SESC Paulista

São Paulo


This 2018 cultural addition to Av Paulista offers the best free view you're going to get of the country's most important avenue: the 17th floor terrace boasts panoramic 360° vistas straight down the belly of the beast.

Elsewhere on various floors, rotating cutting-edge audiovisual and tech-leaning art exhibitions are also worth a gander, but it's really all about the view.


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