Sorocaba
Sorocaba is a municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Sorocaba is a municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. With over 723,000 inhabitants, it is the seventh-largest city in the state and the second-largest outside the Greater São Paulo region, ranking behind only Campinas. It forms its own Metropolitan Region of Sorocaba, comprising 27 municipalities with a total population of 2 million inhabitants, the 15th most populous in Brazil.
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Worth seeing in and around Sorocaba
3 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.
- 01Municipal Zoological Park Quinzinho de Barros
The Municipal Zoological Park "Quinzinho de Barros" is a 15-hectare zoo located in the municipality of Sorocaba, state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is a member of the Society of Brazilian Zoos, and is considered Brazil's second zoo in terms of species.
2.1 km · zoo in Brazil · Wikipedia - 02Sorocaba Metropolitan Cathedral
The Sorocaba Metropolitan Cathedral or Metropolitan Cathedral of "Nossa Senhora da Ponte", home of Archdiocese of Sorocaba, located in the Plaza Coronel Fernando Prestes in downtown area of the city of Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil. It was built over 200 years ago.
200 m · church in Sorocaba, Brazil · Wikipedia - 03Estádio Municipal Walter Ribeiro
Estádio Municipal Walter Ribeiro is a stadium in Sorocaba, Brazil. It has a capacity of 13,722 spectators.
1.6 km · football Stadium in Brazil · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Cathedral Church.
- 01Brigadier Tobias' Manor
Monastery of São Bento, Largo São Bento - Centro,.
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Where to eat
Bacã, de Av. Marginal Dom Aguirre. MW, Campolim. Floresta Negra, Jardim América, close to Campolim. German cuisine. Santa Victória, Alto da Boa Vista Chopperia Barbacana. Jardim Piratininga.
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Getting to Sorocaba
- Airports
- Viracopos (VCP), 64 km · Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre (CGH), 83 km · São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro (GRU), 101 km
- Stations
- Sorocaba Airport, 3.6 km
- São Paulo → Sorocaba84 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · R$27–36
- Campinas → Sorocaba78 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · R$23–31
- Curitiba → Sorocaba282 km · quickest by road, 7h 1m · R$100–135
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Sorocaba
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 Sorocaba. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Sorocaba
Sorocaba is 59 km from Barueri, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Votorantimmunicipality of São Paulo state, Brazil5.4 km