Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in São Paulo, Brazil

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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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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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 Church of Our Lady of the Good Death or Church of the Good Death of the Virgin Mary is a 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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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 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 of the buildings erected in Brazil at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the church inaugurated on December 13, 1901, the date of commemoration of the feast of the patron saint, 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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Praça Doutor João Mendes, better known as Praça João Mendes, is a square located in the center of the city of São Paulo, whose name is a tribute to the jurist João Mendes de Almeida.

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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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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 São Gonçalo Church is a Catholic temple located in Praça Dr. João Mendes, 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 of São Gonçalo.

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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 house 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 pioneer 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, and remains so until today.

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The Anchieta Museum is located in the square of Pátio do Colégio, in the center of 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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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 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 to the city of São Paulo.

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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 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 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 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 São Francisco de Assis is a temple of the Roman Catholic Church located in Largo de São Francisco, in the historic center of São Paulo, Brazil.

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The Santo Antônio Church is a Catholic temple located in the center of the city of São Paulo (Brazil), in the Patriarch Square, near the Viaduto do Chá. The Church is a historical heritage of the state, in addition to 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, reinaugurated in an eclectic style in 1919.

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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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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 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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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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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 physician 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 served as a support for the implementation of the University of São Paulo (USP) and hosted the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters for a time.

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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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The Edifício Copan, or just Copan, is one of the most important and emblematic buildings in the city of São Paulo, located at number 200 Avenida Ipiranga, in the city center, and was inaugurated in 1966. It is one of the symbols of modern Brazilian architecture, designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer with structural design by engineer Joaquim Cardozo, aiming to celebrate the Fourth Centenary of the city of São Paulo. The work, however, only began in 1957, with some changes and carried out with the help of Carlos Lemos.

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

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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 continuity, Sebastião Pereira, Helvetia, Ana Cintra and Amaral Gurgel streets begin.

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The Monument to the Duke of Caxias is a platinum bronze statue on a granite pedestal depicting the battles of the Duke of Caxias. Located in the city of São Paulo, the monument is 48 meters high and is the second largest equestrian memorial in the world.

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