Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in São Paulo, Brazil

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God is an international Evangelical Neo-charismatic Christian denomination with its headquarters at the Temple of Solomon in São Paulo, Brazil. The church was founded in 1977 in Rio de Janeiro by Bishop Edir Macedo, who is the owner of the multi-billion television company RecordTV.

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Largo de Santa Cecília is located in the district of the central region of the city of São Paulo. It is surrounded by Rua das Palmeiras, where, in continuation, Sebastião Pereira, Helvetia, Ana Cintra and Amaral Gurgel streets begin.

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Luiz Gama is a monument by Yolando Mallozzi, located in Largo do Arouche. The creation date is November 22, 1931. The work was produced with granite, bronze and concrete and portrays Luiz Gama.

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Praça da República is a park and public square in the República neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil. The park covers several city blocks between Rua Pedro Américo, Rua Vinte e Quatro de Maio, Avenida Ipiranga, and Avenida São João in the historic center of the city. Praça da República had many names before 1889, including Largo dos Curros, Largo da Palha, Praça das Milícias, Largo Sete de Abril, and Praça 15 de Novembro.

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Casa Caetano de Campos, located in São Paulo, is considered one of the milestones in the process of renewing education in Brazil. Inaugurated on August 2, 1894 during a period of great investments in the education sector, the building was developed to host the First Normal School of the Capital, which became known as the Caetano de Campos Normal School in honor of the doctor and professor Antônio Caetano de Campos, director of the institution in the period in which the reform of São Paulo education took place. In addition, in 1934, it functioned as a support for the implementation of the University of São Paulo (USP) and housed for a time the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters.

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Edifício Itália is a 165 m (541 ft) tall 46-story skyscraper located in the República district, Central Zone of São Paulo, Brazil. Built from 1956 to 1965, it has a rooftop observation deck, open for tourists.

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Largo do Paiçandu is an area of the República district, in the central area of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It was named in 1865 after the Siege of Paysandu. Currently, it It is located within a quadrilateral formed by São João, Conselheiro Crispiniano, Rio Branco and Dom José de Barros streets. At the end of the 19th century, it was an important circus zone in the city.

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of São Paulo, also known as Martin Luther Church, is one of the headquarters of the Southeast Synod of the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil, located near the Largo do Paiçandu, in the historic center of São Paulo. The temple was founded on December 25, 1908, being one of the main meeting places of the German community in the first half of the twentieth century.

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The Basilica of the Most Blessed Sacrament is a Catholic basilica located at the corner of Casper Libero Avenue and Santa Ifigenia Street, in the district of the same name in the city of Sao Paulo in the south of Brazil. The Santa Ifigenia viaduct ends in front of the church.

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Mirante do Vale Building, commonly called Mirante do Vale, is a 170-metre (558 ft) office skyscraper located in São Paulo, Brazil, in the area of Downtown São Paulo and Vale do Anhangabaú. Constructed from 1959 to 1966, it was the tallest building in São Paulo for 54 years until 2022 when it was surpassed by Platina 220. Mirante do Vale was also the tallest in Brazil until 2014 when it was surpassed by Millennium Palace in Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina.

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The Santa Ifigênia Viaduct is located in the center of the Brazilian city of São Paulo. The route starts at Largo São Bento, next to the São Bento metro station, and finishes in front of the Church of St. Efigenia, connecting two of the city's historic landmarks. It is used exclusively by pedestrians.

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The Martinelli Building, with 28 floors, is the first skyscraper built in Brazil. Located in São Paulo, it is 105 meters tall.

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The Altino Arantes Building, also known as the Banespa Building and most popularly by Banespão, is an important Art Deco skyscraper located in São Paulo, Brazil.

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The building of the former Bank of São Paulo is a listed monument located in the center of the city of São Paulo. Located at Praça Antônio Prado number 9 and Rua 15 de Novembro number 347, it was officially listed by CONDEPHAAT in 2003 for its historical-architectural importance for the city of São Paulo.

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The Sampaio Moreira Building is located at 346, Líbero Badaró street, in the central region of São Paulo. With twelve floors and 50 metres (160 ft) high, the building was named Sampaio Moreira after its owner José de Sampaio Moreira (1866–1943), a merchant who the architect Christiano Stockler convinced in 1920 to make the building that would complete the Anhangabaú Park monument, which was finished four years later.

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The Santo Antônio Church is a Catholic temple located in the center of the city of São Paulo (Brazil), in Praça do Patriarca, near the Viaduto do Chá. The Church is a historical heritage of the state, in addition to also being considered the oldest remaining church in the city, founded in the last decades of the sixteenth century - as attested by the first documentary records of its existence, dated 1592. In the seventeenth century, it housed the Franciscan Order, and in the eighteenth century it was subordinated to the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary of the White Men. It has undergone several renovations and interventions over the last four centuries, especially in its façade, reopened in an eclectic style in 1919.

