Thursday, October 15, 2020

Sao Paulo

When St. Paul, the apostle in the Bible, was aboard a ship that was hindered by a storm, as described toward the end of the Acts of the Apostles, could he have imagined that someday, several centuries on, the Roman Empire would fragment, and it's Latin language would develop into a number of different languages? One of those new languages, on the far western fringe of the Roman Empire, where Paul would never visit, would be called Portuguese.

Far in the distant future, a Portuguese ship would be trying to sail eastward, to the other side of the world. But the ship would be knocked off course by a storm, much like the one that was afflicting the ship that Paul was on. The ship would lose it's way, and drift westward, until it encountered a vast continent that had previously been unknown. (It is nor known with certainty whether Brazil was discovered accidentally or not).

A Portuguese-speaking settlement would be founded on the new continent. A great city would grow up there that was just about the largest city in the world, and the city would be named for St. Paul.

Sao Paulo, Portuguese for St, Paul, was originally based on trade in gold, then sugar cane, then coffee. Now, it is the financial center of Brazil. The name of the city comes from a mission named for St. Paul.

It was the destination of great numbers of immigrants. The local dialect of Portuguese has been affected by the Italian spoken by so many new arrivals. There is the largest Japanese community, outside of Japan. Sao Paulo is believed to be the largest city in the western hemisphere, and also the southern hemisphere.

The following scenes are of Iberapuera Park, in Sao Paulo. The stone monument of a large number of people are of the Bandeiras, the early Portuguese settlers and adventurers who went from coastal Sao Paulo deep into Brazil's interior in search of wealth. The obelisk monument is to celebrate a one-time uprising of Sao Paulo, against the government of Brazil. This uprising might be thought of as a Brazilian version of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, but which did not overthrow the government. Like Mexico Brazil was an empire, rather than a democracy, after gaining independence, but for a lot longer than Mexico.

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The Cathedral of Sao Paulo was built where the original settlement that became Sao Paulo began.

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This is Paulista Avenue, the financial center of Sao Paulo, and the surrounding area.

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Here is the Bela Vista neighborhood.

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Here is the Jardins neighborhood, to the north of Iberapuera Park. Sao Paulo is known to be a very expensive city.

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The center of Sao Paulo is wealthy but, as in Rio de Janeiro, there are areas that are not as wealthy.

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Here is the neighborhood known as Ipiranga.

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Moving further from the city center, this area of northeastern Sao Paulo is known as Guarulhos.


Toward the south of this vast city is the area of San Bernardo Do Campo.


This western part of the city is called Osasco.


To the northwest of Sao Paulo is the city of Campinas. This is a residential neighborhood in Campinas.

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