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A rose garden or rosarium is a garden or park, often open to the public, used to present and grow various types of garden roses, and sometimes rose species. Designs vary tremendously and roses may be displayed alongside other plants or grouped by individual variety, colour or class in rose beds. Technically it is a specialized type of shrub garden, but normally treated as a type of flower garden, if only because its origins in Europe go back to at least the Middle Ages in Europe, when roses were effectively the largest and most popular flowers, already existing in numerous garden cultivars.
Largo da Batata is a public square located in the district of Pinheiros, in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. It is located at the confluence of Brigadeiro Faria Lima Avenue and the streets Pinheiros, Teodoro Sampaio, Cardeal Arcoverde, Baltazar Carrasco, Martim Carrasco, Chopin Tavares de Lima and Fernão Dias.
Ibirapuera Park is an urban park in São Paulo. It comprises 158 hectares between Av. República do Líbano, Av. Pedro Alvares Cabral, and Av. IV Centenário, and is the most visited park in South America, with 14.4 million visits in 2017.
The Mário Pimenta Camargo Municipal Park, or People's Park, was inaugurated on 28 September 2008, in the district of Itaim Bibi, in the district of Chácara Itaim, in São Paulo, Brazil. The People's Park is referred to as the "Parque do Povo" in Portuguese.
5. Oca
The Lucas Nogueira Garcez Pavilion, popularly known as Oca, is an exhibition pavilion located in Ibirapuera Park, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It was designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1951 to compose the original architectural ensemble of Ibirapuera Park, built to commemorate the IV Centennial of the City of São Paulo, which took place in 1954.
6. Casa da Imagem
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.
7. Fraternitas São Francisco de Assis
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet, and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty, he became a beggar and itinerant preacher.
8. Santos FC Business Center
Santos Futebol Clube is a Brazilian sports club based in Vila Belmiro, a bairro in the city of Santos. It is also the team with the most goals in football history. It plays in the Campeonato Paulista, the state of São Paulo's premier state league, as well as the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, the second tier of the Brazilian football league system, after getting relegated in the 2023 season for the first time in the club's history.
9. Instituto Social Nossa Senhora de Fátima
Our Lady of Fátima is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal. The three children were Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto. José Alves Correia da Silva, Bishop of Leiria, declared the events worthy of belief on 13 October 1930.
10. Circo Escola Grajaú
A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclists as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists. The term circus also describes the field of performance, training and community which has followed various formats through its 250-year modern history. Although not the inventor of the medium, Newcastle-under-Lyme born Philip Astley is credited as the father of the modern circus.
11. Sua consulta
A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practice. Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, underlying diseases, and their treatment, which is the science of medicine, and a decent competence in its applied practice, which is the art or craft of the profession.
12. Lar Nossa Senhora Aparecida
An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The parents may be deceased, absent, or abusive. There may be substance abuse or mental illness in the biological home, or the parent may simply be unwilling to care for the child. The legal responsibility for the support of abandoned children differs from country to country, and within countries. Government-run orphanages have been phased out in most developed countries during the latter half of the 20th century but continue to operate in many other regions internationally. It is now generally accepted that orphanages are detrimental to the emotional wellbeing of children, and government support goes instead towards supporting the family unit.
13. Bar e Mercearia J. C. Zézito
A grocery store (AE), grocery shop (BE) or simply grocery is a foodservice retail store that primarily retails a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged. In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is a synonym for supermarket, and is not used to refer to other types of stores that sell groceries. In the UK, shops that sell food are distinguished as grocers or grocery shops
14. Telefone Público
A payphone is typically a coin-operated public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or in high-traffic public areas. Prepayment is required by inserting coins or telephone tokens, swiping a credit or debit card, or using a telephone card.
15. Imagem Nossa Senhora das Dores
Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows, and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which Mary, mother of Jesus, is referred to in relation to sorrows in life. As Mater Dolorosa, it is also a key subject for Marian art in the Catholic Church.
16. Padaria Jardim Iporanga
A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based baked goods made in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, doughnuts, bagels, pastries, and pies. Some retail bakeries are also categorized as cafés, serving coffee and tea to customers who wish to consume the baked goods on the premises. In some countries, a distinction is made between bakeries, which primarily sell breads, and pâtisseries, which primarily sell sweet baked goods.
