Places to Visit

SIGHTSEEING IN CUIABÁ

Cuiabá, the capital of the State of MatoGrosso, is located in the Goedesic center of South America. It is also known as the Green City. With this superb location, it is the gateway to three large ecosystems (Amazon, Pantanal and Cerrado). Cuiabá is a strategic starting point to the most diverse attractions.

SESC ARSENAL

There you can find:

A database of texts of performing arts - Tuesday to Friday - 13h to 17h and 18h to 22h - Saturday - 18h to 22h - Free Acces

A Library - Tuesday to Friday - 09am to 21:45 / Sat. - 13h to 21h45

The Bulixo - Thursdays - 18h to 22h – food, drinks and handcraft vendors - Free Entry

Musical Center - Tuesday to Friday - 14h to 21h - Free Access

Choperia – An outdoor bar with live music – from Tuesday to Saturday: 19h to 23h - Couvert: £ 3.00 per person - Choperia: Tuesday to Saturday: 16h to 23h - Sunday: 15h to 21h

Cinema - with 78 seats, digital sound, projection equipment on 16mm, VHS and DVD.

Reacreational pedagogical stations – with board games and small toys worshops. School scheduling Tuesday to Friday: 17h to 20h / Saturday and Sunday: 16h to 20h

An Art Gallery

A HandCraft Shop

A Social hall

A Dance Room

SESC Music - Access: www.sesc.com.br/sescpartituras

A Theater

Rua 13 de junho street, s/nº - Porto
Phone numbers: ( 65 ) 3616.6937
Open on Tuesday to Saturday from 1pm to 12am; on Sundays, 4pm to 8pm.

HILD ALFRED SCAFF MUSEUM AND JUSTINO MALHEIROS MUNICIPAL AQUARIUS

AV Beira Rio, s / nº - Porto
Phone numbers: ( 65 ) 3617.1286 ( Museum ) / 3313.3158 ( Aquarius ).
The Museum opens from Monday to Sunday from 9am to 5pm. The Aquarius opens from Monday to Friday, 9am to 3pm.

MORRO DA CAIXA D'ÁGUA VELHA MUSEUM

An awesome part of the history of Cuiabá, it is not only about old water cisterns. There you can find guide tours, works of arts and old photographs of Cuiabá. Admission is free.

Rua Comandante Costa, s / nº - City Center
Phone numbers: ( 65 ) 3617.1225
Opens : Monday to Friday from 8am to 5pm.

IMAGE AND SOUND MUSEUM - MISC “LÁZARO PAPAZIAN”

Opened in 2006, the Museum of Image and Sound of Cuiabá ‘Lazarus Papazian’ - (MISC) has a collection of photographic and audio documents that portray the city in its daily lives from 1910 to the present day. The images were captured by photographers Euripides Andreato - about 8,000 photographs, and Lazarus Papazian - over 25,000 photos. In addition, the museum has loads of vinyl records, videotapes and audiotapes VHF.


Rua Voluntários da Pátria, s / nº - City Center
Phone numbers : ( 65 ) 3617.1288 / 3617.1274
Opens : Monday to Friday from 2pm to 6pm.

SACRED ART MUSEUM

The Mission of the Museum is to preserve, conserve, promote and transmit the memory and history of the Sacred Art of Mato Grosso. It values and respects diversity.

Rua Clovis Hugney, Praça do Square Seminario, 239 - Dom Aquino
Phone number: ( 65 ) 3615.8489
Opens : Monday to Friday from 1pm to 6pm.

POPULAR ART AND CULTURE MUSEUM

Federal University of Mato Grosso - UFMT
Av Fernando Corrêa da Costa, 2367 - Boa Esperança
Phone number: ( 65 ) 3615.8355
Opens : Monday to Sunday from 7 : 30am to 5 :30pm

" RAMIS BUCAIR " MUSEUM OF STONES

Rua Galdino Pimentel, 195 – City Center
Phone number: ( 65 ) 3322.5054
Opens : Monday to Friday from 1pm to 5pm.

