Explore Favela Paraisópolis: Meet local artists, savor homemade food, and witness inspiring community projects. Discover the vibrant culture of São Paulo’s second largest favela.
- Paraisopolis - Our tour starts at the main headquarters G10 (a help and job training center for the residents of the community, after that, we will meet the famous artist “Berbella”, who works with leftover materials from cars and motorcycles, we stop for lunch and we’ll eat at the residents’ association, after lunch we’ll go to the home of Senhor Estevão’s family, known as “Brazilian Gaudi”, his house was built with the inspiration of the artist and architect Antoni Gaudí from Spain and the most impressive thing is that Senhor Estevão had never heard of Gaudi, only after artists, architects and journalists from Spain recognized the similarity of his house, Mr Estevão got to know Gaudi’s works and to finish (if we have time), we can go to see the Ballet de Paraisópolis.
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Accredited Tour Guide
- Lunch
Come and discover the second largest favela in São Paulo with approximately 120,000,000 inhabitants. Favela Paraisópolis is a model favela in Brazil. On this tour we will visit local artists and residents such as Mr Estevão, known as the Gaudi of Brazil, Mr Berbella who makes art with leftover car and bicycle parts, in addition to going to meet the Paraisópolis Residents Association, also at lunch time we can stop for lunch with homemade food made by the residents and cooks of the “mãos de Maria” project, a project that helped a lot of people during the pandemic, depending on the day and time we were also able to visit the Paraisópolis ballet, where children from the favela with a lot of effort started their activities as dancers.
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