Place
Martinelli Building
R. São Bento, 405 - Centro Histórico de São Paulo, São Paulo - SP, 01011-100
Reinforced-concrete tower crowned by a rooftop villa, once Latin America's tallest skyscraper.
This guide to the Martinelli Building in São Paulo centers on Giuseppe Martinelli, a Tuscan immigrant who rose from the docks of Santos into São Paulo's coffee trade before deciding, in the 1920s, to build far taller than anyone thought the ground could support. Engineers and city officials tried repeatedly to halt construction. He answered them by moving his own family into a villa he built on the very top floor, in full view of the city he had frightened.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.