S?o Paulo was an Indian village in the early years, on January 25, 1554, the Portuguese colonists came to this piece of virgin land, found that its geographic location is ideal, it is a large construction to open up the land to build this city, because this day is the Catholic commemoration of the day of the saints St. Paul's day, it will be the name of this city as S?o Paulo. And in the center of the city to build a small church, has been more than four hundred years of history, is the predecessor of today's S?o Paulo Cathedral, has become one of the largest churches in South America, known as the world's five largest and most magnificent Goethean churches. 1711 S?o Paulo set up a city in 1822, the Brazilian Declaration of Independence, in 1880, S?o Paulo is still an area of two square kilometers of the population of 40,000 people in a small city, but to the In the 19th century, due to the large-scale planting of coffee in the nearby areas and the arrival of a large number of foreign immigrants, this small city after four hundred years of continuous renewal and development, the rapid development of day by day, has become the world's most famous metropolis.
Today's S?o Paulo has a total area of 1,693 square kilometers, with a population of 17.4 million, and an ethnically mixed population, known as the world's melting pot of races. High-rise buildings rise up one after another, and the streets are wide and crisscrossed with traffic. Many buildings in the city up to 30, 40-story, such as the Bank of S?o Paulo State 32-story, 41-story Italian building, the top of the restaurant and observatory, with the railings overlooking the city's scenery at a glance.
The city of S?o Paulo, in addition to industrial and commercial prosperity, Brazil is a Catholic country, the people are mostly Catholic, but in S?o Paulo, there are many of the various denominations, can be said to be a strong flavor of the religious city. Built in 1911 and completed in 1922, St. Bindo Monastery is located in the center of the St. Bindo Square and St. Dalfinia Bridge, one of the ends of the Monastery's grand scale, the courtyard is decorated with statues in addition to drawings, there is also a 1777 Baroque cross, and Russian refugees in 1893 brought to Brazil by the statue of Our Lady of Kasbeskar, the knight explorer Fenangiades and his wife are buried in the Monastery. the monastery. Every Sunday morning, the monks can be seen singing hymns at Mass. The thriving business district is centered around November 15th Street, St. Bento Street, Aboriginal Custody, with Plaza Lado and Plaza **** and Square. In the gardens of *** and Plaza, there is a crafts bazaar with stalls selling precious stones and antiques, woodcarvings, stone carvings, leather goods and paintings. Every Sunday, foreign tourists and local citizens have come to buy. There is a big market in the city center, covering an area of 27,000 square meters, where specializing in the sale of people's food, meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, etc., from morning to night the crowd is very lively. Only in recent years the growth of new supermarkets and shopping centers, these streets business declined greatly, except for the 25th Street cheap goods, business is very hot, can compete with the major shopping malls, the other past commercial street most of the other industries (the 25th Street is our new immigrants to make a living in paradise). But not far from the train station, a street specializing in bridal gowns, business is still said to be booming, where stores are full of a variety of bridal wedding dresses and new house supplies, the whole street is full of wedding cheer, all to Sao Paulo travelers will have to go and see.
The so-called financial street of PAULISTA Avenue, Sao Paulo is a major artery, is the country's big window, the street on both sides of a beautiful architectural style of high-rise buildings, but still can see one or two with the Portuguese colors of the old buildings, is the city government deliberately retained. Street is both wide and clean, where banks, many large companies are set up in this office, in addition to no shortage of cultural institutions, theaters, cinemas, television stations are also many, but also demonstrations and celebrations of the place, every Sunday, there are antique markets and groceries and handicrafts market, people come and go very lively. On December 31st, the whole street is closed for the Sao Siluestre, the most popular annual sports event in Brazil. The stores on both sides of the street are all decorated in a magnificent manner. The street is bustling with people and traffic. On this street, there is a famous S?o Paulo Museum of Contemporary Art, built in 1963, which contains more than 5,000 pieces of art, including oil paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics and other very valuable fine art, is the largest museum of Western art creation in Latin America. The Biennale is held here once every two years. In 1953, Picasso's most famous "Guernica Painting", together with more than 50 pieces of his works, appeared in the Biennale in this museum, and from then on, the Sao Paulo Biennale has become the world's largest art exhibition event on a par with the Venice Biennale, and modern art has been y localized in Brazil. Localized.
