Rua Gonçalo de Carvalho

Rua Gonçalo de Carvalho is an avenue about 500 meters long in the Independência district of Porto Alegre in Brazil. It is famous for its more than a hundred native Tipuana trees, whose treetops touch each other and give the impression of a green tunnel or a green roof. The view from above is particularly impressive and familiar, as the avenue draws a green strip through an otherwise metropolitan high-rise landscape. The trees were planted in the 1930s by workers of a former brewery. The avenue is named after a Portuguese Dominican . In the new millennium, there were attempts by city planners to cut some of the trees to make way for a shopping center, which a citizens' initiative prevented. In 2006, the then Mayor, José Fogaça , declared the Rua Gonçalo de Carvalho part of the city's cultural heritage.

Pascal Brackman