Park
Parque da Água Branca
State-heritage fairground where folk dance troupes from across the region perform each September.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Parque da Água Branca traces its unlikely double life: opened in 1929 by the state agriculture secretary as a livestock and zootechnical fairground pushed for by the Brazilian Rural Society, it now hosts Revelando SP each September, when folk troupes from across São Paulo state — fandango dancers, Congada drummers, Folia de Reis singers — fill its paths with music and craft stalls. You'll hear where some of those traditions travel in from and why they've endured. Picture the cattle pavilions still standing behind the crowds.
This audio guide was created using AI.