surrounding streets are
especially attractive, but the former city
hall, at Praça José Borges , across from the
flower market, is well worth a look.

Praça Tiradentes and
the historic quarter
A couple of blocks north from Rua das
Flores is Praça Tiradentes , the site where
the city was founded and home to the
neo-Gothic Catedral Basílica de Nossa
Senhora da Luz . From here a pedestrian
tunnel leads to Curitiba's historic quarter ,
an area of impeccably preserved
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
buildings of Portuguese and central