Ground Zero Getulio Vargas Square

The Getulio Vargas Square is a public space of the city of Parana of Cascavel. Located on Avenida Brasil, between Pio 12 and Manoel Ribas streets, it became inaugurated on December 4, 1966. It has an obelisk that represents the landmark 0, around which the municipality changed into born and evolved. It was baptized with the name of the President of the Republic, Getulio Dorneles Vargas.

When inaugurated, a time tablet, consisting of a concrete field containing items of daily use, money, map, documents and other things of the time, turned into buried in the vicinity, with the aim of sooner or later, in a completely distant destiny to be determined. Within the 1960s, with the pavement of the so-referred to as "top notch avenue" - which connects the coast of Parana to Foz do Iguacu - it changed into determined to build a detour from the segment that handed via the central region of Cascavel. The ultimate course gave upward thrust to Avenida Brasil and Avenida.