Sunday, October 21, 2012
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| Touring Old Sao Paulo with our tour guide, Adriana |
After
an amazing night at the Escola de Samba, today’s site seeing
agenda was pretty simple – go visit old Sao Paulo, also known as
Centro. To get to our destination, we traveled on the metro for the
first time since we arrived in Brazil. The area we are currently staying
and most of the locales that we visit don’t look all that different
from buildings I see in Atlanta or NYC but for the first time in the
past three weeks, the architecture, not the language or people, was the
key indicator that I was in a different country. I have to say; some
of the sights in old Sao Paulo were pretty sobering. I couldn’t get
myself to take pictures of the dozens of homeless people we encountered
throughout our adventure. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that
although this looks like a ghost town on a Sunday, I have heard on
Monday through Saturday it is a bustling center of commerce. Enjoy!
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| Marco Zero – Considered the official center of Sao Paulo |
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| Patio
do Colegio – This marks the site where the city was founded. It is a
Jesuit church and school started by Jesuit missionaries in 1554. Inscription: Here the cross of Christ was born in this city
dedicated to the apostle Paul by Jesuit priest Manuel da Nobrega and
Jose de Achieta among other – January 25, 1554 A.D. |
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| Catedral da se – Sao Paulo Cathedral |
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| Banespa – The “Empire State Building” of Sao Paulo |
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| Brazilian Stock Exchange |
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| Mercado municipal – Never ending tasting of exotic fruits and veggies- which became my downfall... |
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| Lunch! |
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The Market was a never ending free tasting of assorted fruits.
They were all so good that I had to buy some. The vendor was amazing, and looking back, probably a little too good at his job. After sampling the fruit, I was determined to have some for myself. Little did I know that it would cost $30! for only 4 pieces of fruit. I was taken by surprise but had already expressed so much interest.... so I paid. Did I just get hustled?
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