Vila Carrão
Vila Carrão is the historical name of a small residential neighborhood in São Paulo, with 75,000 residents as of 2005.
Vila Carrão is the historical name of a small residential neighborhood in São Paulo, with 75,000 residents as of 2005. It belongs to the Carrão district and to the Aricanduva sub-prefecture.
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Worth seeing in and around Vila Carrão
5 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.
- 01Figueira Altos do Tatuapé
Figueira Altos do Tatuapé is a residential skyscraper in the Tatuapé district of the Eastern Zone of São Paulo, Brazil. Built between 2017 and 2021, the tower stands at 168.2 m tall with 52 floors and is the current 13th tallest building in Brazil.
3.5 km · skyscraper in São Paulo, Brazil · Wikipedia - 02Cemitério de Vila Formosa
The Cemitério de Vila Formosa is a necropolis located in the East End district of Vila Formosa, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It is Latin America's largest cemetery.
1.6 km · cemetery in São Paulo, Brazil · Wikipedia - 03Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Black Men
The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men is located in Largo do Paiçandu, in the central zone of the Brazilian city of São Paulo. It was originally situated in Antônio Prado Square, where it was built by black workers at the beginning of the 18th century to serve as a meeting place for slaves who celebrated Catholic rites mixed with beliefs of Bantu origin.
3.3 km · church building in São Paulo, Brazil · Wikipedia - 04Centro Comercial Aricanduva
Centro Comercial Aricanduva, also known as Shopping Aricanduva, is a shopping mall located in the Aricanduva Avenue, district of Cidade Líder, São Paulo. Its slogan is "Gigante como São Paulo", which means "Gigantic like São Paulo." The mall has 440,000 m2 of built area, out of which 257,047 m2 is leasable space, making it the third largest shopping mall in Latin America in terms of gross leasable area behind the Albrook Mall in Panama, and Antea LifeStyle Center in Mexico, and one of the largest in the world.
3.5 km · Brazilian shopping mall · Wikipedia - 05Paróquia Nossa Senhora de Montevirgem e São Luiz Gonzaga
Paróquia Nossa Senhora de Montevirgem e São Luiz Gonzaga is a catholic church located in São Paulo, Brazil. The church dates back to 1742.
3.3 km · church building in São Paulo, Brazil · Wikipedia
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Getting to Vila Carrão
- Airports
- Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre (CGH), 15 km · São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro (GRU), 15 km · Viracopos (VCP), 86 km
- Stations
- Guilhermina-Esperança, 3.2 km · Vila Matilde, 2.3 km · Carrão, 3.3 km · Penha, 2.2 km
- Campinas → Vila Carrão89 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · R$29–38
- Rio De Janeiro → Vila Carrão350 km · quickest by air, 4h 9m · R$300–460
- Curitiba → Vila Carrão347 km · quickest by air, 4h 40m · R$350–540
- 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 Vila Carrão
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 Vila Carrão. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTransport by air by helicopter throughout São Pauo.
- Go nextMany of São Paulo's immediate neighbors are connected by the EMTU bus service and the commuter rail, making for a range of good day trip options.
- Go nextHotels sometimes provide leisure activities such as scuba diving, mountain biking and trekking.
- Go nextIlhabela (3½ hr) - Accessible only from São Sebastião by ferry, it is an archipelago with various savage beaches and ecotourism options.
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Next door to Vila Carrão
Vila Carrão is 10 km from Guarulhos, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Subprefecture of Penhaadministrative division of Sâo Paulo city3.8 km
- Subprefecture of Aricanduva/Formosa/Carrãoadministrative division of Sâo Paulo city1.4 km
- Tatuapé Districtdistrict of São Paulo city3.5 km
- Vila Formosa Districtdistrict of São Paulo city2.2 km
- Vila Matilde Districtdistrict of São Paulo city1.9 km
- Aricanduva Districtdistrict of São Paulo city2.9 km