Thanks to the Clean City law of , billboards and other forms of public advertising are illegal within the city limits, with vast street art murals taking their place. The city has four main soccer stadiums, including the state-of-the-art Allianz Parque and Arena Corinthians, the massive Morumbi Stadium and the beautiful municipal Pacaembu Stadium. While people from Rio de Janeiro may not take kindly to this statement, the city is home to an accent that many Brazilians find grating.
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Inside are large collections of costumes, decorative arts, paintings, and furniture of the Imperial Period. The neo-Gothic cathedral was built on the site of an earlier cathedral and took from to to complete.
Its building was interrupted by two world wars, which made it difficult to get the mosaics and other decorative elements from Italy. Although the rest of the church is neo-Gothic, it is capped by a Renaissance-style dome. The interior has several interesting features, including the 10,pipe organ and stained glass windows picturing the history of Catholicism in Brazil.
Be sure to notice the capitals on the columns, carved to represent Brazilian flora branches of coffee and pineapples and fauna, including armadillos. You can tour the crypt below the main church to see marble sculptures and tombs. The attractive plaza is now occupied by the Historical Museum, a museum of sacred art, and the Capela de Anchieta.
All that remains of the 16th-century building are the doors and a stretch of clay wall. The Benedictine monastery and its church were founded in the late 16th century, but the current church dates only from Don't discount it for its modern origin or its rather austere exterior, as the interior is richly painted and includes 17th-century statues of St.
Benedict and St. Scholastica carved by Agostinho de Jesus. A number of other notable Benedictine artists contributed to the decoration of the monastery. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp. Die Metropolisierung der Erde. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
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According to the principles of global competition and neo-liberalism, the present socio-economic development will benefit only special groups in limited regions who gain wealth and succeed in maintaining this situation for a certain time.
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