The art museum is directly across from the city center of the Forest Park, the park sky-high trees, rows and rows of dense cover the sun, a green, in this walk, listen to the rustling sound of the treetops, look at the tree seams shot down through the dappled debris, such as small star-like sunlight, shining through their own body flickering scenario, it is really called people intoxicated. Here there is no pollution and no dust and smoke, you can enjoy the fresh air and quiet environment, is a good place for citizens to relax and avoid the quiet.
Brazil's history of only 500 years, there is really no attractions to see the scenery, the only worthy of a look at the "Iberabuera" Park, and the Iberian Palace Museum. Iberabuera Park, this vast area of several kilometers, was originally a swamp, is an Indian village. In 1954, it was converted into a park and opened to the public to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the city of S?o Paulo. The main body of the park is a large lake of more than 100 acres, surrounded by green meadows and thick eucalyptus trees, as well as towering palms and cypresses. Flower clusters of trillium, blooming fuchsia, flowers such as the fire of the phoenix tree, there are many unknown flowers and trees, so that people are dazzled, looking at the lake, straight into the vault of the Revolutionary Monument solemn attention, the Revolutionary Monument, also known as the "July 9" monument, is to commemorate the July 9, 1931, the democracy of S?o Paulo to protect the constitutional movement and the construction of. The monument is 82 meters high. The 82-meter-high monument is modeled after an Egyptian obelisk, with a view of the imposing State Capitol, the gymnasium with its umbrella-like dome, and the high and low modern buildings. The park also has more than ten public **** building, museums, astrological museums, biennial exhibition halls and gymnasiums and other constructions, especially built a Japanese-style garden, even the S?o Paulo municipal government offices are also partially located in the park. When you look down at the lake, you can see the fish swimming in the lake, and the waves shimmering in the breeze. In the lake around the swimmers or sitting or standing or lying on the grass, looking up at the blue sky and white clouds, enjoying a rare moment of tranquility in the city. There are active teenagers, are running on the path around the lake, or riding a bicycle, there are couples leisurely stroll humming, enough to see the tourists, out of the park, see a piece of open green space, where there is a stone statue.
This is called "Brazilian pioneers" sculpture stone body group, is one of the famous attractions of Sao Paulo, is to commemorate the history of Brazilian settlement and development. Let us take a good look at the significance of this group of statues: stone statue of the first, is the two Mercedes-like high head horse, riding a horse chest and head to lead the crowd forward, the other looked back at the team, as if they want to work hard to move forward, do not lag behind. After the horse is a group of pioneers holding a variety of tools, old and young, men and women, there are a variety of skin colors, the first row is the face of the Asians, behind the Europeans have white and black faces, but also wear white hats in the Middle East Arabs, as well as carrying babies of women, women dressed in casual labor clothes, men are naked, we all work together in unison with the same pace of the ropes binding the boulder to move forward. The whole group sculpture of lifelike characters, fully demonstrated the perseverance of the pioneers of the spirit of unity and cooperation, the best, so that I was moved, silent to this group of pioneering heroes bowed in homage.
This is more than ten kilometers to the west is the Iberian Palace Museum, also known as the Museum of Independence and History, or St. Paul Museum. Formerly known as the Museum of Natural Sciences, was originally a palace, the palace was built in 1885, completed in 1890, was designed by the Italian architect Tomaso Bess, built a European Renaissance color steady and elegant palace, the palace appearance of the earthy yellow rectangle of three floors, the Palace Gardens covers an area of 15,000 square meters, is imitated in the style of the period of the French Baguioque, the same as the Palace of Versailles, Paris. Garden. This palace was changed to the current Iberian Palace Museum in 1895. When you enter the museum, you will see the largest meteorite in the world on display in the hall. The museum has a collection of many fine art from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, there are Brazilian imperial era of royal supplies, Brazilian historical figures, such as knights and explorers and the emperor all the art, antique furniture and daily necessities, etc., as well as a large number of Brazilian historical artifacts, such as statues and oil paintings tableware, jewelry, weapons, religious vessels artifacts, as well as an old automobile, as well as the aboriginal people's daily utensils and so on a wide range of. It's a sight to behold. Opposite the palace is Independence Square. The origin of September 7, 1822, the Brazilian Regent Emperor Pedro I, from the city of Santo return to S?o Paulo, resting in the Ibiranca Creek, received the Portuguese Emperor to return to Portugal's decree, the guards around him encouraged him not to go back, stay in Brazil as the emperor, Pedro will comply with the wishes of the people, set aside a longsword pointing to the sky and swearing that "not independence, rather than death," instantly The independence was declared instantly. After Brazil's independence from Portugal, this day was designated as a national day, and in this small river built a palace, which was later changed to today's Ibiran?a Palace Museum. In the museum in front of the Independence Square, towering a monument to independence, monument height of ten meters, the monument figures statues, is to commemorate the contribution of Brazil's independence for the King Pedro I and other meritorious celebrities and so on.
