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TOURISM
& TRAVEL
SAO PAULO
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São
Paulo is a city with the multiple faces, it shelters more
group ethnic than any other agglomeration of the area. Its
vast industrial park, is one of largest world.
The old town of São Paulo the original center of São
Paulo consists today of a ventilated esplanade and a handle
of constructions to the bleached walls, Pátio C Colégio.
It is in this place that the Jesuits of Anchieta and Manuel
da Nóbrega founded the mission of São Paulo
de Piratininga in 1554.
One finds there Put it of Anchieta is a museum devoted to
the history of the foundation of the city, and exposes objects
of the everyday life of the first colonists. Until in the
19 3rd century old middle, this district, which included/understood
only one dozen streets, formed with him only the "city"
of São Paulo.
Foreign districts:
The district of Liberdade kept intact its Japanese origins,
so much so that the panels of the streets carry Japanese indications.
Bela Vista, commonly called Bixiga, is the Italian district
today.
Bom Retiro preserved many vestiges of its Arab and Lebanese
past. One sees Jewish , Moslem and Christian merchants there
siroter their coffee and deviser peacefully as if the tensions
had never existed in the Middle East.
The park and the museums attract each day a great number of
visitors. São Paulo also has one of largest the zoo
of the world, located in Parks Estadual das Fontas C Ipiranga.
With its 3.500 specimens which evolve/move in a natural environment
and its tropical birds, Jardim zoológico attracts each
year nearly 2.500.000 visitors.
Lbe surroundings of São Paulo
Campos C Jordão, a city located at 1700m of altitude,
is the station à.la.mode of São Paulo. In spite
of its relative distance of metropolis (160 km), its small
country cottages, its climate vigorous attract many visitors.
More close to São Paulo, to 60 km the village of Paranapiacaba
,located at 800 m of altitude is, where time appears to have
stopped. An old blown train climbs until the top of the mountain,
from where one discovers a spectacular sight on the plains
of Santos.
The small town ofAtibaia,à 820m, is the capital of
fishings and the cutters. Dozen telescopes and some observatories
miniature elected residence with Atibaia, because of the purity
of the air favourable with the study of the skies.
Ubatuba is a seaside resort very à.la.mode, famous
for the purity of its floods, on 85 km of coast, more than
70 beaches of which much remains deserted because of their
still difficult accesses.
Excursions in boat make it possible to visit the ruins da
the Anchieta prison and the vestiges of plantation Lagoinha
the sugar.
Caraguatatuba to 190 km of São Paulo, account as many
beaches as its neighbor but it is less richly provided in
historical attractions.
São Sebastião, pleasant a small historical city,
from which the ferries for Ilha Bela leave. Its tropical forest,
its rocks, its cascades and its beaches deserted do of it
one of the most wild islands and most picturesque of the coast.
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