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Timeline Of São Paulo
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Prior to 20th century * 1554 – Jesuit Pátio do Colégio founded in São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga. * 1560 – Municipal Chamber of São Paulo founded. * 1681 – Seat of Portuguese colonial Captaincy of São Vicente relocated to São Paulo from São Vicente. * 1710 – São Paulo becomes capital o * 1720 – São Paulo becomes capital of . * 1745 – Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo, Catholic Diocese of São Paulo established. * 1822 – São Paulo becomes part of the Empire of Brazil. * 1827 – Faculdade de Direito do Largo de São Francisco, oldest Law School in Brazil, founded. * 1831 – São Paulo Municipal Imperial Guard established. * 1836 – Irmandade da Nossa Senhora dos Remedios (religious society) founded. * 1854 – ' newspaper begins publication. * 1858 – Cemitério da Consolação established. * 1867 – São Paulo Railway begins operating. * 1871 – American S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city proper in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the world's 4th largest city proper by population. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Jundiaí, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos) created the São Paulo Macrometr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colégio Visconde De Porto Seguro
Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro (often referred to as "Porto Seguro" or "CVPS", formerly named "Deutsche Schule" (''German School'')) is a private bilingual school located in the neighborhood of Morumbi, in São Paulo, Brazil. The school was founded in 1878 by German immigrants, who wished a school in which their children could learn about German culture, without losing the connection with Brazil. It was elected by ''Veja'' magazine as the best school of São Paulo. Nowadays, the school has several other related units. Its main unit had the 149th best national performance at the 2014 ENEM in a ranking of 15640; the Panamby unit was ranked at 236 and the Valinhos unit had the 67th best performance. History The school was founded on September 22, 1878, as "Deutsche Schule", located in a rented building at Florêncio de Abreu Street, in downtown São Paulo. D. Pedro II visited the school in 1886. In 1913, the school moved to its own building at the Olinda Street, present day Praç ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carandiru Penitentiary
Carandiru Penitentiary, officially São Paulo House of Detention (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Casa de Detenção de São Paulo'') was a prison located in São Paulo, Brazil. The prison was designed and built by Samuel das Neves in 1920, when it was considered a model-prison to meet the new demands of the 1890 criminal code. It was operational from 1956 to 2002 and, at its peak, was South America, South America's largest penitentiary, housing over 8,000 inmates. In 1992 it was the site of the Carandiru massacre. It was demolished in 2002. Drauzio Varella, a noted Brazilian physician, volunteered as an unpaid physician in Carandiru from 1989 to 2001, in particular to address its AIDS epidemic. He wrote a book, ''Estação Carandiru'' ( en, Carandiru Station), describing his own experiences there and the dreadful conditions of the inmates. The book was later made into a movie (''Carandiru (film), Carandiru'', directed by Hector Babenco), and both were highly regarded by criti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nacional Atlético Clube (SP)
Nacional Atlético Clube, commonly referred to as Nacional, is a Brazilian football team based in São Paulo, in the district of Barra Funda. The team competes in the Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão, the fourth tier of the São Paulo state football league. Nacional was founded on 16 February 1919 as an association football club by employees of the British owned São Paulo Railway Company as São Paulo Railway Athletic Club, changing its name in 1946 when the Fourth Brazilian Republic was established and it nationalized the railways. The club is also known as ''NAC,'' ''Naça'' and ''Ferroviário'' ("Rail"), and its mascot is a locomotive. Since 1975, the club focuses on youth programs for football, volleyball, futsal, boxing, basketball, and button football, with a senior football team that has usually been relegated to the lower tiers of the São Paulo state football league system. A traditional rivalry existed with Juventus, in the nearby Mooca district of São Paulo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (), commonly known as Palmeiras, is a Brazilian professional football club based in the city of São Paulo, in the district of Perdizes. Palmeiras is one of the most popular clubs in South America, with around 18 million supporters and more than 80,000 affiliated fans. Despite being primarily a football club, Palmeiras competes in a number of different sports. The football team plays in the Campeonato Paulista, the state of São Paulo's premier state league, as well as in the Brasileirão Série A, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system. Palmeiras was founded by Italian immigrants in 1914, as "Palestra Itália" (). However, the club changed its name on 14 September 1942, as a result of Brazil joining the Allies in the Second World War against Italy ("Itália" in Portuguese) and the Axis powers. Since then, Palmeiras has won 15 top-tier national competitions, including a record 11 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, 4 Copas do Brasil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatro Municipal (São Paulo)
