Flamengo Park, Urban park in Flamengo District, Brazil
Flamengo Park is a long strip of green space along Guanabara Bay between Santos Dumont Airport and Botafogo Beach, covering around 120 hectares. The park connects several sports fields, museums, playgrounds, and walking paths with views of the water and mountains of the surrounding districts.
The site took shape from 1961 through land reclamation from the bay, using earth from tunnel construction across the city. Roberto Burle Marx designed the planting and layout, which officially opened in 1965 to mark Rio de Janeiro's four-hundredth anniversary.
The name comes from the district and its nearby lagoon, both tied to Portuguese settlers from Flanders. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art or Carmen Miranda Museum find rotating exhibitions on Brazilian art and popular culture, accessible without requiring entry to the park itself.
Access is free at any hour, though most sports facilities and museums keep their own opening times. Cyclists find wide paths here that also work well for inline skating and strollers.
More than two hundred plant species were distributed according to a master plan by Roberto Burle Marx, so that certain patterns and color sequences become visible from the surrounding hills. The trees and beds follow wave-like lines that echo the shapes of the Copacabana promenade.
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