17. Polícia Civil - 101º Distrito Policial
The Civil Police of the State of São Paulo (PCESP) is the Investigative Judicial Police of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, an organ of the public security system to which it is responsible, except for the specific competence of the Union, the activities of Judicial Police and Calculation ( investigation) of criminal offenses, except those of a military nature.
Wikipedia: Polícia Civil do Estado de São Paulo (PT), Website
18. São Paulo Museum of Art
The São Paulo Museum of Art is an art museum located on Paulista Avenue in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It is well known for its headquarters, a 1968 concrete and glass structure designed by Lina Bo Bardi, whose main body is supported by two lateral beams over a 74 metres (243 ft) freestanding space. It is considered a landmark of the city and a main symbol of modern Brazilian architecture.
19. Terra Country Interlagos
A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment. Nightclubs often have a bar and discothèque with a dance floor, laser lighting displays, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who mixes recorded music. Nightclubs tend to be smaller than live music venues like theatres and stadiums, with few or no seats for customers.
20. Vibra São Paulo
Vibra São Paulo is a music theatre in the Santo Amaro neighbourhood, city of São Paulo, Brazil. It opened in September 1999, with capacity for 7,000 people. Considered to be one of the largest indoor entertainment venues in Brazil and one of the largest in Latin America. The 60th anniversary of Miss Universe 2011 pageant was held on September 12 that year at the hall. It used to be called Credicard Hall in most of its history, but its name changed in October 2019 due to a naming rights partner. The theatre closed on March 31, 2021. On 1 April 2022, the reopening of the venue was announced under its new name Vibra São Paulo following an agreement between the new house manager, Opus Entertenimento, and the biofuel company Vibra Energia. The venue officially reopened in May.
21. Base Comunitária da Polícia Militar
The Polícia Militar do Estado de São Paulo is a military law enforcement agency of in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is the largest state police force in the country, with over 100,000 personnel in its ranks, in several battalions throughout the state as well as within the Greater São Paulo region which itself comprises 40 cities and towns.
22. São Paulo Cathedral
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.
23. Mirante do Vale
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.
24. Museu Paulista
The Museu Paulista of the University of São Paulo, commonly known as Museu do Ipiranga, is a Brazilian history museum located near the place where Emperor Pedro I proclaimed Brazil's independence on the banks of Ipiranga brook in the Southeast region of the city of São Paulo, then the "Caminho do Mar," or road to the seashore. It contains a huge collection of furniture, documents and historically relevant artwork, especially relating to the Brazilian Empire era.
25. Museu da Casa Brasileira
The Museu da Casa Brasileira (MCB), an institution of the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the State of São Paulo, dedicated itself until April 30, 2023 to issues of the Brazilian dwelling from the perspective of architecture and design. Over more than five decades of existence, it has become a national and international reference in these areas for promoting programs such as the MCB Design Award, a contest created in 1986 with the objective of encouraging Brazilian production in the segment, and the Casas do Brasil project, to rescue and preserve the memory of the diversity of living in Brazilians.
26. Edifício Itália
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.
27. Copan Building
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.
28. Praça Jardim Presidente
The city of São Paulo has several parks and environmental reserves. Between state and municipal parks, there are 106 areas spread throughout the cidade.Com all these parks The city of São Paulo has less than 12m² of green per inhabitant: below the recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).
29. Parque da Água Branca
Água Branca State Park is a park located in the district of Barra Funda, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The site has 136,765.41m², and is located on Avenida Francisco Matarazzo in the Água Branca neighborhood. Conceived by the Brazilian Rural Society (SRB), an entity representing Brazilian agriculture, the Park began to be formed in 1905 and was inaugurated on June 2, 1929 by the Secretary of Agriculture Dr. Fernando de Sousa Costa, responsible for providing new aspects to the animal industry, also creating the Department of Dairy Products of the Animal Industry. With the objective of hosting exhibitions and zootechnical tests, the park was created in a period when Água Branca Avenue had not even been paved. The park was listed in 1996 by Condephaat as cultural, historical, architectural, tourist, technological and landscape heritage of the state of São Paulo, and in 2004 by CONPRESP, for its historical, architectural and landscape-environmental value.
30. Igreja São Gonçalo
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.
