Street XV

O L'Avenue Apart Hotel l this situated one in one of the most visited points tourist of Curitiba, Street XV.
A little of History...

The reason of the poetic baptism

“The Flowers’ Street”

       The ancient used to affirm that it was due to the numberless rosebushes, creepers and other flowery plants, which were there in the backyards, fences and uncultivated land, in a notable quantity, presenting color and beauty during the opening of the street.
       In 1879, The Flowers’ Street was one of the most primitive streets, it didn’t have pavement, only a red and thin dust, which during rainy days would become viscous mud. People had to wear boots which were famous by that time. The mud would transform the shoes in heavy mud blocks and make it very difficult to walk.
       With its house, not lined up, with its roofs with no gutters, when it was raining, it used to wet all the people who needed to pass by. The illumination was made with gas lamps during the darkest nights. When the moon was full, they did not use the gas lamp in order to save.
       At the time, a narrow street, hardly illuminated, formed for only three blocks with small constructions. The commerce developed, and in the early 70’s, The Flowers’ Street was closed for vehicles and it became to be the first pavemented streetk in Brazil.
       To close The Flowers’ Street was not so easy; To introduce the news with resistence of the commerce that was not used to it and prefered the vehicles’ traffic through the narrow street that a few years before had two hands (both ways). But along with the years, people started getting used to it and realized that the street of become a great street of commerce, an outdoor mall.
       Postcard, place for meetings and gossips where everyone must walk through. The Flowers’ Pavemented street, in Curitiba, the first in the country is something else. It’s the “curitibanos beach”.

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