Obelisco do Ibirapuera aos Heróis de 32

This guide to the Obelisco do Ibirapuera aos Heróis de 32 in São Paulo follows sculptor Galileo Ugo Emendabili, commissioned in 1947 to design not a monument but a grave for victims of the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution. It traces the numeric obsessions folded into his design, from the tower's height to the nine steps leading into a hidden crypt shaped like a Greek cross. You'll hear about the students and veterans interred beneath it. Listen for the mosaic saints watching over the crypt below.