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Joseph Safra's House
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According to Forbes, Safra is the second-richest Brazilian and the world's richest banker, with a net worth of $15.9 billion (2013). He heads the banking and investment empire, Safra Group. The Safras are one of the most prominent Brazilian families (see also Edmond Safra, Lily Safra etc.).

Google Street View car
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Joelma Building Fire - February 1, 1974
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The Joelma Building is a 25 floor skyscraper in Sao Paulo, Brazil, located at 225 Avenida 9 de Julho. It was the site of a famous disaster, as at 8:50am on February 1st, 1974, an air conditioning unit on the twelfth floor overheated, starting a fire. Due to the fact that flammable materials had been used to make interior furniture, the entire building was engulfed in flames within 20 minutes. By the time the fire was extinguished at 1:30pm, of the 756 people in the building, 179 had been killed and 300 more were left injured.

Edemar Cid Ferreira's House
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This is the house of Edemar Cid Ferreira, a famous Brazilian banker, once head of Banco Santos, and notorious art collector. The house, situated in the upmarket neighbourhood of Morumbi, was designed by Ruy Othake and features a helipad, among other things. Edemar's across-the-street neighbour is the famous billionaire Joseph Safra.

Luiz Roberto Ortiz Nascimento's house
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Luis Roberto Ortiz Nascimento is a member of the family that founded Camargo Corrêa, one of the biggest private conglomerates in Brazil and one of its most famous construction companies.

Allianz Parque
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Palestra Itália Stadium (aka Parque Antárctica), Palmeiras' home stadium.

Favela Paraisópolis
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Ginásio Poliesportivo José Corrêa
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Biggest toilet seat ???
Strange place. Obviously not build to be seen from above.

Morumbi Stadium
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Morumbi Stadium, home of Sao Paulo FC, located in the Morumbi barrio

Bugatti EB110 & Pagani Zonda
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Washington Umberto Cinel's House
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This house once belonged to the Brazilian billionaire Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, who sold it to Ricardo Mansur, the owner of Mappin and Mesbla.
Today it is owned by an Uruguayan business entity Compania Administradora de Valores and its resident is the entrepreneur Washington Cinel, the owner of the security firm Gocil.

Fausto Corrêa da Silva's house
Fausto Corrêa da Silva, better known as Faustão, is a Brazilian TV presenter. He is most known for being the host of Sunday show Domingão do Faustão.

Girl on cell phone
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Playcenter
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Amusement Park

Estádio do Morumbi

Abram Szajman's house
Abram Szajman is a Brazilian businessman, president of Fecomercio, Brazilian chamber of commerce.

Antônio Ermírio de Moraes's House (Deceased)
This estate in the prestigious São Paulo neighbourhood of Morumbi used to belong to Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, who was one of the world's richest men, chairman of Votarantim Group, one of Brazil's largest companies, specializing in metals, cement, paper, and orange juice.

Guy with a gun

Rolf Roberto Baumgart's house
Rolf Roberto Baumgart is a member of the Baumgart family, who founded the Center Norte, the major shopping-mall chain in Latin America.

Carandiru Penitentiary
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Sambódromo São Paulo
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Main venue for carnival in São Paulo.

TAM Airlines Flight 3054 crash site
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ 3054) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Porto Alegre and São Paulo, Brazil. The Airbus A320 aircraft used for the route, PR-MBK crashed upon landing during rain in São Paulo on July 17, 2007. PR-MBK overran the runway, crossed a major thoroughfare during rush hour, crashed at high speed into a TAM Express warehouse adjacent to a gas station and exploded. There were 187 people on board: 181 passengers, 19 of whom were TAM employees, and 6 crew members. All passengers and crew were killed in the crash, in addition to twelve people on the ground. As of 2007, Flight 3054 has the highest death toll of any aviation accident in Latin America and the highest death toll of any accident involving an Airbus A320 anywhere in the world.

