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Mogi das Cruzes

Mogi das Cruzes is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, located within the metropolitan region of the state capital of the city of São Paulo.

Mogi das Cruzes
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The place

Mogi das Cruzes is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, located within the metropolitan region of the state capital of the city of São Paulo. The population is 451,505 in an area of 713 km2. It is located 40 km to the east of the city of São Paulo. It was founded in 1560 by the bandeirantes. The sprawling municipality, which includes many rural areas, is the easternmost arm of São Paulo conburbation seen on satellite images. César de Souza and Brás Cubas districts are considered the suburban core, center of town and a city within the municipality in a horizontal line east of the built-up area of Suzano.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mogi das Cruzes

One place 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
    St. Ann Cathedral

    The St. Ann Cathedral Also Mogi das Cruzes Cathedral Is a church located in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, which was built on the same site where the first chapel was erected, and where in 1900 a church was set up for Our Lady of Sant'Ana, which is now the seat of the Diocese of Mogi das Cruzes, erected in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. In 1952 was designed by Monsignor Roque Pinto de Barros, the Parochial Vicar, a new parish church.

    400 m · church building in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Centennial Park of Japanese Immigration
  2. 02
    Sabaúna

    Sabaúna is a now quiet village founded in the 19th century around the train station of the same name, by immigrants and workers that settled in that area.

  3. 03
    Leon Feffer Park

    The Leon Feffer Park was open in August 2004 by the city of Mogi das Cruzes in the district of Braz Cubas.

  4. 04
    Urubu Peak
  5. 05
    Casarão do Chá

    Casarão do Chá of Mogi das Cruzes was built as a tea factory, designed and built in 1942 by Japanese architect and carpenter Kazuo Hanaoka.

From Wikivoyage: Mogi das Cruzes, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Hiking and trekking

  1. 01
    Pedra do Lagarto

    Antonio de Almeida until its end and get the road that goes up to the right).

  2. 02
    Pedra Grande da Quatinga

    Hikers can have a view of the surrounding green areas.

  3. 03
    Sabaúna District to Guararema

    It is possible to hike from Sabaúna district to Guararema, the neighboring town which was used to be connected by the railway line.

  4. 04
    Trilha da Aranha

    It takes you to a valley, the other side of Pico do Urubu.

  5. 05
    Cross the Tietê
  6. 06
    Pedra do Sapo

From Wikivoyage: Mogi das Cruzes, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Somewhat diverse for its size, Mogi has options of different cuisines to try. The influence from the people coming from Arab culture countries is a notable difference from neighboring towns. Some of the Japanese food restaurants are decent, too. You can eat relatively cheap in downtown and residential areas, but if you go around the shopping mall, it gets expensive. Brazilian

  1. 01
    Bisa Maria Gastronomia

    Manoel Rudge, 1169 - Parque Monte Libano.

  2. 02
    Thayb Doces Árabes

    Has different lunch meal sets for each weekday, shwarma, falafel, halawi and other sweets.

  3. 03
    MN Lamen

    R.

  4. 04
    Karin Lámen

    Narciso Yague Guimarães, 1540 - Jardim Armenia.

  5. 05
    Goliat Gelato & Coffee

    Galdino Alves, 142 - Parque Monte Libano.

From Wikivoyage: Mogi das Cruzes, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Mogi das Cruzes

Airports
São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro (GRU), 31 km · Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre (CGH), 49 km · Viracopos (VCP), 112 km
Stations
Braz Cubas (CPTM), 4.1 km
  • São Paulo → Mogi das Cruzes
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · R$17–23
  • Campinas → Mogi das Cruzes
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · R$42–55
  • Rio De Janeiro → Mogi das Cruzes
    315 km · quickest by air, 4h 52m · R$360–550
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mogi das Cruzes

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 Mogi das Cruzes. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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Around it

Next door to Mogi das Cruzes

Mogi das Cruzes is 13 km from Suzano, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.