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Granja Viana

Granja Viana is an upscale district in the city of Cotia, São Paulo, Brazil.

Granja Viana
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The place

Granja Viana is an upscale district in the city of Cotia, São Paulo, Brazil. Officially, the district is located in the east side of the city, but some portions of southern Carapicuíba, northern Embu das Artes and eastern Jandira are often referred to as Granja Viana as well. It can be accessed via the Raposo Tavares Highway.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Granja Viana

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
    Zu Lai Temple

    The Zu Lai Temple is a Buddhist temple in Cotia, São Paulo state, Brazil.

    3.3 km · Buddhist temple in 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

The district of Granja Viana (sometimes spelled Granja Vianna) is one of the three districts that make up the municipality of Cotia and the first one if you come from São Paulo via Raposo Tavares highway. The district is filled with middle/upper class condos and has a number of restaurants, shopping centers, parks and other features worth visiting. Granja Viana was once formed by a small number of big farms.

  1. 01
    Parque Cemucam

    Rua Mesopotâmia, s/nº (Exit Rodovia Raposo Tavares (São Paulo heading) by km 25),.

  2. 02
    Parque Teresa Maia

    A small park with playground, an open air gym for the elderly, a lake with ducks and fish and a small forest with trails.

  3. 03
    Templo Budista Zu Lai

    Estrada Fernando Nobre, 1461 (When heading west, exit Raposo Tavares by km 28,5), zulai@templozulai.org.br.

  4. 04
    Paróquia Santo Antônio

    Templo Odsal Linkg, Rua dos Agrimensores, 1461,.

  5. 05
    Cia dos Bichos

    Downtown Cotia is located between Granja Viana and Caucaia do Alto, starting at km 29 of Raposo Tavares Highway and ending at the km 40, at the border with Vargem Grande Paulista.

  6. 06
    Convento Carmelo

    Religious order of cloistered carmelite, since 1942 in Cotia.

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

Eat

Where to eat

Benditos, Avenida Professor Manuel José Pedroso, 353, benditos.restaurante@gmail.com. Mon-Fri 11:00-15:00. Salads, grilled food, pasta, risottos. Rei da Esfiha, Rua Senador Feijó, 352, +55 11 4614-1222. Sfihas, pizzas, sandwiches, portions Chicken Pizza, Avenida Antonio Martins de Camargo, 81, +55 11 4148-3326. Fried chicken, pizza and sandwiches. Restaurante da Feijoada Plínio, Rua São Paulo das Missões, 409,.

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

Go there

Getting to Granja Viana

Airports
Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre (CGH), 20 km · São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro (GRU), 43 km · Viracopos (VCP), 72 km
  • São Paulo → Granja Viana
    20 km · quickest by road, 45 min · R$6–8
  • Campinas → Granja Viana
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · R$27–37
  • Curitiba → Granja Viana
    318 km · quickest by air, 4h 53m · R$360–560
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Granja Viana

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 Granja Viana. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Ilha GrandeBR

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

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  4. 04
    San Pedro de AtacamaCL

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

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  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

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Around it

Next door to Granja Viana

Granja Viana is 9 km from Carapicuíba, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.