
Largest Beach Front Garden - Santos, Brazil
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saopaulo1
S 23° 58.548 W 046° 19.162
23K E 365772 N 7347824
Quick Description: In 2005 the Guinness Book of World Records named the beach front garden of Santos, Brazil, the largest in the world.
Location: Brazil
Date Posted: 7/11/2007 2:12:36 PM
Waymark Code: WM1V82
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Long Description:"The beach at Santos, Brazil, is bordered by a garden 5.3 km (3.3
miles) long. It has a total area of 218,800 sq m (2,355,143 sq ft)
and the green belt is separated by six canals.
The garden is so gigantic that it has 38 people looking after it
all year round. The first part of the garden was completed in 1939
by the Czechoslovakian gardener Carlos Colarquis. In the 1950s, the
size of the beachfront avenue was doubled and a decade later the
Mayor, Silvio Clemente, asked a garden guru to develop something
even more amazing. The final changes to the garden took place in
1972 and 1976.
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The garden has 719 flowerbeds and 1,746 trees of 20 different
species. The path running through the garden is 5,247 m (17,214 ft)
long. The garden is also jam-packed with statues, including a
monument to Christopher Columbus and another remembering the first
Europeans to arrive in Brazil." (Source: Guinness Book of World
Records - 2005 edition)