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.
Land reclamation began in the 1950s, when rock from the demolition of Santo Antônio Hill was dumped into Guanabara Bay to form a riprap and a lagoon that was later filled. The park itself, attributed to Lota de Macedo Soares and designed by Affonso Eduardo Reidy with planting by Roberto Burle Marx, opened on 17 October 1965 with 1,200,000 square metres. In the 1970s it was named after Brigadier Eduardo Gomes.
The park's official name honours Brigadier Eduardo Gomes, a war hero and Brazilian politician, adopted in the 1970s. Since 2002 a Japan Festival has been held each August beside the Japanese Pavilion, a modernist building inspired by Japanese architecture that now houses the park administration. All the park's facilities were designed by architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy.
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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