São Paulo in 3 days: 22 million people in the Southern Hemisphere's largest city, the best Japanese food outside Japan, a pixação-tagged skyline, a Saturday feijoada that lasts 3 hours and nightlife that runs from Thursday to Sunday without stopping.
The most important Western art collection in the Southern Hemisphere: Raphael, Rembrandt, Manet, Van Gogh and Tarsila do Amaral, in a building that was a radical act in 1968.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe richest street in Latin America becomes a pedestrian park on Sundays: drum circles, political debate, skaters, cyclists and the São Paulo public in its most relaxed and accessible form.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe birthplace of São Paulo's global graffiti culture: floor-to-ceiling murals that change each month, and the Pixação tags (the distinctive angular São Paulo style on the highest inaccessible surfaces).
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe fat-capped rump cap (picanha), the smoked sausage and the marinated chicken hearts carved tableside by gaucho passadors: the all-you-can-eat Brazilian steakhouse at its finest.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideMore Japanese descendants than any city outside Japan: the Japanese supermarkets, the Japanese immigration museum and the Sunday Liberdade Market selling Japanese crafts and food.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Art Deco covered market with 18 stained glass panels of Brazilian agriculture and 290 stalls: the mortadella sandwich (the most popular street food in São Paulo) piled 250g thick at Hocca Bar.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide130,000 visitors on a Sunday: the 1954 Oscar Niemeyer park with the São Paulo Biennial venue, the contemporary art museum, and the spontaneous drum circle on the lawn in the afternoon.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideRua Funchal and its club district: pagode bars, the D-Edge electronic club (one of the world's best) and the São Paulo upper-middle-class nightlife that genuinely does not stop until 6am.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe 12-cut pork and black bean stew (tail, ear, rib, salt beef, two sausages) with farofa, rice, collard greens and orange: a 3-hour Saturday institution that is the most social meal in Brazil.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe neoclassical palace reopened 2022 on the exact spot where Pedro I pulled his sword and declared independence from Portugal: the actual clothes he wore that day are in the collection.
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