Tower sights in Brazil
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Banespa Skyscraper
For one of Sampa's best panoramas, head to the top of the Banespa skyscraper, Brazil's version of the Empire State Building, completed in 1939. Ride free to the observation deck on the top floor for views of the city. Note, you will need some form of ID to sign in.
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Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima
Extra-wide Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima (called just 'Faria Lima') marks the southwestern edge of the Jardins neighborhoods, and is the main corridor connecting Pinheiros with the ritzy neighborhoods of Morumbi, Vila Olímpia, Itaim Bibi and Moema. These areas are largely congested streets, forbidding luxury high-rises and glittering complexes that house the majority of the city's most-profitable businesses, from banking to technology.
That said, there are plenty of fine restaurants, nightclubs and shopping opportunities that die-hards may want to seek out. Unfortunately, poor public transport makes a taxi or your own vehicle a necessity.
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Edifício Itália
With 46 stories, this skyscraper just south of Praça da República is the tallest in the city center. Its top-floor restaurant offers some of the best, most sweeping views of São Paulo, though prices are high and the food nothing flash. Strictly speaking, you're supposed to be a customer to go there; if you're not, act like one!
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TV Tower
The 75m-high observation deck of the TV Tower is the second-best place to get a bird's-eye view of the city (after a helicopter ride), but it's still not tall enough to really get a sense of the city's airplane design. That's not a favela at its base; a handicrafts fair runs on weekends and holidays.
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Edifício Martinelli
Just west of BOVESPA rises the 35-story Edifício Martinelli, São Paulo's first skyscraper. The soaring 1929 Beaux Arts structure seems to have been imported wholesale from turn-of-the-20th-century Manhattan. The building doesn't accept visitors.
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Mirante
The 250m-high Mirante is a tall tower with a circular staircase and a 360-degree panorama.
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