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Rua Oscar Freire (in English: Oscar Freire Street) is a tree-lined street stretching from Alameda Casa Branca to Avenida Doutor Arnaldo in the Jardins district of São Paulo. Named after Oscar Freire de Carvalho, [ 1 ] it is known for having a large number of stores selling luxury goods .
Liberdade was successfully connected to the São Paulo subway network in the 1970s, opening the area up to commerce. Today, thousands of tourist from inside and outside the city flock to the public square in Liberdade every weekend to purchase craft goods at the local weekly fair .
The São Paulo Macrometropolis (Portuguese: Macrometrópole de São Paulo) or São Paulo Megalopolis (Portuguese: Megalópole de São Paulo), [1] [2] also known as Expanded Metropolitan Complex (Portuguese: Complexo Metropolitano Expandido), [3] is a Brazilian megalopolis that emerged through the existing process of conurbation between the São Paulo's metropolitan areas located around the ...
The building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer's office in São Paulo; Niemeyer was personally responsible for the building's famous sinuous façade. The idea was a building open to a mixed cross-section of Brazilian society. [4]
The Vila Olímpia (in English 'Olympia Village') is an upper-class neighborhood in the district of Itaim Bibi in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Vila Olímpia is home to the Brazilian offices of several multinational companies including Unilever , Google , Yahoo! , CNET , Intel , Symantec , Microsoft , among many others.
Brasilinvest was established in 1975 by Mário Garnero. The 1980s began with drastic changes in Brazilian politics, with the aim of controlling inflation and the balance of payments deficit. In 1983, NEC Brasil, the Brazilian subsidiary of NEC Corporation (Nippon Electric Company) could not operate in Brazil because of Brazilian government's rules to pro
Also located in the Sé are the Pátio do Colégio, site of the foundation of the city in 1554, the São Paulo stock exchange (the Bovespa), the mayor's palace and other historical buildings, including the Municipal Theater of São Paulo, the São Paulo Music Hall (Sala São Paulo) and the central railway Luz Station (Estação da Luz).
The Historic Center of São Paulo (Portuguese: Centro Histórico de São Paulo), also known as Centro, is a neighborhood in the Central Zone of the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil. It corresponds to the area where the city was founded on January 25, 1554, by the Jesuit priests António Vieira, Joseph of Anchieta and Manuel da Nobrega.