São Paulo, with a metro population of over 21 million people is Brazil's largest city. As a travel destination it is very underrated - but definitely worth the effort.

By using the services of a local, personal tour guide you'll find the most interesting parts of São Paulo - those places that only locals know about.

Your private tour guide in São Paulo is keen to show you its diverse neighborhoods, world-class restaurants and cultural charms so you'll see the best the city has to offer. And be sure to check out the diversity of the city's nightlife which is as intense as it gets.

Choose from the São Paulo tours offered by <b>ToursByLocals</b>, but feel free to suggest alternative places and activities. Your private tour can be customized by your personal guide to include exactly what you want to see and do in São Paulo.

Sao-Paulo

Sao Paulo is massive!

A huge range of tourist attractions will be at our disposal.

And the most suitable are the Historical Center (Pateo do Collegio, Se Cathedral, Martinelli Building, Sao Bento Monastery, and Teatro Municipal Market, among others), along the Avenida Paulista, in Ibirapuera Park and Vila Madalena. The "Soccer Museum" can be another choice.

Several dining options can complement our tour.

Experience the highlights and popular attractions

Six-Hour City Tour of São Paulo

São Paulo is the epicenter of Brazil's cultural life. The city offers a never-ending range of options for restaurants, venues, museums, sightseeing, events, activities and even nature. With more than 12 million people living in the city, and almost 20 million in the metropolitan area, São Paulo is nothing less than the largest metropolis in the Southern hemisphere of the planet and is a unique place in many different ways.

Its contrasts between the Atlantic Forest and the city; the heritage of the golden years of the coffee period, when São Paulo was the main producer in the world and the grain was the most important product in the world's economy; the artistic legacy of the modernists from São Paulo, that can be seen in the architecture of the city and in the arts inside the museums; and the cosmopolitan diversity of the city, comprising the largest Japanese community outside Japan, a huge Italian community that influenced even the accent of the people from São Paulo, Bolivians, Koreans and more!

Enjoy the highlights and discover the diverse cultures in Sao Paulo

Six-Hour Tour in São Paulo

This tour is perfect for those who want to explore the city with comfort and safety. The goal is to visit the main attractions of the city. Whether you have a lot of time or just a little, we can plan the best experience and explore accordingly.





Places to see in São Paulo in one day

 São Paulo's Must see Trip

A Nice Overview of Sao Paulo with a Local Guide

Come join me in this tour and let's visit together several parts of the city of Sao Paulo. With only 20 million inhabitants and 24-hour constant movement, the city is full of contrasts and I will share them all with you.

We will visit several diverse places and spots - from the Historic Center to the contemporary and modern neighborhoods filled with many and lovely green areas and then another neighborhoods, in contrast, with a lot of graffiti art.

During this six hours, we will be able to taste the local food, such as cheese bread with coffee or a pastel (pastry) with sugarcane juice if you have a sweet tooth! We will find all of these at the many fairs that exist around the city.

If you are looking for something more specific, it's also possible to do that. Contact me so I can make sure to accommodate your request.

View of Monumento das Bandeiras from Ibirapuera Park

View of a part of Ibirapuera Park from MAC ( Contemporary Art Museum

View of a bar and restaurant at Batman Alley

6-hour Tour of the City full of highlights

A Panoramic Overview of The City

Four-Hour Highlights Tour in São Paulo

With pick up and drop off in the International airport of Sao Paulo GRU (city of Guarulhos).

A huge range of tourist attractions will be at our disposal.

And the most suitable are the Historical Center (Pateo do Collegio, Se Cathedral, Martinelli Building, Sao Bento Monastery, and Teatro Municipal Market, among others), along the Avenida Paulista, in Ibirapuera Park and Vila Madalena. The "Soccer Museum" can be another choice.

Several dining options can complement our tour.

The best way to start your trip in Brazil or South America!

Guarulhos Airport Layover City Tour in São Paulo

Ibirapuera Park Half-Day Tour with Private Transportation

Come join in in this 5-hour tour that focuses on Ibirapuera Park! I believe this to be the ideal tour for you to end your stay in the city.

To start and after picking you up, we will do sightseeing around the city landmarks and then focus on Ibirapuera Park. At the park we will be able to walk at your own pace while enjoying a coconut water, ice cream or even lunch in one of the four wonderful restaurants that exist there.

