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Granja Viana
District in Cotia, São Paulo, Brazil

Granja Viana

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

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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.

Get in

Getting to Granja Viana

There are daily interurban buses that can be taken at the district of Pinheiros, in São Paulo. Cotia is crossed by the Rodovia Raposo Tavares (SP-270), which serves as its major road and connection with São Paulo. It is also possible to reach it via the Castello Branco and Regis Bittencourt highways, but you will have to take the Rodoanel and eventually reach Raposo Tavares anyway.

See

Worth seeing

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.

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,.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Carlo Brescia (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.