10 Top-Rated Tourist Attractions & Things to Do in São Paulo

The largest city in South America, São Paulo is located in Piratininga plateau and is surrounded by rivers which excites inland. Almost from its founding in 1554, São Paulo became the entrance to the sertão (hinterland of Brazil), and Explorer known as bandeirantes expeditions from the city makes to this area. Major highways today to the interior cities are still following the path of bandeirantes.


Immigrants from all over the world have always been part of São Paulo, and you will still see the influence of the Portuguese population, Spain, Germany, African, Jewish, Arab, and Japan in the life and culture. There are entire museums devoted to immigration of Japan, for instance, and another for the contribution of the people of Africa in Brazil. Perhaps the hardest thing to understand about this is the actual size. A good way to get an idea of how far they are from the observation deck of the building in Question 46 Ita-floor at Avenida Ipiranga. Many of the attractions of São Paulo is widespread, so you will find the Metro as a good way to travel between them.

1. Museu de Arte

The São Paulo Museum of art, known locally as MASP, just opened in 1968 but has Western art collection is the most comprehensive and representative in Latin America. You'll see works by the Impressionist and modern masters-Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse, Manet, Debret, Picasso, Miró, along with 73 works of bronze sculpture by Degas himself. Although it has reached back to the artists of the Renaissance, this is one of the first art museum in this continent which focuses on artists in the mid-20th century and later, also contemporary artists in Brazil, including a Portinari and Di Cavalcanti. A superb collection put him in League with Tate Modern, MoMA, and the Centre Pompidou. The building itself, designed by the architect Lina Bo Brazil-Italy Bardi, is a classic of modernism. The Plaza under a dormant structure to host the Sunday antiques market and concerts that often.


2. The Teatro Municipal (municipal theatre)

Architect Ramos de Azevedo mimic the municipal theatre of São Paulo after the Paris Opéra, which draw an eclectic mix of Art Nouveau and the themes of Renaissance Italy. Almost immediately after it was completed in 1911, it became a major city attraction. This enhanced status in 1922, when it was home to an important event that revolutionized the arts in Brazil. The week of Modern Art introduces and highlights the artist's iconic Modernist movement of Brazil, celebrates the names including the painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Menotti Del Picchia, and; The Composer Heitor Villa-lobos; Author Mário de Andrade; And sculptor Victor Brecheret.

The Centre performing arts performances in South America, the theatre has hosted performances by singers, dancers, musicians, and artists in the world including Carla Fracci, Rudolf Nureyev, Titta Ruffo, Enrico Caruso, Maria Callas, Arturo Toscanini, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The building was completely restored to its original grandeur and opened in 1991. This House is home to the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, the Coral Lírico (Lyric Choir), and City Ballet of São Paulo.

3. Parque do Ibirapuera (Ibirapuera Park)

Ibirapuera Park laid out by landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, with buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer. The vast green space with monuments, museums, playgrounds, parks, trails, lakes, and the show is a recreational paradise for people in São Paulo, as well as a showcase of modern architecture and culture. Commemorating the pioneer from Sao Paulo who opened the interior of Brazil, the monument was the work of magnificent Bandeiras sculptor Victor Brecheret, Brazil with heroic figures are impressive. An obelisk commemorating those who died in 1932 in the struggle for a new Constitution.

Auditório Ibirapuera, ultra modern music hall designed by Oscar Niemeyer, considered one of the best concert venues of São Paulo. Museu da Aeronáutica e do Folclore, Museum of Folk Art and Aeronautics, featuring model aircraft flying and equipment on the ground floor, with almost 20,000 exhibition devoted to folk art and traditions from all over Brazil fill the remaining floors. Museu Afro-Brazil celebrate great contributions to Afro-Brazil and their social and cultural history.

4. Museu de Arte Contemporânea (Museum of contemporary art)

In the Parque Ibirapuera, Pavilhão da Goya de Artes, designed by Oscar Niemeyer and completed in 1957, it became the home of the Museum of contemporary art is very good along with the exhibition and special performances. The Museum more than 8,000 fruit representing various schools of art, ranging from Picasso, Modigliani, Léger to the leading painters and the Brazilian Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Portinari, Di Cavalcanti and. Among the collections of Western art of the twentieth century in Latin America, the museum also displays works by Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, and Joan Miró. The Sculpture Garden designed by Roberto Burle Marx and featuring 30 works great in outdoor environments.

