Landmark
Bela Vista
Dense, cantina-lined district built by Italian immigrants who packed shared tenement houses shoulder to shoulder.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bela Vista in São Paulo, which locals still call Bixiga, opens on laundry day in a crowded cortiço, where several immigrant families shared one bathroom and one row of washing tanks. It follows the Calabrian Italians who settled these streets in the late 1800s, and the other residents who lived under the same roofs. Best heard on foot, with the street noise around you.
This audio guide was created using AI.