Municipal Theatre of São Paulo is a theatre in São Paulo, Brazil. It is regarded as one of the landmarks of the city, significant both for its architectural value as well as for its historical importance, having been the venue for the Week of Modern Art in 1922, which revolutionised the arts in Brazil. The building now houses the São Paulo Municipal Symphonic Orchestra, the ''Coral Lírico'' (Lyric Choir) and the City Ballet of São Paulo. History Design, construction and inauguration The idea of building a representative theatre for the city of São Paulo was inspired by its increasing importance on the international stage. From the beginning of 20th century it was inhabited by the Brazilian bourgeoisie, of which a great part was involved in the business of coffee farming. The city had also quite a large Italian population. So far, the city could only rely on the Teatro São José, which after a fire was no longer suitable for large foreign productions, and more modest theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista () is a Brazilian sports club based in the Tatuapé district of São Paulo. Although competing in a number of different sports, Corinthians is mostly known for its professional association football team that plays in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top tier of the Brazilian football, as well as in the Campeonato Paulista Série A1, the first division of the traditional in-state competition. Founded in 1910 by five railway workers inspired by the London-based Corinthian Football Club, Corinthians has become one of the most successful Brazilian clubs, having won the national title seven times, in addition to three Copa do Brasil trophies, one Supercopa do Brasil and a record 30 São Paulo State championships. On the international stage, the club won the inaugural FIFA Club World Championship in 2000, winning it for the second time in 2012 after being crowned Copa Libertadores de América champions for the first time that same year. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservatório Dramático E Musical De São Paulo
The Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo (Musical and Dramatic Conservatory of São Paulo) was a conservatory for students of music in São Paulo, Brazil. The Conservatory was founded on February 15, 1906, and inaugurated officially on March 12 of that year. In 1909 it moved to its last location on Avenida São João, downtown. Between 1981 and 1983 the building was renovated. One of many post-secondary music schools in São Paulo, the Conservatory i was known chiefly for its library of musical and dramatic scholarship, and its most famous alumnus, poet and musicologist Mário de Andrade, who studied piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ... and taught there for much of his life. In 2009, due to many financial problems, the conservatory was closed. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luz Station
The Luz Station ( pt, Estação da Luz, ) is a railway station in the Luz neighbourhood in São Paulo, Brazil. The station is part of the metropolitan rail system run by the CPTM. The station houses the Museum of the Portuguese Language, established in 2006. The Luz Metro station is also located within the complex. History The station was built in the late 19th century with the purpose of being the headquarters of the newly founded São Paulo Railway. In the first decades of the 20th century, it was the main entrance to the city, a fact that gave it a major economic relevance, because the majority of the coffee from Santos was delivered in the station, along with the imported supplies. The current building was finished in 1901. The materials for its construction were brought from UK. The station was designed and produced by Walter Macfarlane & Co. Saracen Foundry, Glasgow. The station was assembled in Glasgow, then disassembled and sent to São Paulo where it was reassemble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itaú Cultural
Instituto Itaú Cultural is a Brazilian not-for-profit cultural institute owned by Itaú Unibanco Banco Itaú Unibanco S.A. is a Brazilian financial services company headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. Itaú Unibanco was formed through the merger of Banco Itaú and Unibanco in 2008. It is the largest banking institution in Brazil, as well a .... The institute was founded by Olavo Egydio Setúbal and created under the Law nº 7505, of 3 October 1986. The institute's goal is to map artistic manifestations and to foster artistic research and production related to all cultural sections. Itaú Cultural holds the program ''Rumos'' for cultural research, cataloguing manifestations in visual arts, film, dance, literature, theater, and music, among others. It also organizes the Emoção Art.ficial biennial of art and technology and the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural online encyclopedia. History Itaú Cultural Institute was founded in 1987 under the name Centro de Informática e Cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paróquia São José Do Belém
Paróquia São José do Belém is a church located in São Paulo, Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area .... It was established on 14 July 1897. References Churches in São Paulo Roman Catholic churches completed in 1897 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Brazil {{RC-church-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capela De Santa Cruz (São Paulo)
Capela de Santa Cruz is a church located in São Paulo, Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area .... It was completed in 1895. References Roman Catholic churches in São Paulo Churches completed in 1895 {{Brazil-church-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
