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Tourism in Brazil- Have you ever heard about São Paulo?

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It is common for tourists in Brazil to go to places like Rio de Janeiro, Bahia (Northeast beaches) or the Amazon. Tourists and foreigners usually think Brazil is just a land of rainforests and paradisiac beaches but they don ´t suspect that there is a strong urban life in Brazil as in Europe or the USA. #169205655 / gettyimages.com The 2014 World Cup showed foreigners that Brazil is big and diverse. I ´d like to talk about one of this exciting urban places: São Paulo city. São Paulo is the home of many nationalities, mainly Italians, that in the XIX century came to work on coffee farms in the countryside. But not just Italians adopted São Paulo as a home, the Japanese, the Germans, the Dutch and other people from all around the world became São Paulo ´s citizens. This miscegenation changed the city way. Today São Paulo is Brazil ´s capital of gastronomy, economy, culture and diversity (pay attention: Brazil ´s official capital is Brasília, not São Paulo or Buenos Aires,