On both sides of the Monument to Independence, is the War of Independence statues, the top of the monument carved when Pedro I rode a warhorse holding a longsword high command to the Rio march to proclaim the image of independence, next to the group of officers responded to the support. In front of the monument, there is a bronze fire pit shaped like our country's ancient sacrificial tripod, the basin of the sacred fire will never go out, symbolizing peace and freedom, there is a basement underneath the pedestal, placed in King Pedro I and the Queen's burial mound.
The S?o Paulo Butantan Viper Institute, built in 1901, is the most famous in the world, specializing in the study of snake life and the manufacture of antivenom, and the garden houses more than 2,000 kinds of tens of thousands of venomous snakes. Over the past hundred years it has grown to become the world's largest center for the production of vaccines and serums. There are three exhibition halls to visit, the first hall exhibits more than 100 kinds of live specimens of snakes, the second hall is the extraction of snake venom to study the process of manufacturing serum, the third hall exhibits the development of the relevant research institutes, in addition to a venomous snake breeding grounds built next to the ticket booths, about 50 meters long and 30 meters wide within the breeding ground is divided into three compartments, the center there is a water ditch, surrounded by a meter-high red brick It is surrounded by a one-meter-high red brick paddock with a one-meter-high glass paddock to prevent venomous snakes from escaping. Visitors can watch the snakes move around the field from outside the wall. It is said that in the past, there were more than 2,000 kinds of snakes here, more than 20,000 snakes, and the grass and small trees were covered with colorful snakes of all sizes, which was a marvelous sight. But I had two years ago in the winter deliberately went to a visit, the field has been empty without the shadow of the snake, I do not know why, by asking no one knows. At the same time we saw five or six holes on the grassy slopes before and after, about half a meter high dome mound, which is feeding a snake called "Misu Rona" nest, this snake is very special, specializing in eating snakes snake, it is said that it is small but can swallow three vipers at a time, it is surprising, but we saw just a few mounds, no snake! The shadow of the snake.
This research institute has more than twenty buildings, staffed by more than two hundred people, the magnificent vaccine plant has 25,000 square meters, the annual output of 285 million serum, the production of a variety of vaccines 25 million, the world's largest. Every day, the staff extracted poisonous snakes sent to the laboratory for inspection, filtering and drying made of injections into the horse, and then extracted horse blood refining, refining a variety of antivenom specialized in the treatment of snake bites, this serum also treats smallpox, diphtheria, bubonic plague, whooping cough and tetanus and other diseases. In addition to raising snakes, this institute also raises all kinds of poisonous spiders and toads. The institute has tens of thousands of books on venomous snakes and a small hospital with many beds.
S?o Paulo in addition to Brazil's industrial and commercial center, or the center of Brazil's education and culture, Brazil's famous University of S?o Paulo and Catholic University, as well as a variety of scientific and technological institutions are located in S?o Paulo. There are many cultural and entertainment venues in the city, there are nearly five hundred libraries, more than seventy art galleries, again S?o Paulo Park has more than 30,000 varieties of orchids, world-famous, when the blooming season, colorful orchids, fragrant. There is also the annual flower show in Holland Village, which is the most lively season in S?o Paulo, with an endless stream of visitors. However, although S?o Paulo is beautiful, but Brazil is still struggling on the poverty line, everywhere you look at the slums, the failure of law and order, incompetent health care system, education is not universal, bureaucratic greed and malfeasance, although the governance reforms have begun, but I see that Brazil still has a long way to go.