After that, we will cross an overpass towards the MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art), where will be able to see one of the most beautiful views of São Paulo, an exhibition on the 7th floor.

This tour is great for families with children or for those in transit at the airport as well. An experience that will enrich your visit in São Paulo.

Brazilian coffee with chocolate and cupuacu ( bazilian fruit ) at Vista Cafe, MAC

Come and relax in the most famous park in the city of São Paulo

The best option if you want to discover how diverse, cosmopolitan, hipster, traditional and vanguardist São Paulo city can be.

Let's explore the churches, squares, buildings, markets and streets of the historical center; taste the flavors, smells and colours of Liberdade, our "Japan Town"; relax and admire the nature and architecture of Ibirapuera Park; visit the modern Paulista Avenue or the stylish Oscar Freire boulevard; and check the murals, art galleries and understand all the São Paulo graffiti scene when we walk nearby Batman's Alley in Vila Madalena.

The perfect overview of the city in a half day tour. Let's explore São Paulo together, this city with a lot of faces.

Municipal Theater and Ramos de Azevedo Square

OCA Building designed by Oscar Niemeyer at the Ibirapuera Park

Explore the most important areas of this massive, modern and cosmopolitan city

São Paulo Highlights Half Day Tour

One of the best ways to get to know a city is by walking. In this tour I will have the opportunity to show you Paulista Avenue, the main avenue in São Paulo, where happens the main musical events, politics and protests of the city, besides every Sunday the Paulista closes for the cars and opens for the population, becoming an open-air park.

We will pass through museums, cultural center, park and we will finish the tour with a happy hour at Augusta Street, the most famous bohemian street in São Paulo, where we will drink a caipirinha or a Brazilian beer (don't worry, if you do not drink alcohol, they also have different types of amazing juices).

If you really want to experience the city like a local this tour is highly recommended for you.

The view from Masp - The São Paulo Museum of Art

Paulista Avenue at Sunday, when closes for car and open for the people.

Caipirinha the national drink, made with lime, sugar and cachaça

Experience the city like a local: museums, food and beer in one tour

Paulista Avenue Sao Paulo Walking Tour

If you are thinking the quickest way of getting to know one of the biggest cities in the world, this is your opportunity of having a true insight of the city's cultural and most significant areas maximizing your time.

Plenty opportunities to take pictures. That include the Historical City Center, Japan Town, Ibirapuera Park and more. You may also suggest places within city perimeter. Places and monuments will be explained as you go along. It is fun, it is intelligent and satisfying!

Sao Paulo's Art Museum at Paulista Avenue

Discover Sao Paulo's Diversity and Beauty Maximizing Your Time

Three-Hour Cultural City Tour Sao Paulo

Graffiti in the City of São Paulo Private Tour

The city of São Paulo has many graffiti and murals scattered throughout the neighborhoods. Some are by unknown artists, others are internationally renowned like Kobra.

This tour starts at your hotel, or at a meeting point, we will make a stop at a museum, or another touristic point of your interest, but the most important focus will be the Beco do Batman (Batman Alley), in the Vila Madalena neighborhood, a street with all graffiti on its walls. At this place, we will have a walking tour through a flat street.

We will visit some art galleries, with exhibitions of famous graffiti artists, and we can stop at a gallery to admire a panoramic view of the street with graffiti, have a coffee with cheese bread, a juice or even lunch.

It is a very interesting tour and you will have the chance to take wonderful pictures and buy a unique souvenirs.

Lunch at Ziv Gallery, with a view of grafittis

Piece of cake at Ziv Gallery with a view of grafitti

Russian couple taking picture of Jerry Batista's grafitti.

Entrance of Ziv Gallery, at Batman Alley - the design is temporary

Koi, mural design by Kobra, at Batman Alley

Let's visit Batman Alley in a half-day tour

Historical Center of São Paulo - Walking Tour

One of the best ways to get to know the downtown area of São Paulo is walking, so this way we can avoid the traffic.

In this tour, I will have the opportunity to show you the historical center of São Paulo and how the city became the biggest city in Brazil. We will pass through to the main spots in the beginning of the city construction (Ground Zero, Sé Cathedral, Municipal Theatre are some examples).

If you really want to experience the city like a local this tour is highly recommended for you, we'll take the subway and walk in downtown.

Also, this tour can be customized to suit your interests :)

Discover the history of this megalopolis!

