Pedreira Paulo Leminski

The Pedreira Paulo Leminski is a house of spectacles outdoors in Curitiba with a capacity of up to 30,000 people. His name is a tribute to Paulo Leminski, curitibano writer of the twentieth century, and because the place formerly have served as a Municipal Pedreira, a plant of asphalt. Today the site is surrounded by a wall of rock thirty meters. Located in the neighborhood of Abranches, the site has about 103.5 thousand metres, and its stage has around 480m². It was implanted in 1990.

Near the quarry is the Wire Opera House, opened in 1992 because of the first Festival of Theater of Curitiba. Together, the two sites make up the Parque das Quarries.

Events in Pedreira

During the anniversary of the city's three hundred years, the pedreia was the scene of the tenor Jose Carreras, accompanied by the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra. Other renowned artists who have passed the stage include Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Milton Nascimento and Roberto Carlos. In March 4 2008, the British heavy metal band, Iron Maiden played its most ambitious tour ever, Somewhere Back In Time World Tour, to at least 20,000 fans.