Brazil
holidays: Where to go
Sao Paulo - SP- Brazil
With 18 million inhabitants, the
financial capital of Brazil is a multifacética
and attractive large city that allows to
infinites strolls. A recommended circuit and how
to draw for to the transit and other
disadvantages.
Everything is enormous in Sao Paulo. The museums,
the hotels, the popular soccer stadiums , parks,
libraries, theaters, trade fairs, shoppings and
the restaurants seem to correspond to that saying
just by to watch from the window of the airplane
the interminable accumulation of buildings,
crossed by two rivers and tens of freeways. Great
and chaotic, Sao Paulo is the South American
capital of the industry and the businesses. But
also it is one of the more important cultural
centers of the planet. The slogan more used by
the paulistas leaves it well clear: Here
everything happens at the same time and
now. Discover this incredible large city
that it finishes turning 450 years.
"For almost five years since I live in Sao
Paulo and still I do not know it", Raul, an
Argentinean who works in the financial district.
For that reason, better nor to try to be an
expert overnight. It is necessary to visit some
places and to pass it best the possible thing.
Most of the tourists who arrive here they do it
by businesses, work or conventions. But always
there is time for the distension. For example,
crossing the gorgeous Paulista Avenue, zone of
banks that mix old buildings with ultramodern
constructions and also it is transformed into the
place chosen by the multitudes to concentrate
itself in the celebrations.
Because of the transit chaos, that does not untie
its traffic knots even in the early morning, It
is better to move with the metro (subway), that
is modern, safe, it is used by two million people
per day and crosses great part of the 2,547
districts that has the city. With th metro is
possible to be arrived at the Patio of the
School, the exact place where the city the
January 25, 1554 was based. There it is worth to
take a classic Brazilian coffee in an historical
patio surrounded by the original walls of one
from the first Portuguese establishments in
America. Alongside it is the museum and,
opposite, the great building of the Palace of
Justice, that sometimes was the first theater of
the city.
To walk by San Pablo is not a task for anyone: it
is necessary to know well what districts can be
crossed without danger; in addition, he is very
simple to lose itself by those streets that
double, raise constantly and lower. But the
sacrifice is worth the trouble to run into with
the construction art decó that entered the
Guinness book to have 1,600 departments and that
were constructed as if outside a flag flaming:
"Ouro Para o Bem de Sao Paulo", in the
Alvares Penteado street . And blocks advanced
more is possible to surprise before the
dimensions of the Municipal Library, where they
are stored more than 400,000 books.
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