Rua Pres. Antônio Carlos Webcam in Passos-MG

Take a look at this quiet Brazilian street, the Rua Presidente Antônio Carlos, and you might quickly come to the conclusion that it’s in a rural town where life goes on at a slow pace. It’s not.

This street with its zebra-striped pavements is in the city of Passos in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais in the southeast of the country. Passos is a huge city which covers over one-thousand three-hundred square kilometres and has a population of over a hundred-thousand. While Minas Gerais is renowned for its deposits of precious gemstones like emeralds and diamonds, Passos isn’t famous for anything. It may be one day though and it will probably be for having the cleanest, tidiest shopping street in Brazil.