31. Tietê Ecological Park
The Tietê Ecological Park is a park and an environmental protection area located in the floodplain of the Tietê River, under the administration of CPP - Coordination of Parks and Partnerships, inserted in the Secretariat of Environment, Infrastructure and Logistics (SEMIL), of the Government of the State of São Paulo. Also known as Núcleo Eng. Goulart.
32. Museu Anchieta
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.
33. EE Professor José Vieira de Moraes
The Department of Education of the State of São Paulo (SEDUC-SP) is the state agency responsible for matters related to the education network in the state of São Paulo. It is one of the 25 secretariats that make up the Government of the State of São Paulo.
Wikipedia: Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo (PT), Website
34. Independence or Death
The 1888 painting Independence or Death, also known as the Cry of Ipiranga is an oil on canvas painting by Pedro Américo, from 1888. It is the best known artwork representing the proclamation of the Brazilian independence.
35. Sé Square
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.
36. Guarda Civil Metropolitana
The Civil Guard of the State of São Paulo was a uniformed corporation created on October 22, 1926 by Carlos de Campos, President of the State of São Paulo to carry out the ostensible policing of the urban areas of the state, ensuring public safety and the personal and property safety of citizens following the pattern of the municipal guard created on the same date. Today it is considered the embryo of the Metropolitan Civil Guard of the state capital and of all the municipal guards of the cities of the interior.
Wikipedia: Guarda Civil do Estado de São Paulo (PT), Website
37. Estação Pinacoteca
The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo is one of the most important art museums in Brazil. It is housed in a 1900 building in Jardim da Luz, Downtown São Paulo, designed by Ramos de Azevedo and Domiziano Rossi to be the headquarters of the Lyceum of Arts and Crafts. It is the oldest art museum in São Paulo, founded on December 24, 1905, and established as a public state museum since 1911.
38. Parque da Juventude
The Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns Youth Park is a cultural, recreational and sports complex located in the North Zone of the city of São Paulo. In 2007, the third and final phase was completed. Its construction took place in the place where the old Carandiru Penitentiary Complex was located, a place historically marked by human rights violations, urban degradation and violence.
Wikipedia: Parque da Juventude Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns (PT), Website
39. Monumento à Independência
The Monument to the Independence of Brazil is a granite and bronze monument located in the Independence Park in São Paulo, Brazil. It is also known as the Ipiranga Monument or the Altar of the Fatherland. The monument is located on the banks of the Ipiranga Brook, on the historic site where prince regent Pedro proclaimed the independence of the country on 7 September 1822.
40. Praça da Bandeira
Praça da Bandeira is a street located in the district of República, in the center of the city 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 crossed by avenues, viaducts and footbridges, and also has a municipal bus terminal that serves several regions of the city.
41. Catedral Metropolitana Ortodoxa
The Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral of São Paulo, also known as the Orthodox Cathedral of São Paulo, is a cathedral of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, located at 1515 Vergueiro in Paraíso, Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil. Dedicated to Paul the Apostle, it is home to the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of São Paulo and All Brazil. It was constructed to serve the many Lebanese Brazilians of the Orthodox Christian faith who had been immigrating to Brazil since the late 19th century. It is one of the largest Eastern Orthodox cathedrals in the world, and a fine example of Byzantine Revival architecture.
42. Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation
The Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation is an art museum located in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Officially established in 1978, it is a not-for-profit private institution, legally declared as an organization of federal public interest. It was created by the Brazilian collector and philanthropist Ema Gordon Klabin (1907–1994), with the purpose of preserving and displaying her art collection, as well as promoting cultural, artistic and scientific activities. The foundation is headquartered in Ema's former house in Jardins district, specially designed by architect Alfredo Ernesto Becker in the 1950s to hold her collection. The house is surrounded by a 4,000 square meters garden projected by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.
Wikipedia: Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation (EN), Website
43. Museu Afro-Brasil
Museu Afro Brasil is a history, artistic and ethnographic museum dedicated to the research, preservation, and exhibition of objects and works related to the cultural sphere of black people in Brazil. It is a public institution held by the Secretariat for Culture of the São Paulo State and managed by the Museu Afro Brasil Association. The museum is located in Ibirapuera Park, a major urban park in São Paulo. The Manoel da Nóbrega Pavilion, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1959, houses the Museum. It holds around 6 thousands items and pieces including paintings, sculptures, photos, documents, and archives created between the 15th Century and the present day. The aggregation of pieces includes many works of the African and Afro-Brazilian cultural spheres, ranging from subjects and topics such as religion, labor, and art to the African Diaspora and slavery, whilst registering and affirming the historical trajectory and the African influences in the construction of the Brazilian society. The Museum also offers a diverse range of cultural and didactic activities, temporary expositions, and contains a theater and a specialized library.
