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Londrina is the second-largest city of Paraná in southern Brazil, a modern university city in the north of the state famous for its British-inspired name, meaning Little London, and for the coffee boom that built it. The land was opened up from 1929 by the Companhia de Terras Norte do Paraná, a British-backed colonisation company, and the town became a municipality in 1934.
Settlers from Japan, Italy, Germany and other parts of Brazil cleared the red-earth forest for coffee, and the wealth of the 1950s left a striking modernist heritage. The old bus station by architect Vilanova Artigas is now the Museu de Arte, the old railway station holds the city's history museum, and the chalet-shaped cathedral rises over the centre.
Londrina is green too. Lago Igapó, an artificial lake opened in 1959, has a garden by Roberto Burle Marx, and parks such as Arthur Thomas and Daisaku Ikeda protect patches of the Atlantic Forest. Further out lie the old-growth woods of Mata dos Godoy State Park and the tall Apucaraninha waterfall on Kaingang indigenous land.
The Catedral Metropolitana de Londrina, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, stands on the highest ground of the original town centre. The first wooden church opened in 1934, and the present modern building, with its steep chalet-like roof, can be seen from many parts of Londrina.
The Museu Histórico de Londrina Padre Carlos Weiss is a museum of Londrina State University that tells the story of the city's pioneers, coffee farms and settlers. Opened in 1970, it has been housed since 1986 in the old railway station building in the centre of Londrina.
The Museu de Arte de Londrina opened on 12 May 1993 in a listed building on Rua Sergipe in central Londrina. Designed in 1952 by architect Vilanova Artigas, the building served as the city bus terminal until 1988, and the museum's first show featured Rodin's sculpture Eternal Springtime.
The Cine Teatro Ouro Verde is a listed theatre in central Londrina, opened on 24 December 1952 and designed by Vilanova Artigas. Bought by Londrina State University in 1978, it has hosted the Londrina International Festival since the 1980s and reopened in 2017 after a fire in 2012.
Lago Igapó is an artificial lake in Londrina, created on the Cambezinho stream to solve a drainage problem caused by a natural stone barrier. It opened on 10 December 1959, the city's silver jubilee, and was later revitalised with a garden by Roberto Burle Marx featuring 187 native plant species.
The Palacete da Família Garcia is a historic mansion on Avenida Higienópolis in central Londrina, built from 1945 to 1948 for the Spanish-born pioneer Celso Garcia Cid. The two-storey eclectic house, where Juscelino Kubitschek stayed in 1963, was listed as Paraná state heritage in 2011.
The Concha Acústica de Londrina is a modernist bandshell on Praça 1º de Maio in central Londrina, opened on Labour Day, 1 May 1957. Designed by architect Henrique Mindlin, its concrete half-dome is 9 metres high, and it has long hosted concerts, weekend promenades and political rallies.
The Estádio do Café, officially Estádio Municipal Jacy Scaff, is the football stadium of Londrina, about 4 kilometres north of the city centre. Opened on 22 August 1976 with a 1-1 draw between Londrina and Flamengo, it holds about 36,000 fans and its horseshoe opens towards the city.
Parque Arthur Thomas is an 85-hectare forest park about 6 kilometres from central Londrina, created in 1975 and opened to visitors in 1987. It protects one of the last patches of Atlantic Forest in the region and holds a waterfall and the city's first hydroelectric plant, built in 1939.
Zerão, officially the Área de Lazer Luigi Borghesi, is a leisure park in Londrina named after its 1,050-metre jogging track shaped like a giant zero. Inside are lawns, sports courts and a playground, and it hosts shows of the Londrina International Festival and the Londrina Music Festival.
Parque Daisaku Ikeda is an ecological park about 12 kilometres from central Londrina, created in 1999 and opened in 2000 beside the Três Bocas stream. It keeps remains of the Três Bocas hydroelectric plant, which ran from 1943 to 1983, and its Atlantic Forest trails shelter 96 bird species.
The Salto do Apucaraninha is a waterfall about 116 metres high on the southern border of Londrina municipality, around 80 kilometres from the city centre. It lies within the Apucaraninha indigenous reserve of the Kaingang people, and its river drains into the valley of the Tibagi River.
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