Historical landmark
Luz Station
Victorian-style rail terminal shipped piece by piece from Britain, with a landmark clock tower above the platforms.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Luz Station in São Paulo traces the Victorian clock tower built in London in 1899 and the fifty meters of Scottish ironwork shipped piece by piece from Glasgow to build Brazil's grandest railway terminus. You'll hear how coffee money funded the line to the port of Santos, and how immigrants, Italians, Japanese, Lebanese, Syrian, Jewish, Polish, Lithuanian and Bolivian, stepped off under this same clock and gave the station its nickname, Brazil's Ellis Island. It also follows the 1946 fire that tested whether the tower's original mechanism would survive.
This audio guide was created using AI.