Copy of Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo - City

ipiranga museum

art galery - sao paulo

(pinacoteca - sao paulo)

Colonial Period

Liberdade

Se cathedral

(catedral da sé)

• Ipiranga Museum is a Brazilian history museum.
• It contains a huge collection of furniture, documents and historically relevant artwork (Brazilian Empire Era).

• Sao Paulo city was founded in 1554 by Jesuit Catholic colonists. The colonial period was from 1500-1822.

• It is one of the most important art museums in Brazil. It is the oldest art museum in the city, founded in 1905.

It is the largest Japanese community outside of Japan in the world and has been growing since the 1950s.

Se Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sao Paulo. Its construction, began in 1913 and ended four decades later.

pÁTIO DO COLÉGIO

(courtyard of the college)

At this location, the city was founded in 1554.

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bandeirantes

Luz station

(estação da luz)

ibirapuera park

MUSEU DE ARTE DE SAO PAULO - masp

(SAO PAULO MUSEUM OF ART)

• Bandeirantes were exploiters who marched into unknown lands in search for gold, diamonds, precious stones, and Indians to make slaves of.

• Ibirapuera Park is the major urban park in the city. It has a large area for leisure, jogging and walking.

sao paulo museum of image and sound

(museu da imagem e do som - MIS)

• The station is part of the metropolitan rail system. The station is mostly notable for housing the Museum of the Portuguese Language.

monumento Às bandeiras

(Flag-followers monument)

• MASP is well known for having two lateral beams over a 74 meters freestanding space.

• It is a public museum of audio-visual works
• The main purpose of this museum is to studying and documenting works of the new media.

Monumento às Bandeiras is one of Sao Paulo’s most popular landmarks. Located Ibirapuera Park, it was built in 1954.

CLIMATE

paulista avenue

History about sao paulo - brazil

• It enjoys with summer rains (17 oC to 28 oC).
• In the winter beetween 11 oC and 23 oC.
• It is possible to experience all four seasons in just one day.
• It was known as "land of drizzle", but not anymore.

sao paulo aquarium

Lightning incidents

Paulista Avenue is one of the most important avenues in the city. It has almost 3 kilometres thoroughfare is notable for concentrating a large number of financial and cultural institutions.

The Sao Paulo Aquarium is one of the largest aquarium in Latin America.

sao paulo market

(mercado municipal)

Heavy rain and lightning in Sao Paulo, which has the largest number of lightning incidents amongst Brazilian provincial capitals

Immigrant's museum

(museu da imigração)

• It is a great place to sample a couple of classic Sampa delights:
• mortadella sandwiches and pasteis, pockets of dough stuffed with meat, cheese or fish and then fried.

• Immigrant's Hostel was opened in 1887 to welcome the immigrants who arrived in Brazil.
• In 1998 the hostel became a museum, where it preserves the immigrants' documentation, memory and objects.

estaiada Bridge

Estaiada bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in the city. It is the only bridge in the world that has two curved tracks supported by a single concrete mast. It was designed by Otavio Frias de Mesquita.

opera house - sao paulo

(Teatro municipal de sao paulo)

• The building now houses the São Paulo Municipal Symphonic Orchestra, Lyric Choir and the City Ballet of São Paulo.

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latin america memorial

(memorial da america latina)

The Latin America Memorial is a cultural, political and leisure complex in the city. It was designed by Oscar Niemeyer.

• It is the largest city in Brazil and Southern Hemisphere
• It has 1,523 km2
• There are 11.32 million people

OCA

Also called Oca do Ibirapuera, oca means thatched house in Native Brazilian Tupi-Guarani. Oca is an exhibition place with more than 10,000m2.

subway

• It is commonly called the Metrô, is the main rapid transit system in the city.
• In 2010, it won as the Best Subway System in America.
• But in the last years, it hasn't been supporting the numbers of passengers.

AGENDA

economy

local cuisine

• The Sao Paulo city is the largest and richest in Brazil, and one of the largest in the World.
• It is the finance and business capital of Brazil.
• More and more businesses are setting offices in the city.

• São Paulo were formed by immigration, their gastronomy is varied and cosmopolitan.
• It is considered the place with most "Sushi - Restaurants" outside Japan.
• On Sundays, Paulistanos eat more pizzas than all Italians together.
• The most popular restaurants are probably São Paulo's Steak Houses.