Einstein

Estádio do Canindé

Flooding

Estádio Icaro de Castro Melo

Estação da Luz
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Praça da Luz, nº 1

Kiyoteru Yonamine's house
Kiyoteru Yonamine is a member of the family who founded Panco, a Brazilian food company.

Autódromo José Carlos Pace
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Feira-livre - Centro de Exposições Imigrantes
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Jorge Yunes's House
Lawyer and businessman Jorge Yunes, owner of the publishing house IBEP, lives in this house in the São Paulo neighbourhood of Jardim Europa.

Flooded street

Cidade Universitária velodrome and tennis courts
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Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
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Praça Ramos de Azevedo, s/nº.

MASP - Museu de Artes de São Paulo

Catedral Metropolitana da Sé
Praça da Sé, Centro

Abílio dos Santos Diniz's House
The famous Brazillian billionaire, who was once a victim of a notorious kidnapping plot, lives in this house in the prestigious São Paulo neighbourhood of Jardim América. Abílio dos Santos Diniz is the chairman of Grupo Pão de Açúcar retail chain and father of the former Formula One driver Pedro Diniz. In his youth, he was a race-car driver himself.

Paulo Maluf's House
The former prefect and former governor of São Paulo, politician Paulo Maluf lives here. He bought the lot in the 1950s, demolished the existing house and built a new one around 1965. It boasts a garage for Maluf's luxurious cars and a wine cellar with wines brought from France in the 1970s.

Airplane over São Paulo 2
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Pacaembu Stadium
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Paulo Machado de Carvalho Stadium, aka Pacaembu, Sao Paulo's public stadium

Jaguar Graffiti

Edifício Itália
By Franz Heep

What is he doing?

Headless Mule - Brazilian folklore
The Headless Mule (Portuguese Mula sem Cabeça) is a character in Brazilian folklore. In most tales, it is the ghost of a woman that has been cursed by God for her sins (often said to be as concubinate or fornication with a priest within of the a church) and condemned to turn into a fire-spewing headless mule, galloping through the countryside from Thursday's sundown to Friday's sunrise. The myth has several variations concerning the sin that turned the cursed woman into the monster: necrophagy, infanticide, sacrilege against the church, fornication, etc.

Brazilian Carnival
The Carnival of Brazil, properly spelled "Carnaval" in Portuguese, is an annual festival in Brazil held forty days before Easter. On certain days of Lent, Roman Catholics and some other Christians traditionally abstained from the consumption of meat and poultry, hence the term "carnival," from carnelevare, "to remove (literally, "raise") meat." Carnival celebrations are believed to have roots in the pagan festival of Saturnalia, which, adapted to Christianity, became a farewell to bad things in a season of religious discipline to practice repentance and prepare for Christ's death and resurrection.
Rhythm, participation, and costumes vary from one region of Brazil to another. In the southeastern cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, organized parades led by samba schools are influenced in aesthetics by Venice Carnival. Those official parades are meant to be watched by the public, while minor parades ("blocos") allowing public participation can be found in other cities. The northeastern cities of Salvador, Porto Seguro and Recife have organized groups parading through streets, and public interacts directly with them. This carnival is heavily influenced by African-Brazilian culture. Crowds follow the trio elétricos floats through the city streets. Also in northeast, Olinda carnival features unique characteristics, part influenced by Venice Carnival mixed with cultural despections of local folklore.

Jockey Club de São Paulo
Hipódromo de Cidade Jardim

Constantino family house
Constantino (in reality, de Oliveira) family founded the Gol Linhas Aéreas, a Brazilian airline based in São Paulo, Brazil.
The house is now on sale, for 100,000,000 Brazilian reals, which is around 31,100,000 U.S. dollars.

