the São Paulo subway system

Posted on July 28th, 2008 in Destination: São Paulo

The São Paulo subway system (the metrô), although minute, takes you to a large number of points of interest in the city. It used to be fast, safe and clean. There are three main lines and a fourth line not connected to the rest of the network. On the metrô’s website there is section where [...]

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the Rio de Janeiro subway

Posted on July 14th, 2008 in Destination: Rio

As it is the case with São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro’s subway [underground] network is minute, specially when you take into account the size of the city. However, it’s good to be familiar with it as it runs through a number of places of interest in the city. There are two subway lines: linea 1 [...]

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