Category: São Paulo

The sandy soil of Santos made ​​several buildings bordering the beach became ”crooked”, especially in neighborhoods Boqueirao, Embaré and Aparecida. The city has been the setting of several attractions of Rede Globo Channel, as the soap-opera ”Deus nos acuda” and the mini-series ”Um so coracao” and ”JK”. The motto of the city is ” Patriam [...]

The Streetcar Tour is a true journey into the past, about 50 minutes long and going through fifty scenic,  historical and cultural spots, in a path of 5 km with an accompanying tour guide.  The streetcar itself is an attraction, built in the early twentieth century with electric motor Westinhouse, wooden benches surrounded by old [...]

Santos has the largest port in Latin America, and has great importance for exports and imports of  the whole Brazil. The port is considered the one with most modern structure of the country and holds the thirty-fifth position in the world ranking of containerized cargo handling. The city is the sixteenth richest  of Brazil, with [...]

In 1502, an expedition of Amerigo Vespucci to recognize the Brazilian coast has undergone an island known by the natives as ”’Guaiaó” and decided to give the island the name of the saint’s day: ”Sao Vicente”. Almost 30 years later, Martim Afonso de Souza, sent by the King of Portugal to take over territory found [...]

The pro football team of the city is the Barretos Esporte Clube, founded in 1960, October, 28. The team, known as ”Touro do Vale” has the Antonio Gomes Martins Stadium, with capacity for 13 996 people to host the games. The motto of the city is ”Frates Sumus omnes” (”We are all brothers” in Latin). [...]

At Centenario da Abolicao Avenue, there is the ”Regiao dos Lagos”: three ornamental lakes supplied  by the  Aleixo Stream that have around them wide sidewalks and bike paths for the practice of sports. The Primavera Square is considered the most beautiful in city due to its unique landscape project and to its atmosphere of tranquility. [...]

The highlights of the industry are: dairy products, garments, rubber, footwear, leather, cutlery, citrus juices and artifacts in general, besides the refrigerating companies JBS-Friboi, Minerva and Dawn Farms that have international relevance. The main farming products are: sugarcane (there are six big mills in the region), orange and soy. Barretos also has two industrial districts.

Joao Jose de Carvalho and Francisco Antonio Diniz, from Minas Gerais, were the first explorers of the region between the rivers Grande, Pardo and Cachoeirinha. Carvalho founded the farm Palmeiras and Junqueira took over the land near the banks of the Pardo River, creating the farm Pitangueiras. In 1831, Francisco Barreto and his brother took [...]

The motto of the city is ”Genti meae paulistae fidelis” (”Loyal to my paulista flock” in Latin). The nicname of Franca is ”Capital of men’s shoes”. The basketball team of the city is the one which won the largest number of titles in the history of Brazilian basketball. Arnaldo de Castro Nogueira (radio broadcaster and [...]

The Municipal Historical Museum was created in 1957, September, 13. Its collection has aproximately four thousand objects. The museum also has a library to support the regional research  whose file consists of printed and manuscript sources of the Chamber and City Hall of Franca. On Nossa Senhora da Conceicao Square there is a sun clock [...]

In the eighteenth century, people from Minas Gerais that came from mining  and livestock areas remained in the region of the current territory of Franca  dedicating especially to creation of cattle. With the course of time, the place was gaining commercial importance due to its geographical position. The agricultural south and the rancher central region [...]

Local agriculture stands out as one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world, called Alta Mogiana, which produces coffee characterized by the taste of chocolate. Franca is the largest manufacturer of footwear in all Latin America, being world reference in aspects such as comfort, quality, technology and design.

”Jundiai” is a native name and means ”Jundia River” (Jundia is a specie of fish). The motto of the city is ”Etiam per me Brasilia Magna” (”Also thanks to me, Brazil has become great” in Latin). Havana (Cuba), Iwakuni (Japan), Padua (Italy), Trenton (USA) and Taian (China) are ‘’sister-cities” of Jundiai. The population is 370 [...]

The Corupira Park, also known as Trabalhador Park occupies area of 225 000 square meters, 140 000 square meters of native forest. Inaugurated in 1979, the park has options of entertaining for all family: dozens of kiosks with barbecue,  pavilions where popular shows are made,  little train, sound system, picnic areas, in addition to slides, [...]

Known for producing strawberry and grape, Jundiai has 27 000 h of cultivated area. The municipality is also a center of logistics companies and has an industrial park with more than five hundred companies, such as: Coca-Cola, Cereser, IBG, Femsa, Akzo Nobel, Sadia, Ambev, Siemens, Parmalat, Itautec, Sifco, Mahle and Deca. The city stands on [...]

The region of Jundiai remained inhabited only by natives until the early seventeenth century. The settlement began near the Jundiai River with the arrival of Rafael de Oliveira, his wife and children in 1615, naming the thorp ”Nossa Senhora do Desterro de Jundiai”. The site flourished from the beginning of its formation by virtue of [...]

Sao Paulo is the sixth largest city in the world. The lower temperature officially registered in the city was 28.22 F in 1955 and the higher temperature registered was 95.54 F in 1985. The most famous nickname of the city is ”Drizzle land”. The motto of Sao Paulo is ”Non dvcor dvco” (”I am not [...]

Sao Paulo is more a city of business tourism than recreational tourism. The infrastructure for events makes the city hosts 120 of the 160 major trade fairs in country, like Salao do Automovel, Couromoda and Fashion Week. Sao Paulo has many parks, but the most frequented and complete certainly is Ibirapuera Park, which has: bicycle [...]

Sao Paulo is the city with largest GDP in Brazil and the tenth largest in the world. It also has the sixth largest number of billionaires in the world. For a long time, the industry was an economic activity very present in the city but in the last three decades, the municipality has increasingly assumed [...]

The thorp of Sao Paulo de Piratininga began in 1554, January, 25 with the construction of a Jesuit college by twelve priests in the top of a hill between the Anhangabau and Tamanduatei Rivers. The college was done in order to evangelize the natives who lived in the region  of Piratininga Plateau and was named [...]

The largest city in Brazil, Sao Paulo is one of 27 units of Brazil. It is located in the south of the Southeast and is limited to the states of Minas Gerais (N and NE), Rio de Janeiro (L), Paraná (SO) and Mato Grosso do Sul (O), and the Atlantic Ocean (SE). It is divided [...]