PRE HISTORY MUSEUM

Casa Dom Aquino - Av Beira Rio, s / nº - Jardim Europa
Phone number: ( 65 ) 3613.9290
Opens : Monday to Friday from 8am to 5 : 30pm; Saturdays from 8am to 5pm.

MATO GROSSO HISTORICAL MUSEUM

Praça da República, s / nº - City Center
Phone number: ( 65 ) 3613.9234
Opens : Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 5 : 30pm, on Saturdays from 8am to 11am.

INDIAN MUSEUM

Federal University of Mato Grosso - UFMT Av Fernando Corrêa da Costa, 2367 - Boa Esperança
Phone number : ( 65 ) 3615.8489
Opens : Monday to Friday from 8am to 11:30am.



Other Features:


The Fish Market - (now Museum of Rio Cuiaba ).


Parks: Mãe Bonifácia and MassairoOkamura, with areas for exercise and walking and biking trails.


Passagem da Conceicão - former fishing village that has one of the most famous fresh water fish restaurants in the state of MT.


Historic Center of Cuiabá - Formed by colonial mansions of eighteenth century architecture , the Historic Center of Cuiabá houses a maze of narrow winding streets , which once was the trail of adventurers in search of gold in the region. The area was registered by the Institute of National Historical and Artistic Heritage ( IPHAN ) in 1993 , covering an area of 13 acres, with approximately 400 properties .

Geodesic Center of South America - Cuiabá is under the Geodesic Center of South America ( equidistant point between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ) at 15 ° 35'56 coordinates " , 80 south latitude and 56 ° 06'05 " , longitude 55 west. Situated in the current Praça Pascoal Moreira Cabral. The square was known as Campo d' Ourique , where slaves used to be punished and where the cavalhadas and bullfights used to be held.


People's Square - One of the busiest points of Cuiabá, the Eurico Gaspar Dutra Square , also known as People's Square , is a busy leisure, gastronomy and culture center in Cuiabá


Palace of Education – It is a beautiful historical building, located in the central region of Cuiaba, alongside the Metropolitan Cathedral. It was opened in 1914. Nowadays, it is the headquarters of the State Secretariat of Culture, the Museum of Natural History and Anthropology and the Public Library . Praça da República – City Center.


Church of the Good Shepherd – It is also called " Notre Dame Cuiabana ". It is considered the most beautiful church in the city . Its gothic style, was designed by a French architect. Although it was inaugurated in 1919, the church is still unfinished. Praça do Seminário, City Center.


The Xingu Indigenous Park – It was created in 1961 on the initiative of explorers led by the Villas Boas brothers , aims to ensure the survival , better living conditions and land tenure to the indigenous population of the region in order to help to preserve their culture , habits and religion. Today, the park has about 5000 inhabitants of 15 different ethnic groups , gathered in 30 villages . In its 2,642,003 hectares, the local landscape displays a great biodiversity in a region of ecological transition , the savannas and dry semideciduous forests south to the Amazon rain forest to the north, including dense forests , fields and forests . Location :north of Mato Grosso, 530 km from Cuiabá .


PANTANAL

The Pantanal is one of the world's largest tropical wetland areas, and is located mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, but it extends into Mato Grosso and portions of Bolivia and Paraguay. It sprawls over an area between 140,000 and 195,000 square kilometres (54,000 and 75,000 sq mi). Various subregional ecosystems exist there, each with distinct hydrological,geological and ecological characteristics; up to 12 of them have been defined.

About 80% of the Pantanal floodplains are submerged during the rainy seasons, nurturing an astonishing biologically diverse collection of aquatic plants and helping to support a dense array of animal species.

The name "Pantanal" comes from the Portuguese word pântano, meaning wetland, bog, swamp, quagmire or marsh. By comparison, the Brazilian highlands are locally referred to as the planalto, plateau or, literally, high plain.

CHAPADA DOS GUIMARÃES

Located in the north of the state, the National Park offers a stunning spectacle: archaeological sites displaying rock paintings, waterfalls, observations decks, rivers and caves. Chapada is characterized by large rock formations and sandstone canyons up to 350 meters high.