Rua Goncalo de Carvalho is a street
located in Porto Alegre, the capital and largest city in the Brazilian
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 ".
Over a span of 500 meters the sidewalks are lined with more than one
hundred Rosewood trees, going up to the seventh floor of the buildings
in some cases. According to some elderly residents, the trees were
planted in the 1930s by employees of German origin who worked in a
brewery in the neighborhood.
Photographs of the street circulated among environmental groups, and the "tunnel of trees" become increasingly popular. In 2008, a Portuguese biologist saw the pictures and wrote in his blog that it was the most beautiful street in the world. The nickname caught and the street has thus been called by several publications ever since.
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