44. Casa Bandeirista
The Casa Bandeirista do Itaim is an eighteenth-century building located at Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, nº 3477, in the Itaim Bibi neighborhood, in the city of São Paulo. The property was listed by CONDEPHAAT, in 1982, and by CONPRESP, in 1991. In 1997 the restoration project of the property was presented, but the works only began in June 2008. In 2019, the Casa Bandeirista Institute began to operate on site, which is a historical reference center led by a business group and a financial institution.
45. Polo Cultural e Esportivo Grande Otelo
The Polo Cultural e Esportivo Grande Otelo, commonly known as Anhembi Sambadrome, is a Sambadrome and one of the largest outdoor venues for major events in the city of São Paulo in Brazil. It opened in 1991, and has a capacity of 103,200 people. It hosts around 30 events per year, including the São Paulo carnival, Independence Day celebrations, and music events.
46. Evangelical Lutheran Church of São Paulo
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.
Wikipedia: Evangelical Lutheran Church of São Paulo (EN), Website
47. Vale do Anhangabaú
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.
48. Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo
The Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo is a contemporary art museum located in the main campus of the University of São Paulo, in São Paulo, Brazil, and in Ibirapuera Park, in the same city. It is one of the largest art museums in the country.
Wikipedia: Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo (EN), Website
49. Monument to the Bandeiras
Monument to the Bandeiras is a large-scale granite sculpture by the Italian-Brazilian sculptor Victor Brecheret (1894-1955) at the entrance of Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo, Brazil. It was commissioned by the government of São Paulo in 1921 and completed in 1954. It commemorates the 17th-century bandeiras, or settling expeditions into the interior of Brazil, and the bandeirantes that participated in them. The monument is huge and in a prominent location, making it an easily identifiable part of the landscape of São Paulo.
50. Teatro Oficina
Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona or simply Teatro Oficina, is a theater company based in the neighborhood of Bixiga, in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. It was founded in 1958 at the Law School of the University of São Paulo by Amir Haddad, José Celso Martinez Correa, Carlos Queiroz Telles and Ron Daniels.
51. Centro Católico de Evangelização Shalom - Missão Santo Amaro
Shalom Catholic Community is recognized by the Catholic Church as the International Private Association of the Faithful for what the Church today calls "New Communities." Being a community of the Catholic Church, the Shalom Community serves in its work through a consecrated life of its members.
52. Parque da Luz
Jardim da Luz is a public park near the Luz station and Avenida Tiradentes in the Bom Retiro district of São Paulo. The headquarters of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo is located in the southeastern corner of the park.
53. Museu de Geociências
The Museum of Geosciences of the Institute of Geosciences of the University of São Paulo is a museum located inside the University of São Paulo, more precisely on the Butantã campus, in the Armando de Salles Oliveira University City. Its collection is diversified and includes areas of geology, mineralogy and paleontology, and is open to the public. It is an auxiliary unit linked to the Institute of Geosciences of USP. Since 1991, the Museum has occupied an area of 550 m², located on the first floor of the main building of the Institute of Geosciences of USP, but it also has open spaces for other and larger exhibitions.
Wikipedia: Museu de Geociências do Instituto de Geociências da USP (PT)
54. Casa de Dona Yayá
Dona Yayá's house is a historic construction in the Bixiga region, in the Bela Vista neighborhood, in São Paulo, and is currently run by the Center for Cultural Preservation of the University of São Paulo. Built in the late nineteenth century, the house is a symbol of eclectic architecture of the central region of São Paulo, with characteristics that symbolize different periods of the history of the city of the last 100 years. Considered one of the last buildings of the farm belt that circumvented the city center in the twentieth century, the house today has characteristics attributed by four major reforms made by its five different owners over the years.