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Graffiti

Graffiti by Magrela, Sinha, Sola

Beco do Batman
What makes it different and cannot be seen from above is that every single wall in its 100m extension is covered top-to-bottom with graffiti of all shapes and colours.
The graffiti here are not the average large-letter tags, although there is a lot of that.
Batman's Alley or Beco do Batman, in Portuguese, resembles more an open-air street art gallery, where abstract, surreal, psychedelic and geometric paintings colourfully co-exist.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10156816

Campo de Marte Airport (RTE)
Aeroporto Campo de Marte

Cidade Universitária
USP - Universidade de São Paulo

Mercado Municipal
Mercado Municipal de São Paulo

TAM Flight 402 crash site : October 31, 1996
TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 was a Fokker 100 airliner, operating as a scheduled domestic flight from Congonhas/São Paulo International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil to Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro on October 31, 1996, which crashed shortly after take-off, killing a total of 99 people.

Estádio Nicolau Alayon 'Comendador de Souza'

Canindé Stadium
Doutor Oswaldo Teixeira Duarte Stadium (Canindé), São Paulo. Portuguesa de Desportos' home stadium.

Congonhas Airport (CGH)

Zakumi, 2010 FIFA World Cup mascot
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The logo for the World Cup is at his feet

SE Palmeiras Training Center

Clube Atlético Paulistano
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Famous Sports Club. Entertainment Building

Passed out on the curb
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Must have had a rough night

Sleeping

Dog hanging out car window

'L'enlèvement de Psyché' by Oscar Pereira da Silva, after Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

João Doria Jr.'s House
Brazilian journalist and entrepreneur, owner of the Doria Associados group, lives in this house in the neighbourhood of Jardim Europa in São Paulo.

'Moorish Woman' by Dario Villares Barbosa

Esporte Clube Pinheiros
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One of the biggest clubs in Latin America with 168,000 sq mtrs area.

Airplane over São Paulo
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"Welcome To Real Brazil" mural by Eduardo Kobra

Albert Einstein Hospital

Palácio do Governo
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Transbrasil Flight 801 crash site : March 21, 1989
The Boeing 707 cargo of Transbrasil preparing to land at Cumbica Airport, in Sao Paulo, where a miscalculation of the pilot prevents the approach to the runway and the plane drops about a slum near the airport . The accident left 25 dead, including crew and locals.

Sala São Paulo
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The Julio Prestes Cultural Center, which is located in the Julio Prestes Train Station in the old north central section of the city of São Paulo, Brazil, was inaugurated on July 9, 1999. The building has been totally restored and renovated by the São Paulo State Government, as part of the downtown revitalization in that city. It houses the Sala São Paulo, which has a capacity of 1498 seats and is the home of the São Paulo State Symphonic Orchestra (OSESP). It is a venue for symphonic and chamber presentations and has been designed according to state of the art standards, comparable to the Boston Symphonic Hall, Musikverein in Vienna and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

TAM Airlines Flight 3054 crash site (July 17, 2007)
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TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ 3054) was an Airbus A320 airliner, registration PR-MBK, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Porto Alegre and São Paulo, Brazil, which crashed upon landing during rain in São Paulo on July 17, 2007. The twin-engined turbofan aircraft overran the runway, crossed a major thoroughfare during rush hour, crashed at high speed into a TAM Express warehouse adjacent to a gas station and exploded.There were 187 people on board: 181 passengers, 19 of them TAM employees, and 6 crew members. All passengers and crew were killed in the crash, in addition to twelve people on the ground. As of 2009, Flight 3054 has the highest death toll of any aviation accident in Latin America and the highest death toll of any accident involving an Airbus A320 anywhere in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAM_Airlines_Flight_3054

Brazil Soccer Logo
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Guy using a payphone

Ginásio do Ibirapuera
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São Paulo´s biggest arena.

Viaduto do Chá - São Paulo

Funny pose

Pigeon flying

Guy sleeping on the sidewalk
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Hexagon pools
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At Cidade Universitária.

