Estádio Municipal Paulo Machado de Carvalho

This guide to the municipal stadium in São Paulo starts with a Corinthians–São Paulo match on May 24, 1942, when a gate count of over seventy thousand people packed into a bowl built to hold barely forty thousand, jammed onto slopes, staircases and the running track around the pitch. It traces the Art Deco horseshoe itself, raised in 1940 by the office of architect Ramos de Azevedo, its curve borrowed from the hillside it sits on, and the absence of any real turnstile count that let that 1942 crowd swell unchecked. You'll also hear about the running track and pool below, still open to the public today.