Campinas

Worth seeing in and around Campinas

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   University of Campinas

   The State University of Campinas, commonly called Unicamp, is a public research university in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Established in 1962, Unicamp was designed from scratch as an integrated research center unlike other top Brazilian universities, usually created by the consolidation of previously existing schools and institutes.

   9.9 km · public research university in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil · Wikipedia
2. 02
   São Paulo State University

   São Paulo State University is a public university run by the state government of São Paulo, Brazil. Unesp has a combined student body of over 45,000 spread among its 23 campuses.

   9.9 km · public university in São Paulo · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Estádio Brinco de Ouro

   The Estádio Brinco de Ouro da Princesa Portuguese pronunciation: [isˈtadʒju ˈbɾĩku dʒi ˈowɾu], also known as Estádio Brinco de Ouro, or just Brinco de Ouro, is a football stadium inaugurated on May 31, 1953 in Campinas, São Paulo state, Brazil with a maximum capacity of 29,130 people. The stadium is owned by Guarani Futebol Clube and has a pitch size of 105,12m x 70,12m Brinco de Ouro's architects were Ícaro de Castro Mello and Osvaldo Correio Gonçalves.

   1.8 km · football stadium in Brazil · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Estádio Moisés Lucarelli

   Estádio Moisés Lucarelli z lukaˈɾɛli]), also known as Estádio Majestoso, or just Majestoso, is a football stadium inaugurated on September 12, 1948 in Campinas, São Paulo, with a maximum capacity of 19,728 spectators. The stadium is owned by Associação Atlética Ponte Preta.

   1.3 km · football stadium in Brazil · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Basilica of Our Lady of Carmel, Campinas

   The Basilica of Our Lady of Carmel Also Basilica of Campinas Is a basilica located in the sector of Largo do Carmo, in the center of Campinas in the state of São Paulo in the south of Brazil. Originally it was the main church of the city and around which it developed Campinas.

   500 m · church building in Campinas, Brazil · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Campinas Brazil Temple

   The Campinas Brazil Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. The intent to build the temple was announced on April 5, 1997, by church president Gordon B. Hinckley during general conference.

   6.2 km · temple of the LDS Church · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Our Lady of the Conception Cathedral, Campinas

   The Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Conception, also Campinas Cathedral, is a Catholic church in Campinas in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It was inaugurated in 1883 and is located in the Jose Bonifacio Square, popularly known as the Cathedral Square, in the city center.

   100 m · church in Campinas, Brazil · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas

   The Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas is a private and non-profit Catholic university, located in Campinas, the second largest city in the State of São Paulo. The university is maintained by the Catholic Archdiocese of Campinas.

   8 km · University, academic publisher · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Edifício Itatiaia

   The Itatiaia Building is an apartment building in the Centro district of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. It was designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer in 1953 and completed in 1957.

   400 m · Modernist building designed by Oscar Niemeyer · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Parque Portugal

    Parque Portugal, also known as Lagoa do Taquaral, is an urban public park in the city of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. It is set around a beautiful lagoon and adjacent wooded park, and is a large municipal entertainment and sports park, with a planetarium, a science museum, an indoor sports stadium and swimming pool, kart racing and model airplane areas, an open concert auditorium, a floating caravel replica, a working historical tramway, pedalos, facilities for several types of sports, including a long track for running, cycling and walking, restaurants, etc.

    3.5 km · park in Brazil · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

Like many others large Brazilian cities, Campinas' Downtown suffers from urban degradation. However, it contains several buildings of historical and architectural value, many associated with São Paulo state's glorious coffee farming era between the 19th and 20th centuries.

1. 01
   Saint Geneva Forest

From Wikivoyage: Campinas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Campinas-Jaguariúna steam locomotive ride, Rua Dr. Antonio Duarte da Conceição 1.500 (Near carrefour of Rod. D. Pedro), abpfcps@terra.com.br. Tourist steam locomotive ride starting at the historical Anhumas train station towards the Jaguariúna train station, in Jaguariúna. Only on weekends. Call or send an e-mail (in Portuguese) for prices, exact departure and return times. Ciclofaixa Campinas. Sun 07:00-13:00.

From Wikivoyage: Campinas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

While, like most of the state, Campinas has the fairly typical paulistano range of Italian, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and standard Brazilian food, it doesn't have anything much that might be called campineiro food.

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Getting to Campinas

Airports

Viracopos (VCP), 14 km · São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro (GRU), 84 km · Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre (CGH), 90 km

Stations

Campo dos Amarais Airport, 7.1 km · Campinas train station, 700 m

• São Paulo → Campinas

  84 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · R$25–33
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• Curitiba → Campinas

  359 km · quickest by air, 4h 35m · R$340–530
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• Rio De Janeiro → Campinas

  397 km · quickest by air, 4h 10m · R$310–480
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No local-transport research exists yet for Campinas

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Campinas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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