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Spring Break in Brazil
We'll
bring a group of athletes to Brazil to compete and enjoy a cultural
experience.
• About the destination's Sports's Club
ABOVE YOU CAN SEE A VIDEO OF THE BRAZILIAN SPORTS CLUB in Belo Horizonte, Minas Tenis Clube where the training and competitions will take place.
See previous competition: 2008 One World Games USA at the YMCA
About the project:
This project is for a team or individual swimmer, basketball or soccer player from High School or College, who wants to have the opportunity to workout, compete and have a cultural experience in Brazil.
The group will fly out of New York's JFK airport and will stay in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
The athletes will workout and compete at Minas
Tenis Clube, one of the most impressive social &
sport clubs in Brazil. Besides the sport, the group will visit
many sites in the city of Belo Horizonte, watch a soccer game in one
of the biggest soccer stadiums in the country, "Mineirão"
Stadium, visit the historical town of Ouro Preto and interact
with athletes from Brazil (please see the schedule and website
information).
Included on this trip
• Round trip airfare New York - Belo
Horizonte.
• Hotel in Belo Horizonte.
• Ground Transportation in Brazil.
• Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner
at Minas Tenis Clube.
• Workout and competition at the Minas Tenis Clube.
• Bilingual Guide (English and Portuguese) for the historical sites
and museums.
• Trip to the town of Ouro Preto.
• Tickets to visit historical sites in Ouro Preto.
• Restaurant in Ouro Preto.
About the destination's Sports Club:
Minas Tênis Clube is located in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil and was founded in 1933. It is the biggest sports complex in South America and one of largest in the world. The complex occupies about 5.381.955 square feet.
The club has about 1,200 athletes competing in six Olympic sports modalities: Volleyball, Swimming, Basketball, Gymnastics, Tennis and Judo, among them some of the best athletes in the country.
Minas Tenis has one the best training centers in South America and one of largest aquatic centers in the world.
Also has many youth sports programs helping to develop the new generation of athletes as young as three years old.
One of the club’s unites, the Minas Country, is integrated with nature. The area is a natural reserve where the members can explore a range of great outdoor activities and sports.
Swimming
The swimmers will be representing the United States in a competition against the Brazilian swimmers. The competition will be held at Minas Tenis Clube, one of the most impressive social and sports complex in Brazil and the world. This project is for a team or individual swimmer, who wants to compete and have a cultural experience in Brazil. The group will stay in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, flying out of New York's JFK airport.
Besides the sport, the group will visit
many sites in the city of Belo Horizonte, will watch a soccer game
in one of the biggest soccer stadiums in the country (the "Mineirão" Stadium),
will visit the historical town of Ouro Preto and will interact
with athletes from Brazil.
Basketball
This is an exiting opportunity to play some of the top basketball teams
in Brazil. The project is for a team or individual basketball player
who wants to have an opportunity to workout, compete and have
a cultural experience in Brazil.
The group will be based in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil,
flying out of New York's JFK airport. Athletes will workout and
compete at the Minas Tenis Clube, one of the most impressive social
& sport clusb in Brazil.
About the destinations:
Belo Horizonte
Belo
Horizonte websites
Photos
of Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte, the capital from Minas Gerais, is proud to be one of the best cities in the Country to live. It has wide avenues, squares and forested areas, delighting everyone who visits. Fondly nicknamed Belô or Beagá, the city offers interesting leisure areas, theaters boasting an intense artistic-cultural production, good and varied cuisine, exquisite handcrafts available on the markets and specialized stores, and maintains a traditional characteristic: the “mineira” hospitality.
The city is currently a dynamic metropolis, with 2,5 million residents. Considering the municipalities forming the Metropolitan Region, this population goes up to four million residents, according to the 2000 Census. In today’s bold and modern city, the economic development has been going through the professionalization of many different tourism segments, above all the events and business segments. For this reason the advantages this city could offer do not stop there. BH has a quality tourism infrastructure, with good airports, hotels and restaurants, a vast array of services, sophisticated shopping, active nightlife and good spaces for medium sized events, contributing for the consolidation of its vocation for the business and services sector.
Attractions:
Liberdade Square Architectural Complex
One of the best trips for those visiting Belo Horizonte is the landscape and architectural complex at Liberdade Square. Built at the time of the capital’s foundation, it boasts a mixture of various styles, which are the live portrait of the city’s evolution. Neoclassic (end of the XIX century), Art-Déco (1940’s decade), Modern (1950 and 1960’s decades) and Postmodern (1980). It’s also the center of the mineiro Executive power; actually, it has been designed for this purpose. It centralizes great part of the State Offices, and also the Liberdade Palace, where the Governor is based.
Squares
For quite some time Belo Horizonte held the title of “Garden City”. Even today, the amount of green preservation is impressive. There are over two million trees, including streets, parks and squares.
The belo-horizontino has double the green area recommended by the World Health Organization. There are 500 squares, contributing for a better quality of life in the city – places for sports practice, cultural demonstrations and recreation.
Pampulha Architectural Complex
The artificial lagoon was built in the 1940 decade, when Juscelino Kubitscheck was the Mayor. To compose its margins the architect Oscar Niemeyer has designed an architectural complex that became a reference and has influenced all the modern Brazilian architecture. Parts of the complex are the São Francisco de Assis church, the Art Museum, Baile House and the Iate Tênis Club. Burle Marx’s gardens, Portinari’s painting and sculptures from Ceschiatti, Zamoiski and José Pedrosa complete and add value to the project conceived for the lagoon.
The Pampulha margins gather many leisure options, such as the Mineirinho stadium, the Zoo, the Lagoon’s Equestrian Preparation Center, and bike and walking tracks. Also located there is the Governador Magalhães Pinto Stadium, better known as "Mineirão".
Parks
The mineira capital has almost 30 parks and a further 200 green areas. It is an environmental heritage that contributes to make the city more pleasant for residents and visitors.
Museum
Belo Horizonte has a number of museums, among them: Mineiro Museum, Abílio Barreto Historic Museum, Arts and Workmanship Museum, Natural History Museum and the UFMG Botanic Gardens, Telephone Museum, Pampulha Art Museum, Mineralogy Museum Prof. Djalma Guimarães, UFMG Conservatory, Giramundo Museum.
Other Attractions
The city boasts other attractions, such as: observatories, movie
theaters, nightclubs, live music, etc.
OURO PRETO (World Heritage Site by UNESCO)
Information about Ouro
Preto
Photos
of Ouro Preto
To walk through the steep and narrow streets of Ouro Preto – that still keep the original stone pavement – is like taking a stroll in time. Former Capital of the State of Minas Gerais, Ouro Preto attracts tourists from all over Brazil and the world who want to know our history and Aleijadinho’s and Ataíde’s sacramental art, as well as the local arts and crafts and the typical food from Minas Gerais.
The city was granted the title of Cultural Heritage of Humanity by Unesco. This has permitted the preservation of one of the richest architectonic complexes in the country until today. Ouro Preto was an important economic and political center in the 18th Century, when enormous quantities of gold were found in the mountains of Minas Gerais, which brought great development to the region.
The large houses, churches and palaces built during the so-called Gold Cycle are museums visited by thousands of people, displaying the former owner’s objects. The houses that used belonged to the conspiracy members, and the baroque churches decorated with gold in the most classical rococo style, now house art and history. And if culture and history become tiresome, and you would like a more direct contact with nature, Ouro Preto offers the Itacolomi State Park, with hiking trails and many waterfalls.
