Some of my dear friends from Rio enjoy to think that São Paulo is like New York. I disagree with them. Sao Paulo just does not know the city (Sao Paulo) quite well. Or rather, who knows the surface and imagine that Sao Paulo is only a huge Rua Oscar Freire.
In fact, the great fascination of St. Paul is to resemble many cities at the same time and, therefore, does not resemble any. São Paulo, among many other similarities, it looks like Paris in the Largo Arouche, Salvador in
Brás Station, Tokyo in Liberty, Rome around the Teatro Municipal, Munich in Santo Amaro, Lisbon is at Pari, with the Soho London in
Vila Madalena and the Olinda/Pernambuco in the Freguesia do Ó.
Sao Paulo is a sum of qualities and faults, joys and sorrows, celebrations and tragedies. It has luxury hotels, as the Fasano and Emiliano L'Hotel, but there are people sleeping under bridges. It has gorgeous sunset at Alto de Pinheiros lush vegetation Cantareira but also has the most polluted air in the country.
We have concerts by the Rolling Stones and U2, but also we also have memorable's humans accidents as the crater of the subway and the TAM airplane at Congonhas.
São Paulo is always amazing. A group of half a dozen citizen from Sao Paulo actually means: one Italian, one Japanese, one from Bahia, one Chinese, one German and one Curitiba.
Sao Paulo is really curious. For example, have several large soccer teams: one of which bears the name of the city itself and earned the nickname 'the most wanted'. But in fact, the largest and most one is the Corinthians, which has the English name, is close to the Portuguese Stadium and was founded by Italians, just like your enemy, Palmeiras.
St. Paul was born of the holy Jesuit priests in 1554 but reached 2007 with the permissive celebrity Oscar Maroni, of the famous Bahamas (nightclub with permissive activies). St. Paul has been called 'the grave of the samba by Vinicius de Moraes - but Adoniran Barbosa, Paulo Vanzolini and Mathias have not proved true, and despite the slight lack of elegance of the Sao Paulo's girls, correctly recorded by Caetano Veloso (citation of Sampa - the song), produced fancy ladies as Dener Pamplona Abreu and Gloria Kalil.
In St. Paul makes the best pizzas than Naples, best sushi than the Tokyo Lagareira better than Lisbon and street's pastels fair better than those of Paris, because in Paris there are not such delicious, rather in the streets.
Sometimes, St. Paul thinks it's super great! Sometimes, St. Paul thinks is horror!
(...) - W. Olivetto is from Sao Paulo city, Sao Paulo state and a succesful marketing.
PS: It is just the first part, I will translate the second part when I missed the city again.