55. Chapel of the Afflicted
The Chapel of Our Lady of the Afflicted, popularly known as the Chapel of the Afflicted, is located on a small street in Liberdade, São Paulo between Rua Galvão Bueno and Rua da Glória, with access through Rua dos Estudantes and next to Estação Liberdade, where one of the few alleys still existing in São Paulo still remains. the Alley of the Afflicted. Inaugurated in 1775, a period in which it was customary for burial to take place inside churches, this open-air cemetery was reserved only for the burial of paupers, slaves who did not belong to the Brotherhood of the Rosary and for those condemned to death on the gallows, known as tortured.
56. Largo Santa Cecília
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.
57. Capela de São Miguel Paulista
The Church of São Miguel Paulista or Chapel of São Miguel Arcanjo, popularly known as the Chapel of the Indians, is the oldest religious temple in the city of São Paulo. Located in Praça Padre Aleixo Monteiro Mafra, in the neighborhood of São Miguel Paulista, city of São Paulo. The chapel, which was built by the Guayana Indians catechized by the Jesuits in 1560. During excavations inside, several ancient objects and bones were found.
58. Museu Botânico Doutor João Barbosa Rodrigues
The Dr. João Barbosa Rodrigues Botanical Museum (MBot) is a state public museum, linked to the Institute of Botany of São Paulo, which serves as didactic-exhibition equipment. It is located in the Botanical Garden of São Paulo, in the São Paulo district of Cursino. Initially conceived by the Brazilian botanist Frederico Carlos Hoehne (naturalist who had founded the São Paulo Botanical Garden), the museum was inaugurated in 1942, due to the centenary of the birth of another botanist, João Barbosa Rodrigues. The purpose of the museum was to complement the educational activities of the Botanical Garden and to encourage interest in research in basic and applied botany. Its collection, which is dedicated especially to the Brazilian flora, consists of exsiccatae, rare specimens of wood, samples of fruits, seeds and plant essences of economic importance, etc.
Wikipedia: Museu Botânico Dr. João Barbosa Rodrigues (PT), Website
59. Instituto Bardi
The Glass House was designed by the Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi, and built between 1950 and 1951, in the Morumbi region, in the city of São Paulo. The place chosen to house the monument was an allotment of the Muller Carioba Tea Farm. It was the first house built in the so-called Morumby Garden.
60. Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia
The Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE-USP) is a department of the University of São Paulo. Focused on research, teaching, and cultural and scientific diffusion. It was created in 1989, from the dismemberment of the archeology and ethnology sectors of the Museu Paulista, to which the collections of the Institute of Prehistory of USP and the Plínio Ayrosa Collection were merged. It is located in Cidade Universitária (campus), in the West Zone of São Paulo.
Wikipedia: Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (EN)
61. Museu da Imagem e do Som
The São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound is a public museum of audio-visual works, established in 1970, and located in São Paulo, Brazil. The museum was founded as a result of a project conducted in the 1960s by Brazilian intellectuals, such as Ricardo Cravo Albin, Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes and Rudá de Andrade, with the purpose of endowing the country with institutions devoted to studying and documenting works of the new media that had been ignored by traditional museums.
62. Beco do Pinto
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.
63. Marco Zero
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.
64. Rua Gonçalo Afonso
Beco do Batman is the nickname for the area around Rua Gonçalo Afonso and Rua Medeiros de Albuquerque in the Vila Madalena neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil. Beco do Batman is a popular tourist destination because of the dense concentration of graffiti that line the streets.
65. Mesquita do Brás
The Brás Mosque is a Shiite Islamic temple located in Brás, a central neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Built in 1987 by the Islamic Beneficent Association of Brazil, it is officially called the Mohammad Messenger of God Mosque. The project was made by the architect Sami Akl and Antônio Carlos Kol de Alvarenga were invited by the Islamic Association of Brazil. In 1986, the project was accompanied by the Iranian ambassador.
66. Museu do Tribunal de Justiça SP
The Museum of the Court of Justice of São Paulo, inaugurated in the Palace of Justice on February 1, 1995, is a state institutional museum, linked to the Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo. In 2007 it was based in the Palacete Conde de Sarzedas, built at the end of the nineteenth century, located at Rua Conde de Sarzedas, 100 in the city center, near the Sé subway. The museum holds temporary exhibitions and serves as a cultural space, in addition to preserving and transmitting material components related to the tradition and life of the São Paulo Judiciary, through its historical collection, so that new generations can have access to history and objects related to the Judiciary.