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Viaduto do Chá is a viaduct of São Paulo, Brazil. It was the first viaduct built in the city, and was instigated by Jules Martin, a French immigrant to the city. The 240-metre (790 ft) span crosses the Vale do Anhangabaú. Originally conceived in 1877, construction started in 1888 before being stopped one month later by a court case brought by local residents. Construction resumed in 1889, and the iron bridge was completed in 1892. The original viaduct was replaced in 1938 with a new concrete span. It often appears in TV interviews, as well as films and telenovelas set in São Paulo.

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The Municipal Theater of São Paulo is a Brazilian theater located in the city of São Paulo, designed by architects Ramos de Azevedo, Claudio Rossi and Domiziano Rossi in the eclectic architectural style, inspired by the Paris Opera and inaugurated in 1911. It is one of the city's postcards, located in Praça Ramos de Azevedo, also considered one of the most important theaters in the country. Built to meet the desire of the São Paulo elite of the time, who wanted the city to be up to the great cultural centers.

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The Ramos de Azevedo Square is located in the República district, in the center of the Brazilian city of São Paulo, and is famous for being home to the Municipal Theater. It was created in 1911, after the theater's inauguration, under the name Esplanada do Theatro. It was renamed in 1928, after the death of the architect Ramos de Azevedo.

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Vale do Anhangabaú is a region in the city center of São Paulo, located between the viaducts do Chá and Santa Ifigênia. It is a public space commonly characterized as park, where events have traditionally been organized, such as public demonstrations, political rallies, presentations and popular shows. It is considered the point that separates the Old City Center from the New City Center.

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Praça da Bandeira is a street located in the district of República, in the center of the municipality of São Paulo. It is an association between Largo da Bixiga and Largo do Piques. Until the 1960s, it was a public space with gardens. Today, almost the entire area is cut by avenues, viaducts and walkways, also having a municipal bus terminal that serves several regions of the city.

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The Church and Convent of Saint Francis was a religious institution installed in the town of São Paulo during colonial Brazil. In the 19th century, the convent was converted into a Law School. The Church of the Wounds of the Seraphic Father Saint Francis, built by the Secular Franciscan Order, is next to it.

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The Church of St. Francis of Assisi is a temple of the Catholic Church located in Largo de São Francisco, in the historic center of São Paulo, Brazil.

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The Tereza Toledo Lara Palace is a building listed by the historical heritage, located at 22 of Quintino Bocaiuva Street, with sides to the streets right and José Bonifácio in downtown São Paulo, Brazil. It was designed by Augusto Fried, German architect, who did several works in the city of São Paulo. The perimeter became known as "triangle", where the city begins. It is a common mistake to find references to heritage as a lara palace, another building located at 185 Álvares Penteado Street. The building has three floors: ground floor, two upper floors and the basement. Currently, on the ground floor we find several commercial establishments and on the upper floor a musical instrument store. The palace has an eclectic language, producing a composition of the meeting of Renaissance, Baroque, Mannerist and Neoclassical styles. Titled as "The Musical Corner of São Paulo", was once the matrix of Radio Record and home of numerous musical instrument stores, including Casa Bevilacqua and Editora Brothers Vitalle.

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The Triangle Building is a commercial building located in the center of São Paulo, at Rua José Bonifácio, 24, at the intersection with Rua Quintino Bocaiúva, near Praça da Sé. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated in 1955, the building is one of the creations of the satellite office that the architect from Rio de Janeiro maintained in São Paulo in the 1950s, under the command of Carlos Lemos.

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The Guinle Building, a seven-story art nouveau construction, is considered the first skyscraper in the city of São Paulo, as it broke with the regularity of the city. Located on Rua Direita, in the center of the capital of São Paulo, the building is listed by Conpresp.

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Immortal Glory of the Founders of São Paulo is a monument located in São Paulo, created by Amedeo Zani and inaugurated in 1925. It is located in the Pátio do Colégio.

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The Anchieta Museum is located in the Pátio do Colégio square, in downtown São Paulo, which is considered a place of collective memory for São Paulo and national education, having a collection of excellence for the history of education.

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The Secretariat of Justice and Citizenship of the State of São Paulo has been located at Palácio Campos Elíseos, at Rua Guaianases, 1.024, central region of São Paulo, since September 2024. Previously, it occupied buildings 148 and 184, in Largo Pátio do Colégio, in the Sé region. These buildings were designed by the São Paulo engineer and architect Francisco de Paula Ramos de Azevedo (1851-1928), between 1869 and 1888, to originally occupy the Secretariat of Agriculture and the Secretariat of Finance and Treasury.

