São Paulo Nightlife |
São Paulo is Brazil's most cosmopolitan city, with sundry cultural attractions to satisfy all tastes. Check out some of our picks.
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São Paulo Shopping |
Paulistanos work hard to line their pocketbooks, and they spend their cash with the same zest as they earn it. Here are some tips should you want to follow in their footsteps.
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São Paulo Graffiti Tour: osgemeos |
Their lyrical, surrealist and playful graffiti began popping up around their stomping grounds, Cambuci, a São Paulo working class enclave dotted with cottage industries near downtown, in the late 1980s. Now identical twins Otávio and Gustavo (osgemeos, literally “thetwins”) travel the world, shapeshifting from outsider graffiti “writers” to insider gallery and museum artists - and back. A “clean-up” campaign by the City of São Paulo is destroying many of the classic graffiti murals that have dotted the city for years. But if you hurry you may be able to catch some of osgemeos world-class street art.
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Visit Fortaleza with TV Reporter Stephanie Eilert |
Fortaleza native and television reporter Stephanie Eilert offers visitors some tips about her hometown, the coastal capital of Ceará state.
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Gávea Rock: Urban Ecotourism Hike in Rio de Janeiro |
Flanked by the hardscrabble streets of Rio de Janeiro, the Pedra da Gávea juts out from the shore with majesty unrivaled even by the city’s postcard peaks Sugarloaf and Corcovado. The granite block is surrounded by a tangle of mysterious legends, but for enthusiasts of urban ecotourism, Gávea Rock is simply the “can’t miss” hike in Rio de Janeiro.
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Favela Tours in Rio de Janeiro |
Poor folks don’t seem to get much respect in Rio de Janeiro, but they sure have the best views. To learn why, and to see those vistas, visitors can sign up for tours of the netherworld of some of the city’s famous - or infamous - shantytowns, called favelas. They can even abandon their fancy digs in the Copacabana Marriott to spend a night or more in a favela bed-and-breakfast.
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