{"id":2190,"date":"2006-01-21T19:05:52","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T02:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2011-10-09T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T14:15:58","slug":"sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/01\/21\/sao-paulo\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00c3\u00a3o Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I got to go to S\u00c3\u00a3o Paulo , Brazil<\/a>, on a business trip from January 15 through January 21, 2006. This was my first time in Brazil; I had a great time and would go again.<\/p>\n

We stayed at L’Hotel, a very nice hotel near one of the major shopping and banking streets, Avenida Paulista<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The view from my hotel room window<\/span><\/p>\n

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A park on Avenida Paulista<\/span><\/p>\n

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A postcard with a panoramic view of Sao Paulo Centro<\/span><\/p>\n

The main office of the bank we were visiting, Banco Real<\/a>, which is owned by ABN AMRO, is on that street.<\/p>\n

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Part of the facade of the main office of Banco Real<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Bank is sponsoring a running race in January – this is a post card handed
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We walked around the area near the hotel a bit, finding some interesting radio towers, constructed like the Eiffel Tower. We also did some shopping, and found Bob’s Burgers!<\/p>\n

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Two radio towers on Avenida Paulista<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bob’s Burgers in one of the malls on Avenida Paulista <\/span><\/div>\n
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School children lining up outside a school<\/span><\/div>\n

I also went to the MASP, the museum of art in Sao Paulo. Its a really nice museum with a small but very good collection including a Hans Memling and three Hieronymus Bosch’s.<\/p>\n

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The facade of MASP<\/span><\/p>\n

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The ticket to enter MASP<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ressurreicao de Cristo<\/strong> by Raphaelo Santos<\/span><\/div>\n

I read a great book on this trip, which I found by accident – while searching on amazon.com for a pocket guide to Sao Paulo, I found a book titled City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in S\u00c3\u00a3o Paulo<\/a>\"\" by Teresa P.R. Caldeira – you can find my brief review in my blog<\/a>. If you visit Sao Paulo, do be careful – there’s lots of crime and there are very very bad areas of town; two colleagues were robbed as they arrived at our hotel 15 minutes before we walked in from dinner.<\/p>\n

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I got to go to S\u00c3\u00a3o Paulo , Brazil, on a business trip from January 15 through January 21, 2006. This was my first time in Brazil; I had a great time and would go again. We stayed at L’Hotel, a very nice hotel near one of the major shopping and banking streets, Avenida Paulista. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[604,379,143],"tags":[606,605],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-sao-paulo","category-travel-foreign","tag-banco-real","tag-cities-in-brazil"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t