IBIRAPUERA AND OTHER PARKS IN SÃO PAULO

If you ask someone in São Paulo which is the best park in town, you will probably hear the name Ibirapuera (the weird name comes from the original indigenous language and means ‘rotten wood’).

So yes, Ibirapuera is one of the largest parks in São Paulo, and it was chosen the 8^th best park in the world by a recent survey conducted by Tripadvisor. SEE MAP
 

Aerial view of the park

Practical info:

The park is open from 5am to midnight.

Pedestrians may get into the park via gates 2, 3, 4, 6, 7A and 10.

 

The park is home to several museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Afro Brazilian Museum; it also owns two major exhibition spaces, the OCA and the Bienal Building. The park has a large lake, a plant nursery and an auditorium, designed by Oscar Niemeyer (as many other of its buildings) where concerts are held regularly.

Ok, so let’s say you want to go there… unless you are staying nearby, there are no subway stations nearby and it’s not within easy reach from the center of São Paulo. The best suggestion is to take a bus. Check on this website the bus lines (numbers and names)  that get to the park, and see which one runs next to where you are: http://www.parqueibirapuera.org/como-chegar/

Other nice parks in São Paulo are:

- Parque Trianon – easy to reach, in front of the Trianon/MASP subway station, right on Avenida Paulista

- Parque da Água Branca – near the Barra Funda subway station/bus terminal


- Parque da Juventude – near the Carandiru subway station, the park occasionally hosts music concerts

- Parque do Povo and Parque Villa Lobos – reachable by train using Line 9 – Esmeralda –