Rua Gonçalo Afonso, aka beco do Batman (Batman’s alley), is a narrow alleyway in the Vila Madalena neighbourhood known for being a true open air graffiti museum. Here you will find São Paulo‘s street art at its best. A 360º panorama of the alley: The entrance to the alley: All the walls are covered with [...]
Google has just incorporated a transit layer to its maps. It contains information for a number of world cities, including an important selection from Brazil: Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Recife, Río de Janeiro and São Paulo. When you turn on the transit layer (accesible through a drop-down menu on the top right-hand side of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
BY PLANE The main airlnes (TAM, Gol and Varig) fly to Curitiba from São Paulo. New low-cost airline Azul flies to Curitiba from Viracopos airport in Campinas. The company runs shuttle buses from São Paulo to Viracopos. BY BUS The trip takes approximately 6 hours (traffic permiting) and leaves from Terminal Tietê in São Paulo. [...]
