Sao Paulo

The exhibition shows the importance of African culture in Brazil, from the time of slavery to the present day, through very diverse pieces. — Michelin Guide

does full justice to the masterpieces of Brazilian art from the 19C to the present day. — Michelin Guide

The city's first grocery market, this huge 1928 neo-baroque-style building is the quintessential hot spot for gourmets and food lovers. — Fodor's

The Páteo do Colégio, which is laden with history, brings us back to the origins of the city. The building is nothing other than the former Jesuit college. — Michelin Guide

Founded in 1905, the Pinacoteca is not only the oldest museum in Brazil, but it's also one of São Paulo's finest art museums, specializing in Brazilian art from the 19th century to the present day. — Frommer's

Sampa’s pride, this museum possesses Latin America’s most comprehensive collection of Western art. — Lonely Planet

This fine museum, the best of three belonging to Universidade de São Paulo's Museu de Arte Contemporânea, is housed in the Oscar Niemeyer–designed former Department of Motor Vehicles. — Lonely Planet

Brazil’s oldest modern-art museum possesses a fine permanent collection of Brazilian modernists such as Anita Malfatti and Di Cavalcanti, as well as works by Miró, Chagall, Picasso and Dufy. — Lonely Planet

Crowning the Praça da Sé is the domed Catedral da Sé, a huge neo-Byzantine concoction that, for better or worse, replaced the original 18th-century structure in the 1920s. — Lonely Planet

This small but charming museum is dedicated to architecture and design and offers a hodgepodge collection of Brazilian furnishings from the 17th to the 20th centuries. — Lonely Planet

The Auditório Ibirapuera, Saõ Paulo's Art Modern Museum is a surprising red and white edifice that seems to rise straight out of the ground. — Michelin Guide

The setting is glorious, in the soaring main hall of a grand railway station that's found a second life as a cultural center. — Frommer's

Easily São Paulo's most beautiful and haunting house of worship, São Bento Monastery dates back to 1598 (though its neo-Gothic facade is purely 20th century). — Afar Magazine

To the west of São Paulo, the Vila Madalena district has become the heart of the city's bohemian population of artists and intelligentsia. — Michelin Guide

Housed in a classic mansion in the style of the coffee barons, this cultural center was originally built in 1928 by Ramos de Azevedo, the ‘starchitect’ of his era. — Lonely Planet

The greenhouse-size skylight of this cultural center's 1901 neoclassical home makes the modern and contemporary art exhibits here seem almost to sprout organically. — Fodor's