67. Praça da República
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.
68. Theatro São Pedro
Teatro São Pedro (English: São Pedro Theater) is located in São Paulo, Brazil. It was created by the Portuguese Manuel Fernandes Lopes and inaugurated on January 20, 1917 with the performances of the plays A Moreninha and O Escravo de Lúcifer. It is the second oldest operating theater in São Paulo.
Wikipedia: Teatro São Pedro (São Paulo) (EN), Website, Facebook
69. Centro de Preservação Cultural
The Center for Cultural Preservation (CPC) of the University of São Paulo is a center for the elaboration of reflections and actions related to the collection, conservation, research, experimentation and communication of testimonies of the cultural heritage of the Dean of Culture and University Extension of USP.
Wikipedia: Centro de Preservação Cultural da Universidade de São Paulo (PT), Facebook, Website
70. Paróquia Nossa Senhora do Bom Conselho
Paróquia Nossa Senhora do Bom Conselho is a parish located in the Mooca district of São Paulo, Brazil, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Campo Limpo. The parish is in the Belém sector of the Archdiocese of São Paulo. It was established on 24 March 1940. Construction of the church that is now the seat of the parish began in 1973.
71. Parque CienTec
The Science and Technology Park of the University of São Paulo (CienTec) is an interactive open-air museum, located in the Água Funda neighborhood, in the city of São Paulo, capital of the State of São Paulo.
Wikipedia: Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia da USP (CienTec) (PT), Facebook, Website, Youtube
72. Museum of Football
The Football Museum is a space in the city of São Paulo, Brazil dedicated to the most different subjects involving the practice, history and curiosities revolving around football in Brazil and in the world. This cultural space was built inside Pacaembu Stadium, located at Charles Miller Square in the Pacaembu neighborhood, on the west side of the city. The work was carried out by a consortium formed by the municipality and the São Paulo state government and inaugurated on September 29, 2008, with the presence of Pelé. From one of the exhibition rooms it is possible to admire the lawn of the stadium from above.
73. Planetário do Carmo
Carmo Planetarium is a planetarium in Parque do Carmo, eastern São Paulo, Brazil. It is part of the Open University of the Environment and Culture of Peace (UMAPAZ), and opened on 30 November 2005. It is one of three planetaria in São Paulo, the others being Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium and the Johannes Kepler Planetarium at Sabina Escola Parque do Conhecimento.
74. Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo
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.
75. Igreja do Carmo
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.
Wikipedia: Igreja da Ordem Terceira do Carmo (São Paulo) (EN), Website
76. Igreja Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte
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]
Wikipedia: Igreja Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte (São Paulo) (PT), Website
77. Catedral de Santo Amaro
The Cathedral of Santo Amaro is the main church of the district of Santo Amaro, located in the city of São Paulo. The sanctuary has, behind its primordial survey, great importance in relation to the history and identity of the São Paulo neighborhood.
78. Edifício Banco de São Paulo
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.
79. Paróquia Imaculado Coração de Maria
Igreja do Imaculado Coração de Maria (ICM) is a church located in São Paulo, Brazil. It is located in the district of Santa Cecilia, and was built between 1897 and 1899, replacing the Church Yard College demolished in 1896.
Wikipedia: Igreja do Imaculado Coração de Maria (São Paulo) (EN)
80. Casa do Bandeirante
The Butantã's House, or Bandeirante's House, is a Bandeirista-style building from the Brazilian colonial period located in Butantã, a neighborhood of the city of São Paulo; representing one of the typical rural dwelling models of São Paulo, it was built around the first half of the 18th-century in an extensive area peripheral to the original urban nucleus. This house portrays an unusual example of building which follows the changes in the city of São Paulo since the first centuries of Portuguese colonization, demonstrating in its architectural design and in its walls the memory of the construction processes of the colonial architecture of São Paulo, in particular of wattle and daub, a technique used in the Bandeirist colonial architecture. It has 350 m2 divided among 12 rooms and front and back porches. Currently the site on which the house stands constitutes the Monteiro Lobato Square. This space was reserved for the preservation of the property when the neighborhood was developed by the City Company. During the 1950s, for the commemorations of the 4th Centennial of the city of São Paulo, the house was the object of a restoration project by Luís Saia. The house was listed by the Council for the Defense of Historical, Archaeological, Artistic and Tourist Heritage in 1982.