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Casa Número Um is a historic residence located in the center of the city of São Paulo, Brazil, so known for being located at nº 1 of the old Rua do Carmo, current 136-B of Rua Roberto Simonsen. House No. 1 is a three-story townhouse built where there was a rammed earth house, whose first owner, according to records from 1689, was Francisco Dias, and was later sold to the bandeirante Gaspar de Godoy Moreira. In 1855 it was transformed into the Ateneu Paulistano school and, with the death of its last director, it was sold to Major Benedito Antônio da Silva, responsible for the masonry construction, which is the case until today.

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Praça da Sé is a public space in São Paulo, Brazil. Considered as the city's central point, it is the point from where the distance of all roads passing through São Paulo are counted. The square was the location of many historical events in São Paulo's history, most notably during the Diretas Já movement. The name originates from the episcopal see of the city, the São Paulo Cathedral.

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Marco Zero is a geographic monument in downtown São Paulo. In 1934, the marble milestone was installed in front of the São Paulo Cathedral on the Praça da Sé to symbolize the center of the city. The sculpture is a both a tourist attraction and a central point of reference for street numbers in the city. Marco Zero has been registered for historic preservation since 2007.

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The Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady Assumption and Saint Paul, also known as the See Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo, Brazil. Its current and seventh metropolitan archbishop is Dom Odilo Pedro Cardinal Scherer, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI on March 21, 2007, and installed on April 29 of the same year. The existing cathedral's construction, in a Gothic revival style, began in 1913 and ended four decades later. It was ready for its dedication on the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the then humble villa of São Paulo by Chief or Cacique Tibiriçá and the Jesuit priests Manuel da Nóbrega and José de Anchieta. Despite its Renaissance-style dome, the São Paulo Metropolitan Cathedral is considered by some to be the fourth largest neo-Gothic cathedral in the world.

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Praça Doutor João Mendes, better known as Praça João Mendes, is a square located in the center of the municipality of São Paulo, whose name is a tribute to the jurist João Mendes de Almeida.

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The São Gonçalo Church is a Catholic temple located in Dr. João Mendes Square, in the center of the city of São Paulo, headquarters of the Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption and São Paulo and the Japanese-Brazilian Personal Parish São Gonçalo.

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The Chapel of the Child Jesus and Saint Lucy is a Catholic religious temple located at Rua Tabatinguera, number 104, in the Sé neighborhood, in the center of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. In neo-Gothic style, typical of most buildings erected in Brazil at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the church inaugurated on December 13, 1901, the date of commemoration of the patron saint's feast, was built by the Italian architect Domenico Delpiano, one of the seven Salesian priests who arrived in Brazil in 1883, and has ornamental works by the Florentine painter Orestes Sercelli. considered a reference when it comes to artistic manifestations in churches.

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Igreja da Ordem Terceira do Carmo also known as the Capela da Venerável Ordem Terceira do Carmo or the Capela dos Terceiros do Carmo, is located in São Paulo, Brazil. It was founded in the second half of the 17th century by a group of laypeople as an adjacent chapel to the Convento do Carmo de São Paulo, which opened in 1592 and was demolished in 1928.

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The Church of Our Lady of the Good Death or Church of the Good Death of the Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic temple located in the center of the city of São Paulo. It is located at Rua do Carmo, 202, in the vicinity of Praça da Sé. [1]

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Parque Dom Pedro II is a park located in the Sé neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil. It lies on the border between the Historic Center of São Paulo and the Brás neighborhood.

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The Beco do Pinto, also known as Beco do Colégio, is a passage located between the Casa Número Um and Solar da Marquesa de Santos in the center of São Paulo. It links the streets Roberto Simonsen and Bitterncourt Rodrigues. In Brazil's colonial times, it had the function of allowing the transit of people and animals between the Largo da Sé and the meadow of the Tamanduateí River. Today, under the administration of Casa da Imagem, it houses projects developed for the space by contemporary artists. The passage has been integrated as part of the Museu da Cidade de São Paulo.

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The Catavento Museum is an interactive museum, inaugurated in 2009. It is dedicated to science and its dissemination, and is located in the Palácio das Indústrias, in São Paulo, Brazil. The 12,000 square meter space is divided into 4 sections: "Universo" ("Universe"),"Vida" ("Life"), "Engenho" ("Ingenuity") and "Sociedade" ("Society") and has more than 250 installations. Aimed at young audiences, it was founded by the state secretariats of culture and education, with an investment of 20 million reais after 14 months of construction.

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