Paraisópolis is the second-largest favela in the city of São Paulo, with approximately a hundred thousand inhabitants. The artsy favela tour offers a unique contact with the people from the community accompanied by a person of the association of dwellers to guarantee our security and answer all the questions the visitor might have about the life in the favela as well as its history.

You will experience the authentic favela lifestyle and be inspired by the social projects led by strong and resilient local residents who are making a difference in the life of the future generations.

You will also visit a few local artists, such as Estevão, also known as "The Brazilian Gaudi"; and Berbela, who both have found a way to create beauty in such a chaotic environment, spreading hope for better days among the people from the community, and attracting visitors from all over the world to see the creations with their own eyes.

Estevão's House, the Legendary Brazilian "Gaudi"

Experience the authentic favela lifestyle & visit local artists

Paraisópolis Favela Tour in São Paulo

São Paulo Full-Day Tour Airport Stopover

With this City Tour you will have a more complete view of the city, starting after you disembark at the International GRU airport for a layover.

You will know neighborhoods with different characteristics, like the bohemian part of the city with an alley with graffiti on the walls, a street of fashion and much more. We will visit the Downtown with very nice buildings from the beginning of the 20th century, maybe taste a cup of coffee during our tour, inside a bakery that is one of the trade marks of Sao Paulo during a breakfast to start the tour. You will have an option to visit one of the very nice museums we have in the city with the diversity that São Paulo provides, like the Football Museum, Pinacoteca (Brazilian artists museum), MASP or any else as your choice.

You can have a lunch at the Municipal Market or any other very good restaurant in Sao Paulo that is considered the Capital of the Gastronomy in Brazil, many options of Italian, Steak House, Japanese, Libanese, and others

Experience the best of São Paulo 

Discover Colonial Brazil - A trip from São Paulo to Paraty

Paraty is a historic city recognized by Unesco as a cultural and natural heritage of humanity.
Surrounded by the Atlantic Forest and located on the Costa Verde, this city has a great role in the history of Brazil. Built-in the 16th century, it was the final destination of the gold road, when the Portuguese extracted it from Minas Gerais and took it to Portugal.
Beaches, Islands, Waterfalls, Indigenous Lands, Quilombola Territories, Colonial Architecture make this city a place that represents a lot of Brazilian Cultures.
By the way, it was in Paraty that Cachaça, the typical Brazilian liquor, was invented. You will have the opportunity to visit a Cachaçaria and taste different types of this drink.

If you want to have a real Brazilian Experience, you definitely should take this tour!

Also, this tour can be customized to suit your interests :)

Accommodation at Brazilian Guesthouse - Private room for each 2 people (double room)

Meu Canto Para Ti - Brazilian Guesthouse | It is located in one of the best neighborhoods in Paraty, surrounded by the Atlantic Forest. You will stay here for one night, in a private room.

You can swim in Green Coast where Paraty is located.

Pataxó Village. Here we will visit a beach and a waterfall that is located in indigenous lands.

Tarzan and Toboggan Waterfall. Here you can bathe in one of the best waterfalls in Paraty.

Paraty at night, local cuisine and charming architecture. Come experience and discover the history of Colonial Brazil.

At the time of Brazil Colony, churches were divided according to social class and skin color, during the tour of the historic center, I will tell you and show you a little more about this history.

We will visit one of the 360 ​​islands that exist in the Bay of Paraty

Where the Mountain meets the Sea | 2 days TOUR!

Since the end of the 1990's, the discussion about "what is vandalism, what is art" was no more necessary. The Street Art became a new trademark of São Paulo city with a lot of new local artists, some of them inspired by the tagging, called by the locals as "pixo", others by the studios and schools of art. The starting point of a big urban art movement that transformed streets, blocks, overpasses, abandoned buildings and alleys in colourful places around the city.

In this tour, let's visit the North Zone of São Paulo, an area considered one of the cradles of the local Street Art. The highlight is the MAAU (Open Air Museum of Urban Art), a row of columns painted by famous street artists.

Another important stop is at downtown São Paulo, where we can take a look in a lot of huge amazing murals painted over the old billboards. The last stop is Vila Madalena, especially the famous Batman's Alley and the many surrounding studios and art galleries.

Will be a pleasure share all this history with you.

Vila Madalena Streets - Artist: Tinho Nomura

Batman's Alley in Vila Madalena - Artist: Enivo

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