An aerial view of our "Selva de Pedra", showing part of downtown




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"São Paulo não pode parar!" (São Paulo can't stop!).
This is the slogan that leads our tireless megalopolis."Paulistas" (people from São Paulo) are always in a whirlwind, rushing to work, facing the heavy traffic, fighting against the watch......
"Vambora, vambora! Olha a hora, vambora, vambora!!!"
(Let's go, let's go! Watch the time, let's go, let's go!!!), says a song about Sampa. And so we go...
But our city have its charms, too. Here you have an intense cultural and artistic life, hundreds of cinemas and theaters, very good spectacles and concerts, more than 1000 restaurants, a boiling nightlife, lots of entertainment, the biggest shopping-centers...
In spite of the stressing life and behind the appearance sometimes too serious, paulistas are "gente boa"! (very fine people!)..:)
As we don't have beaches nor nature, we enjoy the town meeting our friends, going out to dinner, to dance -- or simply spending a nice time together in our homes ...
One thing is sure: if you need a real friend, look for us!...



Curiosities about São Paulo, published by the newspaper
"O Estado de São Paulo", when the city completed 443 years (January 25th, 1997).
:


- We are 10.017.821 persons, inside the 1509 square kilometers (area) of the Capital (not counting the Great São Paulo)
-There are 4.631.430 cars in transit by the 14.000 km of streets and avenues
- The average of congested traffic is over 100 km, everyday
- There are 4.500 traffic-lights (semáforos)in the town
- We have 11.004 buses, in 1277 different circuits along the city (the biggest bus fleet in the world)...
- Every month, this fleet circulates through 2,1 billions of kilometers... (twice the distance between Earth and moon)
- Everyday, the paulistas eat 23 millions of “french bread”(a bread with 50g)
- And everyday are eaten 2 millions of “Big-Macs”
- There are 16.000 pipes of treated water along the city, and are consumed everyday 3.6 billions letres of water
- There are 40 parks in Sampa, but it means only 3 meters of green area by person...
- Everyday , 12.000 ton of garbage goes to the sanitary earth embankement, to be treated
- We have 1599 bank agencies in the town
... and everyday, 565 children are born in São Paulo!


Here are some details of the city
(click on the pic to enlarge)



Paulista Avenue, the Capitol´s economic center,
a concentration of big banks and big offices



The Ipirapuera Park, a very nice place to go
and one of the biggest green area in town



Inside our Cathedral, the Catedral da Sé



One of the many viaducts complexes,
coneccting the West and East districts



São Paulo by night: the city never sleeps...


Here you have more about São Paulo: tourists informations, maps, a guide of the city, pictures...Take a look!

The city, pictures, entertainment and more informations...

A virtual travel to Sampa...

Visit a virtual exposition in MASP (São Paulo Art Museum)


You are listening "Sampa", from Caetano Veloso



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