São Paulo

The culture

Why we bridge here

São Paulo is a city of twenty million people and no beaches: instead it has museums, the best restaurant scene in South America, immigrant neighbourhoods and a street-art culture that covers whole blocks.

São Paulo was built by immigrants — Italian, Japanese, Lebanese, Bolivian and Northeastern Brazilian families — and each left a neighbourhood and a kitchen behind. There are more Japanese-descended people in this city than in any city outside Japan.