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SÃO PAULO
Established in 1554 for the Jesuit priests, São Paulo was the first city that was fully constructed in the country. It is the main financial center of the country and the biggest metropolis of all America of the South reached one high development in century XIX thanks to the culture of the coffee, and the arrival of the Italian, Spanish, Russian, Armenian and Asian immigrants. |
MASP - Paulista Avenue
Metropolitan Cathedral of Sé - SP
Circolo Italiano - Italian Building
Municipal Theater - SP
Park of Ibirapuera - SP
Park of Ibirapuera - SP
Maresias - São Sebastião
City and Beach of Guarujá - SP
City and Beach of Santos - SP
Courtyard of College - Centre of SP
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São Paulo does not deny the craze for the work and the vocation for businesses. With very effort, the natives of São Paulo had obtained economically to make of São Paulo the most important State of Latin America. Beyond the thousands cultural attractions, São Paulo also offers the best options of tourism. Bathed for the Atlantic, the São Paulo coast has 622 kilometers dotted for beaches of the most diverse types and sizes. In the coast north the beaches if spread around cities as Bertioga, São Sebastião, Caraguatatuba and Ubatuba, and in islands as the Ilhabela, paradise of surfistas and sailers. In the south coast, around the cities of Iguape and Cananéia, where also some more important natural areas of the planet are preserved, as the Ecological Station Juréia-Itatins and the Island of the Cardoso, in the Logamar - Complex Estuarino Lagunar de Iguape, Cananéia, Antonina and Paranaguá. |
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Separating the coast of São Paulo plateaus, the scarp of the mountain range of the sea, in full Atlantic bush, it was a great obstacle to be looser in last centuries. Today, this door of entrance for the interior of the State is focus of attention of the Reserve of the Biosfera of Atlantic Vegetation and of other organizations that search the preservation of this ecosystem that is reduced, in the Country, 5% of its original extension. In the countryside the tourist could go to find ranches, agricultural, ecological tourism, cities with European climate, mineral water waterfalls, caves, rivers, mountain ranges, sources natural, parks, historical constructions of centuries XVI, XVII, XVIII, archeological churches in Jesuit architecture and small farms. |
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Already the São Paulo capital is another monumental place of tourist options. The tourism business-oriented only provides more than 45 thousand events per year. In the capital, some places you cannot leave without visit. The Bela Vista (Italian quarter), the commercial Liberdade (Oriental quarter) and streets: 25 of March (Arab) and Jose Paolino (Israeli). In these places you will be able to have a good notion of the variety of immigrants who had come to install themselves to cheer and to develop São Paulo still more. |
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The city also offers an intense artistic and cultural life. No stroll for the city will be complete without a visit to the cultural centers and the museums, whose quantities keep workmanships of great international painters and the biggest national artists. If you like historical monuments, you do not leave to know the churches of the city, especially the Convent Nossa Senhora da Luz, constructed in 1579. |
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It dives with will in the São Paulo nocturnal life and confers its hundreds of bars, calm or agitated, clubs, theaters, cinemas, spectacles, shows, dances of all the types, beerhouses and everything more than you can imagine. |
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Cathedral Metropolitan of the Sé - In the Square of the Sé, in the center of the city, it meets Cathedral of the Sé, the greatest church of the city, finished to the middle of century XX, neogotic style and immense ratios, its towers reaches a height of 92 meters and its cupola is distinguished in a space of 30 meters, possessing space for 4.000 people. Account with an agency of Italian origin, that is the greater of America of the South in its cripta, that a true underground church can be considered, can be appreciated sculptures of the artist Francisco Leopoldo. Also deserves a visit to the Basilica of São Pedro, in the Plaza of São Pedro, and the Sacral Museum, in the Church of the Light is interesting also to contemplate the architecture of the Railroad station. |
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Museum of Art of São Paulo <MASP> - One meets in full financial center of São Paulo, in the São Paulo Avenue, an original construction supported by 4 enormous lateral columns, weighing 9,2 tons, that favored to the creation of a great one go of 74 meters in the térreo. The MASP receives one of the richest quantities of art of the country, considered as most important of européia art of Latin America. It presents workmanships of Degas, Renoir, Modigliani and Bonnard, among others. Its collection is composed for 3.500 pieces, of which almost 850 is paintings that correspond to the artists who go since the Average Age until principles of century XX. The MASP participates of the international circuits of art and receives secular expositions from art of the Europe and the United States, besides providing some turnês international. It also counts on audiences that organize diverse cultural activities. |
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Pinacoteca of the State - The construction presents a structure of paving-tile and ample windows. The Pinacoteca suffered a great reform and currently in its restored halls and interior patios it receives important expositions. The center also has a profile very defined of Brazilian art of century XIX until the contemporaneidade. Its expositions allow to revise the art through Brazilian subjects. Its quantity is around of 4.000 pieces. |
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Museum of Modern Art - It is the museum of older art contemporary of the country. Account with about 2.000 workmanships displayed between engravings, objects, paintings and sculptures, the majority of produced them in Brazil since years 20. In addition, used to receive a great number from secular expositions. The Museum counts on a informatized library and a restaurant with sight for the 22 workmanships of the Garden of the Sculptures. |
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Museum Paulista - Inaugurated in 1895, initially it was created as Museum of Natural Sciences, following the model of European museums of the time, but in 1917, the center retook its vocation original and currently it is a historical museum, of renascentist neoclassic style. It is in the Park of Independence. Its great garden shelters a reduced rejoinder of the Gardens of the Palace of Versailles. |
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Churches - In São Paulo the buildings of colonial origin are scarce, conserve some as the Church Nossa Senhora da Luz, that shelters the Sacral Museum, in is distinguished the baroque oratories and a curious statue of São Jorge. Other churches of interest are of San Francisco, of baroque origin, with golden statues in the lateral altars and paintings of century XVIII, and the Basilica of São Bento, that shows an impressive agency of 6.000 pipes and beautiful statues. |
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Park of the Ibirapuera - Constructed in 1954 to celebrate the fouth centenarian of the foundation of São Paulo, is one of the most beautiful localities of the city, together to the State legislature and Monument to the Bandeirantes. |
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Memorial of Latin America - São Paulo concentrates some of the most important houses of culture of Brazil. One of most beautiful is the Memorial of Latin America, headquarters of the Latinoamericano Parliament. It is composed for a set of modern constructions, projected for Oscar Niemeyer, who shelters an immense and complex quantity on Latin America. The permanent exposition in the Pavilion of the Creativity, receives an artisan production of peoples of America, its history is collected in the Library of Americas, that integrates the room of reading, film and sound library. In the deep one it also has erudite music, popular Brazilian and Hispanic-American. The film library possess 1,200 films in video that go since the fiction to sets of documents. The Audience of the Memorial has capacity for 1.679 people and used to follow musical congresses, conventions, spectacles, and representations of dance and theater. In the Hall of Acts, panels are exposed painted by known artists of the continent. |
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