Displays artifacts from Brazil’s age of internal exploration.

A pedestrian shopping street that leads to the baroque Municipal Theatre and one of the city’s symbols the Viaduto do Cha.

Skyscraper-lined Avenida Paulista was the street where coffee barons lived and now is the commercial center of the city. All main banks have a branch at Avenida Paulista. You will find a lot of restaurants and fast foods. It is worth to look at the parallel and perpendicular streets next to the avenue to find more restaurants, bookstores, fine hotels and shops.

In the avenue you will find the MASP (Sao Paulo Museum of Art) and (close to its end) the Casa das Rosas (House of Roses) where usually there are art expositions. Next to Casa das Rosas you will also find the Shpping Center Paulista, but its car parking is very small and difficult to find a vacancy.

All the avenue is well served with buses and a subway (metro) line that runs the entire street with several stations.

In the same building as the Bienale, but open all year round.

Locally known as USP (Universidade de Sao Paulo) , it is the largest university in Brazil. Most of the buildings have expositions and little museums related to the subject studied. There are also a museum of contemporary art (MAC, Museu de Arte Contemporanea) and  an antropology museum.

The university campus is a large green area with a lot of birds including owls and parrots and from the Owl's Hill (in portuguese, Morro da Coruja)  on the Institute of Physics it is possible to have an interesting view of the city.

Locally known as MASP (Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo) it’s a must-see with a fine collection of Portinaris and one of the largest compilations of impressionist paintings in the world.

On Sundays, in the space below the main building,  there is an open fair of antiquities and gadgets where you can find old stamps, masks, clothes and a large variety of crafts.

The Sacred Art Museum near the Tiradentes subway stop is claimed to be the best on the subject in Brazil.

Located near the place where Pedro I declared independence from Portugal in 1822.

One of the most famous parks of Sao Paulo and a favorite weekend program for all people. lucerito: