Praça dos Leões

In 1831 the "Palace Square" was planned and then the square begins to be urbanized being inaugurated in 1856. After the death of General Tiburcio Antonio Ferreira de Sousa, hero of the War of Paraguay in 1885, the first public statue of the city was erected in his honor on the square in 1888.

The General Tiburcio square or as it is popularly called the Lion Square is a square in the city of Fortaleza. The name is in honor of Tiburcio Antonio Ferreira de Sousa in recognition of his participation in political and military campaigns in the platinum region. On April 8, 1888 was inaugurated a monument to General Tiburcio, the first to be erected in Fortaleza.

Around the square are the Museum of Ceará and Ceará Academy of Arts. There are several other statues in the square highlighting the three statues of lions and life-size statue of the writer Rachel Queiroz sitting on a bench. The square design features regular geometry, characteristic of the neoclassical period, and its construction dated 1887. The flooring is cemented in with natural color and reddish in the tables of the central square, surrounded with an iron fence along the General Bezerril street and the buildings of the Igreja do Rosário and Palácio da Luz. Alongisde the São Paulo and Sena Madureira streets there are concrete railing based on small pillars. The banks are made of wood and iron, the support of the floor. In the center of the square stands the monument of General Tiburcio and at the confluence of the St. Paul streets and Sena Madureira, monuments with huge lions.

General Tiburcio Square, XIX century remote construction is, with its surrounding buildings: Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, the Palace of Light and the Legislative Assembly, an important architectural, urban, historic environmental complex which depicts different eras of history and facts of Ceará.

Location:  intersection of St. Paul and Sena Madureira streets.

Activities near to Praça dos Leões

Praça do Ferreira (sightseeing) - As the main city square, with stores, restaurants, a movie theater and plenty of benches it is the "heart" of Fortaleza. It has been the main meeting point of the capital, the scene of literary "Spiritual Bakery" in 1892. Recently passed a reform which added a new column clock and gardens in a reconstitution of the original architecture. In Ferreira square, formed themselves into big business and bi... Address: Praça do Ferreira, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil Distance: 0.00km from the Praça dos Leões
Christmas in Fortaleza (festival) - Christmas decorations outside of shopping centers begin to be seen early in November with Christmas lights. The Ferreira Square and vicinities, which is one of the largest displays of Christmas decorations in Fortaleza always has four eighteen meter high trees. The city is aglow with Christmas trees and decorations all over the city such as the Sea Dragon Centre and its vicinities, the entire edge of the beach of Iracema and oth... Address: Praça do Ferreira Centro - Fortaleza - Ceará Distance: 0.00km from the Praça dos Leões
Palacete Ceará (historical) - The palace is one of Ceará most representative works of the early decades of this century (1920), a period when major changes occurred in the architectural appearance of the city. Projected by architect João Sabóia Barbosa, the building was owned by Mr.José Gentil Alves de Carvalho having been built by Rodolfo F. Silva e Filho. Its lines reveal elements inherent in the architectural eclect... Address: R. Guilherme Rocha, 48 - Centro Fortaleza - CE, 60030-140 Distance: 0.05km from the Praça dos Leões

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