5. Parque da Independància and the Museu Paulista

In the District of Ipiranga in São Paulo, traversed by flows in addition to Brazil's independence was proclaimed by Prince Pedro, Freedom Park commemorating the events of 1822 that. Facing formal garden of roses, topiaries, and fountain were inspired by those at Versailles, was the Museu Paulista, known as Museu do Ipiranga. The architect Tommaso Gaudenzio Bezzi, Italy, creating an eclectic design modelled on Italy, Neoclassicism reminiscent of Renaissance palaces. In it there is a large collection of decorative arts, costumes, paintings, and furniture of the Imperial Period.

6. Sé (Cathedral)

Neo-Gothic Cathedral built on the site of the previous Cathedral and take from 1913 until 1967 to complete. The building is interrupted by the two world wars, which makes it difficult to get the mosaics and other decorative elements are from Italy. It was consecrated in 1954, the anniversary of 400 years of the founding of São Paulo. On top of the façade is a statue of the old testament prophets and disciples of Christ. Although part of the Church is neo-Gothic, but was closed by the Renaissance-style dome. The Interior has some interesting features, including the 10,000 pipes organ and stained glass Windows depicting the history of Catholicism in Brazil. Be sure to pay attention to the capital is the city of columns, carved to represent the flora of Brazil (a branch of coffee and pineapple) and fauna, including the armadillo. You can visit the crypt under the main church to see marble statues and tombs. The Cathedral is located in the historical centre of São Paulo, and is a good place to start a tour of the old city.

7. College Courtyard

The square is known page College, immediately north from the Cathedral Square and the Cathedral, is the original core of São Paulo. Here, Manuel de Nóbrega and José de Anchieta founded the College of the Society of Jesus, a place to live and study centre for the Jesuits, and here on January 25, 1554, the first mass was celebrated in the settlement. Plaza draws now occupied by the Museum of history, museum of sacred art, and the chapel of Anchieta. All that remains of the 16th-century building is the door and the expanse of clay wall. At the children's museum is a pleasant Café.

8. The monastery of St Benedict (Benedictine)

The Benedictine monastery and Church Are founded in the late 16th century, but the date when the Church was only 1910-22. Don't discount for origin or modern exterior somewhat austere, inside is rich in painted and includes statues of 17th-century St. Benedict and St. Scholastica carved by Agostinho de Jesus. A number of other famous Benedictine artists contributed to the decoration of the monastery. Also notable are some impressive stained glass, the image of the Virgin in robes set with pearls, and dating to 1777 crusade. This is active, and the brotherhood of Monks accompany mass Gregorian chant with the morning. Stop shop at the Abbey to buy pastries, breads, and chocolate made by the brothers.

9. Our Lady of Light

Tiradentes Avenue, which skirts the Parque da Luz, is the monastery and the Church of Our Lady of Light, a typical example of traditional architecture of São Paulo: regardless of the age of their latest enough-they Are constructed in the 18th century – they are built entirely of clay. Monastery of our Lady of Light is now a House Museum of Sacred Art, which has a large collection of about 11,000 items, including statues, images, altarpieces, and furniture from the 16th through the 19th century. Also in Tiradentes Square is the Pinacoteca do Estado, State Picture Gallery, the oldest museum in Sao Paulo. It contains approximately 2,500 pictures, drawings, and prints by artists, especially Brazil.
 
9. Our Lady of Light

Tiradentes Avenue, which skirts the Parque da Luz, is the monastery and the Church of Our Lady of Light, a typical example of traditional architecture of São Paulo: regardless of the age of their latest enough-they Are constructed in the 18th century – they are built entirely of clay. Monastery of our Lady of Light is now a House Museum of Sacred Art, which has a large collection of about 11,000 items, including statues, images, altarpieces, and furniture from the 16th through the 19th century. Also in Tiradentes Square is the Pinacoteca do Estado, State Picture Gallery, the oldest museum in Sao Paulo. It contains approximately 2,500 pictures, drawings, and prints by artists, especially Brazil.
 
10. Largo de São Francisco

To the West of the Cathedral and College Courtyard, Largo de São Francisco is a street in the center of town named for the monastery complex que faced. The Church of St. Francisco de Assis, the Church of St. Francis, built in 1644 and is one of the oldest churches in the city. in based on their obvious period of que in Portugal, with a cheerful, airy and rich Golden flourish. It was restored after a fire in 1870 and again recently. Not only neighbors of the Church of the third order of San Francisco, the third (lay) Franciscan, built 1676-1791 and serious shows that age is closed to visitors. The third building in the complex, the Franciscan monastery, has been occupied since the year 1828 by the Faculty of law of the University of São Paulo. The neighborhood is a little run down and is not a place to visit in the evenings.

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