AVENIDA PAULISTA - MASP

Travel guides will surely tell you this is the most important museum in São Paulo, etc. etc. If you're not that into the arts, it is still worth a visit to the area:

- See the cutting-edge architecture of the museum, supported by columns over a 74-meter freestanding space. This area is famous as a location for every kind of protests and public demonstrations.

- On Sundays, an antiques market is held under the museum.

- If you are not interested in the collection, you may check if the auditorium is holding some musical performance, they are usually free.

- You may also try UNI, a restaurant located in the basement of the museum (entrance through stairs leading underground, same way to the auditorium). Fixed price buffet: R$ 32,30 (Mon to Sat) and R$ 35,00 (Sundays).

- Right behind the museum, on R. Carlos Comenale, 97, you’ll find one of the noisiest bars in town, Bar Opção. If you want to see and mingle with locals, it’s a nice suggestion. Or maybe you just want to see how noisy a bar can get around here…

- Right across the street, there’s a nice park, called Parque Trianon (just don’t venture inside after dark). On the sidewalk, on Sundays, a crafts market is held.

SUBWAY STATION - Trianon, on the Green Line
or take any bus running along Avenida Paulista, and get off right in front of Parque Trianon (southward buses) or on the block after the museum (westward buses).