Inhotim

Minas Gerais guard enchantments of all the types! Here have history, culture, gastronomy and diversific fauna and flora, what were believing the only sceneries in Brazil! Have no coast, but it has beach of fresh water. Have no station of ski, but it had already up to snow in the Mantiqueira's mountain range! The tourist motivations are infinite and the offer of walks, quite interesting!

One of the unlosable places is the magnificent Centre of Contemporary Art of Inhotim, a museum-park there is 60 kms of the main city Belo Horizonte.
The museum began through the particular collection of his owner, Bernardo Paz, what finished great works of art off along the last 30 years in auctions taken place throughout the world. They are approximately 350 works of more than 80 artists, containing exhibitions of It Insists, Cildo Meireles, Adriana Varejão, Doris Salcedo, Andy Warhol, Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Victor Grippo, Chris Burden and Pipilotti Rist.

The representative heap of contemporary art takes works as a focus created from the 1960 years. It has paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographies, videos and installations of Brazilian and international artists. The heap is very well installed amid the most beautiful ecological park projected by the landscape painter Burle Marx. The enormous variety of plants does from Inhotim a place where there is one of the biggest botanical collections of the world, with tropical rare sorts and a forest reserve that makes part of the Atlantic Forest's bioma. Distinction for the collection of orchids, which color still more the gardens.

The place is formed by extremely inviting environments, with pleasant areas for rest or simple contemplation of the nature amid a sophisticated and modern design. Deck-chairs, flirts and green grasses suggest an analysis more deep of the works of a quite comfortable way (cheers for Domenico de Masi with his theory of the creative leisure!).

The infrastructure of the place is excellent! A charming and sophisticated restaurant, with international menu (and price also "international"), cafeterias and snack bars spread by the park, completely with great design and good taste! Other not less important details, like the bathrooms, are a part chapter: more there seem environments decorated by renowned professionals to the style brazilian CASA COR. At the reception and the souvenir store they are the best and the professional ones are very quite trained and cordial, besides answering in 4 different languages. There is still a parking with the "Disney Methodology", where the car have to park in a order of arrival, making easy for the drivers. (That is common there in his city?? Here in Minas Gerais not, therefore the approach! :)

There is still a discreet heliport, which receives visitors resulted from other states. Celebrities lands this way every week, disposed to know a little more on the interesting heap and to check the new exhibitions.

Inhotim is so like that: done for the one who can appreciate the art, be in the heap, be in the structure, be in the scenery! It is still not possible to visit it to the living creature, cape in the web: http: // http://www.inhotim.org.br/ In the real or virtual field, it is simply unlosable! One more point for the culture of Minas Gerais!