81. Monumento a Ramos de Azevedo
The Monument to Ramos de Azevedo is a sculptural set in bronze and granite located in the city of São Paulo. It was designed by Italian-born Brazilian sculptor Galileo Emendabili as a posthumous tribute to Francisco de Paula Ramos de Azevedo, one of the most prominent names in architecture and urbanism in São Paulo. Azevedo died on 12 June 1928 and the monument in his honor, chosen through a competition, was inaugurated on 25 January 1934, the city's anniversary. Originally located on Tiradentes Avenue, in front of the Pinacoteca do Estado building - an important work by Azevedo himself - it was dismantled in 1967, due to the construction of São Paulo's metro, and then transferred to the Cidade Universitária Armando de Salles Oliveira in 1973, where it remains until today, in the square that bears Azevedo's name, next to the Polytechnic School, an institution he helped to create. Construction of the monument began in 1929 and was finished six years later.
82. Mesquita de Santo Amaro
Santo Amaro Mosque is one of the 23 mosques in the city of São Paulo. The first of these, and the first in Latin America as well, was built on Avenida do Estado, in 1929, called the Brazil Mosque. Called the "Muslim Beneficent Society of Santo Amaro", and located at Avenida Yervant Kissajikian, 1130, the "Masjid", or Mosque in the typical language, is located in Santo Amaro, São Paulo. It was founded on September 19, 1977. Currently, Sheikh Mohamed Albukai is the one who carries out the activities of the Mosque.
Wikipedia: Mesquita de Santo Amaro (Mesquita Misericórdia) (PT)
83. Teatro Renault
Teatro Renault, also known as Teatro Paramount and Teatro Abril, is located on Brigadeiro Luís Antônio Avenue, in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. It opened in 1929, burned down in 1969 and reopened in 2001.
84. Itaú Cultural
Instituto Itaú Cultural is a Brazilian not-for-profit cultural institute owned by Itaú Unibanco. The institute was founded by Olavo Egydio Setúbal and created under the Law nº 7505, of 3 October 1986. The institute's goal is to map artistic manifestations and to foster artistic research and production related to all cultural sections.
85. Paróquia Nossa Senhora da Consolação
Igreja Nossa Senhora da Consolação is located in the Consolação neighborhood in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. It was founded in 1799 and reformed in 1840. The current building was designed by the German engineer Maximilian Emil Hehl and built between 1909 and 1959 at the location of the original temple.
Wikipedia: Igreja Nossa Senhora da Consolação (São Paulo) (EN), Website
86. Painel do Edifício Nações Unidas
The Panel of the United Nations Building, located at 648 Paulista Avenue, on the corner of Brigadeiro Luís Antônio Avenue, in São Paulo, was created by Clóvis Graciano, with square ceramics, in 1959.
87. Nossa Senhora da Conceição da Santa Ifigênia
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.
Wikipedia: Basilica of the Most Blessed Sacrament, São Paulo (EN), Website
88. Teatro Brasileiro de Comédia
The Teatro Brasileiro de Comédia is located in the Bela Vista neighborhood, in the central zone of the Brazilian city of São Paulo. It was founded in 1948 by businessman Franco Zampari, with the financial support of part of São Paulo's elite.
89. Catavento Cultural e Educacional
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.
90. Paróquia Nossa Senhora Achiropita
The Parish of Our Lady of Acheropita (Portuguese: Paróquia Nossa Senhora Achiropita) is a church located in São Paulo, Brazil, in the Archdiocese of São Paulo. It was established on 4 March 1926 by Italian immigrants.
91. Praça Franklin Roosevelt
Praça Roosevelt is a public square in São Paulo, Brazil. Construction of the square began in 1968 and was completed in 1970. After decades of decline, the square was renovated in 2011–12. A second renovation to expand the skate park on Praça Roosevelt was completed in November 2014.
92. Aquário de São Paulo
The Aquário de São Paulo (ASP), São Paulo Aquarium in English, is an oceanarium located in the district of Ipiranga, southeastern part of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It was inaugurated on July 6, 2006, as the first thematic aquarium in Latin America.
