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This is a school

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Ipê is a club where you can swim, sunbathe and play a lot of sports like soccer, tennis, volleyball, handball and basketball.
I go there every week to meet friends and on weekends I usually eat there, on the restaurant.

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It is a park, where you can relax hearing the sound of the birds, ride a bike, walk and do cooper. There are soccer fields and basketball quarters that you can use to play soccer and basketball.

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The Ibirapuera Mall is the largest mall in Sao Paulo. There are a lot of stores, libraries, cafes and a variety of restaurants.

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This is an ice-cream shop where you can find unusual flavours of ice-cream like for instance, strudel, honey cookies, alfajores. It's delicious!

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The city's Marco Zero ("zero milestone") is located at Praça da Sé, indicating the directions of the states that share boundaries with São Paulo and from where the distance of any point in the state starts being counted. Catedral Metropolitana da Sé (Sé Metropolitan Cathedral) is located there. The square has a gothic style, started being built in 1913 and it was completed only four decades later.

With a height and width of 11 meters and 46 meters, respectively, 92-meter high towers, a 30-meter high dome, and a capacity for 8,000 people, it is the biggest church in São Paulo. In its crypt, which can be considered an underground church, there are sculptures by Francisco Leopoldo.http://www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/ingles/saopaulo/turismo/cap_ptos_pca_se.htm

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Rua Boa Vista, next to Praça da Sé.

In 1554, after an expedition, priest Anchieta decided to build a place to accommodate Brazilian native indians and to be used as a school to teach religious subjects to them. That was how the city of São Paulo was founded. Today, the place is home to Museu de Anchieta (Anchieta Museum).
http://www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/ingles/saopaulo/turismo/cap_ptos_pateo.htm

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Largo de São Bento used to be home to the indian village of the tribal chief Tibiriça, João Ramalho's father-in-law, and demarcated the limits of the village. The indian village was replaced by a "largo" (a kind of plaza) where, in 1598, a chapel in honor of Nossa Senhora de Montserrat was built. In 1660, Mosteiro de São Bento (São Bento Monastery) started being built there.

The church was called Nossa Senhora da Assunção - it has this same name up to now -, but it is widely known as Igreja de São Bento (São Bento Church). In 1650, the explorer Fernão Dias donated a substantial amount of money to be used to restore and enlarge the monastery. His ashes are kept there. In 1864, the "largo" was urbanized. Because it was next to the city's largest hotels, it used to be a very busy and crowded place.

The old monastery and the church were demolished in 1910 and, in 1911, a new building started being built there, completed in 1922. Later, during the 70's, a subway station was built (São Bento), and together with it, the "largo" got new pavement, benches and gardens. Every Sunday, at 10 a.m., a mass is held an the monastery, together with a choral singing beautiful Gregorian songs.
http://www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/ingles/saopaulo/turismo/cap_ptos_lgo_sbent.htm

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It is home to the College of Law of University of São Paulo USP), the only one far from the university's campus - 20 kilometers, which did not change place due to a request made by the students. Important and famous people who are part of our history either graduated or studied there.

Due to its architecture, in the form of arches, it is also called "Arcadas".
http://www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/ingles/saopaulo/turismo/cap_ptos_lgo_sfran.htm

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Edifício Itália (Itália Building), built in 1956, has been the city's highest building for a long time. It was named Itália in honor of the Italians who helped build the city.

Its 45th floor is home to Terraço Itália, a famous restaurant from where it is possible to admire one of the city's most beautiful views.
http://www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/ingles/saopaulo/turismo/cap_ptos_italia.htm

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Edifício Copan (Copan Building) is on its own an important tourist attraction and one of the city's most famous postcards. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, it is the city's largest armed concrete structure. It has 6 blocks with 1160 apartments and a mini-mall at the ground floor. Its S-shaped architecture stands out. It has two entrances, one at Avenida São Luís 130/140 and another one, at Avenida Ipiranga 200.
http://www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/ingles/saopaulo/turismo/cap_ptos_copan.htm

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This subway station is located in the "basement" of Praça da Sé ("Sé Square"). It is the biggest and most important station of São Paulo's subway system. It has three floors and it is there that the North-South and East-West lines meet, reason why it is also the most crowded one since it is where people change trains.

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Viaduto Santa Efigênia was opened in 1913 and built with a shaped metal structure brought from Belgium. It links Largo de São Bento with Santa Ifigênia neighborhood. In 1978, the viaduct was restored using pieces manufactured by the same Belgian company that had built it before and, in 1982, it was painted with the colors of a rainbow.
http://www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/ingles/saopaulo/turismo/cap_ptos_viad_ifigen.htm