SÃO PAULO IS MY COUNTRY

Today's Photo Friday theme is "The Country"

São Paulo is my city, is my country.

Copan Building (Edifício Copan) is on its own an important tourist attraction and one of the city's most famous postcards. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, it is the city's largest armed concrete structure. It has 6 blocks with 1160 apartments and a mini-mall at the ground floor. About five thousand people living in this building.

Former Light Building



Tea Viaduct and Municipal Theatre. (Viaduto do Chá e Teatro Municipal) The first viaduct built in São Paulo, it was named Tea Viaduct because it was near a large tea crop. Built with metal structure brought from Germany, a great party was held in its opening, in 1892. It links Rua Direita (old downtown) with Rua do Chá, now Rua Barão de Itapetininga (new downtown).

Anhangabaú Valley (Vale do Anhangabaú) is between downtown's two main viaducts: Viaduto do Chá and Viaduto Santa Efigênia.

Municipal Theatre (Teatro Municipal) The theater was built in 1903, when the coffee boom was at its peak and São Paulo at its most confident and inaugurated in 1911.



City Hall (Prefeitura Municipal)



Panoramic view from the top of Italia Building



View from the top of Banespa Bank Building



General Carneiro Street



Ipiranga Avenue



Republic Square

Garden of Luz Railway Station (Jardim da Luz)

Square of Sé (Praça da Sé) The city's Marco Zero ("zero milestone") is located at Praça da Sé, indicating the directions of the states that share boundaries with São Paulo and from where the distance of any point in the state starts being counted. Catedral Metropolitana da Sé (Sé Metropolitan Cathedral) is located there. The square has a gothic style, started being built in 1913 and it was completed only four decades later.

Sé Metropolitan Cathedral (Catedral Metropolitana da Sé)



The Pátio do Colégio marks the place where the city of São Paulo was founded.



Barão de Itapetininga Street



São Luis Avenue

Conjunto Nacional Building at Paulista Avenue

Conjunto Nacional Building view from Alameda Santos

Augusta Street



Paulista Avenue Brazil’s best-known business area.



Paulista Avenue with Augusta Street

Near the Barra Funda Terminal at São Paulo's West Side

View to buildings behind to the Clube Pinheiros, at South Side of the city.

Faria Lima Avenue is home to many of the headquarters of foreign investment banks.

Dacon Building at Faria Lima Avenue

Cidade Jardim Avenue and Faria Lima Avenue. Photo taken from the top of Dacon's Building.

Photos taken by Carlos Mascaro

You can see another photos of São Paulo here and here.