93. Memorial da Imigração Judaica e do Holocausto
The Jewish Immigration Memorial has the oldest synagogue in the state, Kehilat Israel, located in the central region of the city of São Paulo, in the Bom Retiro neighborhood. Founded in 1912, the Memorial addresses the history of Jewish immigrants who came to Brazil, bringing documents, photos and objects to narrate this period. The memorial guarantees free admission for all audiences, and showing them in a more technological and didactic way a part of the Jewish culture present in our country offers monitored visits, just by appointment.
94. Santuário Sagrado Coração de Jesus
The Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a traditional church in the city of São Paulo that is located in the Champs Elysées neighborhood, in the center of the city, and belongs to the Catholic Church. Its construction is based on Roman architecture in the shape of a Basilica and consists of three naves. It is characterized by the copper statue of Christ the Redeemer, which decorates the top of its majestic tower and is part of a complex of buildings that contains the Liceu Coração de Jesus, a Salesian school founded in 1885.
95. Teatro Municipal da Mooca Arthur Azevedo
The Arthur Azevedo Theater is a theater located in the neighborhood of Mooca, in the eastern part of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Designed by architect Roberto Tibau, the theater was inaugurated on August 2, 1952 and listed by the Municipal Council for the Preservation of the Historical, Cultural and Environmental Heritage of the City of São Paulo (CONPRESP) in 1992 for being a significant representative of São Paulo's architecture of the 1950s. It is named after the Maranhão poet and playwright Arthur Nabantino Gonçalves de Azevedo (1855-1908), who succeeded Martins Penna's chair at the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL). In the entrance hall there is a panel painted by the artist Renato Sottomayor, who was an acquaintance of Roberto Tibau and also made panels like this one, which is influenced by the cubist movement, for the Rio de Janeiro architect Sérgio Bernardes.
Wikipedia: Teatro Municipal da Mooca Arthur Azevedo (PT), Website
96. Desembarque de Pedro Álvares Cabral em Porto Seguro em 1500
The Landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in Porto Seguro in 1500 is an oil painting by the Brazilian artist Oscar Pereira da Silva. The work, which was completed in 1900, depicts the first landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral's ships in 1500 on the land of present-day Brazil and the first meeting between Portuguese and indigenous Brazilian people. It established Oscar Pereira da Silva (1867-1939) as a prominent painter on the Brazilian artistic scene of the early 20th century. Pereira da Silva's painting is one of the most-referenced images of Pedro Álvares Cabral's arrival in Brazil, and is widely used in both textbooks and other academic publications. The painting was well received by society and the press of the time; its representation of indigenous Brazilians has been subsequently reexamined.
Wikipedia: The Landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in Porto Seguro in 1500 (EN)
97. Retrato de Maria Quitéria de Jesus Medeiros
Portrait of Maria Quitéria de Jesus Medeiros is a painting by Domenico Failutti (1872-1923). Failutto, an Italian who worked in Brazil between 1917 and 1922, completed the work in 1920 on the occasion of the centenary of the Independence of Brazil. It depicts Maria Quitéria de Jesus (1792-1853), a combatant and folk hero in the campaign for the Independence of Bahia, a conflict part of the larger Brazilian independence movement.
Wikipedia: Portrait of Maria Quitéria de Jesus Medeiros (EN)
98. Sítio Morrinhos
Sítio Morrinhos or Chácara de São Bento is an architectural complex, which consists of a main house built during the 18th century and a few annexed buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is part of the collection of Historic Houses, under the responsibility of the Museum of the City of São Paulo, in Brazil. It was previously managed by the Department of Historic Heritage (DPH) of the Municipal Secretariat of Culture of São Paulo.
99. UPA Parelheiros
Unidade de Pronto Atendimento, abbreviated as UPA or UPA 24h, is a type of health center that can be found in many cities in Brazil. They are responsible for providing medium complexity health care, forming a network organized in conjunction with primary care and hospital care. The units also have the purpose of reducing the queues in hospital emergency rooms, avoiding that less complex cases are transferred directly to the hospitals, as well as increasing the service capacity of the Unified Health System (SUS).
100. Palácio dos Bandeirantes
Palácio dos Bandeirantes is a palace in São Paulo, Brazil. It is the seat of the São Paulo state government and the governor's official residence. The palace, located at the Morumbi district, also houses some secretaries and a wide historical and artistic exhibition open to the public.
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