Why go à SÃO PAULO?

The non-Paulist sees Sampa as a photograph taken from the top of the Italia skyscraper. A Blade Runner-like landscape, shaped by Bilal's pen, where frantic businessmen scurry like ants through the subway entrances, fleeing the violence and pollution of the surrounding world. The numbers make you dizzy in this oversized city. A megalopolis on a global scale with 18 million inhabitants, São Paulo is the very image of the urban jungle. The capital of São Paulo has all the ills of the great cities of the South: pollution, violence and pockets of misery. However, Sampa is a city made up of neighborhoods with a specific identity. It's a working town, but it's also a place for strolling, as in Ibiripuera, having fun and learning in its marvellous museums. Cuisine is an unsuspected heritage. Perhaps this is the city of tomorrow, a social laboratory with a mixed population and a committed society.