Feira-livre em São Paulo (Jabaquara)
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Street market in São Paulo (blue line)

Hand down his pants & passed out on sidewalk
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Blimp over Edifício Copam and Terraço Itália

Large power substation
Feeds power to Sao Paulo

MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna

Geneses House by Isay Weinfeld
This is a 2,700 m² (around 29,000 ft²) house designed by Isay Weinfeld, a famous Brazilian architect.

Paulista Avenue
Paulista Avenue (Avenida Paulista in Portuguese, Paulista being the gentilic for those born in São Paulo state) is one of the most important avenues in São Paulo, Brazil. The 2.8 kilometre thoroughfare is notable for headquartering a large number of financial and cultural institutions, as well as being home to an extensive shopping area and to Latin America's most comprehensive fine-art museum, MASP. Since the 1960s, the avenue has been identified as one of the main business centers in the city. Being one of the highest points in São Paulo, it is distinctively clustered with radio and TV stations antennae, such as Gazeta's. The road is served by a subway line and many major bus routes. The avenue, which was inaugurated in December 1891, is generally regarded as the most expensive real estate anywhere in Latin America.

'SESC Pompeia Factory' by Lina Bo bardi
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São Paulo Indy 300 western turn
The São Paulo Indy 300 is an upcoming event in the IRL IndyCar Series, which will open the 2010 IndyCar Series season.
The event was announced on November 25, 2009 – the first event for the series outside of North America, Australia and Japan, and the first American open-wheel race in the country since 2000. Despite a lengthy distance to travel from most team bases, the event promoters will offer each team a six-figure sum of money, as well as paying for all expenses.

Ayrton Senna
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A wall features an image of Brazilian auto racing legend Ayrton Senna near the cemetery where he is buried. Senna died in a Formula One racing accident at the San Marino Grand Prix on May 1, 1994.

Mauro Mateus dos Santos "Sabotage" Brazilian Rapper
Mauro Mateus dos Santos (April 13, 1973 - January 24, 2003), better known by his stage name Sabotage, was a Brazilian MC.
Having grown up slinging drugs in São Paulo’s rough South Zone, he became one of the biggest sensations of hip hop in Brazil with the release of his first and only album in 2001, titled Rap é Compromisso. Also he participated on others records, such as group Sepultura's Revolusongs EP, recording a cover of Public Enemy's "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos", which was released in 2002, he acted in and recorded the soundtrack to the Brazilian film "The Trespasser (O Invasor) and also acted in Carandiru.

Zoo São Paulo

Luís de Camões statue
Luís Vaz de Camões (Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈiʒ ˈvaʒ ðɨ kaˈmõjʃ]; sometimes rendered in English as Camoens English pronunciation: /ˈkæm oʊˌənz/; c. 1524 – 10 June 1580) is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads). His recollection of poetry The Parnasum of Luís de Camões was lost in his lifetime. The influence of his masterpiece "Os Lusíadas" in Portuguese is so profound that it is called the "language of Camões".

Entreposto Terminal de São Paulo - Ceagesp
The biggest supplying center of Latin America, the Ceagesp's Terminal Warehouse of São Paulo is one of the biggest of the world, not only in sales volume as also in available area.

João Paulo Diniz's house
João Paulo Falleiros dos Santos Diniz, Brazilian entrepreneur, owner of Componente Holding, and an alumnus of London Business School, lives in this house, which was designed by Isay Weinfeld, in the upmarket São Paulo neighbourhood of Jardim Europa, with his wife, Ana Garcia. He is also a consultant for the Grupo Pão de Açúcar, which is under the control of his father, Abílio Diniz, and was once a partner of the Grupo Fasano. João Paulo also owns three restaurants in Rua Amauri, in São Paulo's Itaim Bibi district. In July 2001, João Paulo survived a helicopter accident near the city of Maresias, together with the pilot.

Consulate General of the Czech Republic - Sao Paulo
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Sociedade Hípica Paulista