Moloch with music.

Eleven million Brazilian city Sao Paulo is considered ugly and dangerous and is rarely destination for tourists. But amid the gray concrete buildings, there are oases: for example, lively entertainment district. Or flea markets with klampfenden Altherr bands.
  Matheus is in serious trouble. An enemy mob him eingezingelt. Behind him go? S not continue. Swerve to the left? Excluded. A bulliger tower obstructs him the way. Next erupt? Hopeless. Here are the ranks of the characters who threaten him, impenetrable. Whether it perhaps on the right side still a small loophole there? Matheus looks to the side and breathes nervously by.
Luis, the head of the black gang, grins in the safe feeling of triumph. He has Matheus at the wrap. Because of Matheus? white chessmen are not many left. His King is as good as dull. Matheus Gedankenversunken analyzed the sheer impasse? and can not continue like this upset that the folding table on which his chess is built, a pedestrian traffic jam caused. Because Matheus and Luís bear their duel at a flea market from heavily visited. Middle of one of the already narrow paths of Benedito Calixto-square. Them to squeeze past the masses.
Some passerby looks at the players. But not for the reason for the congestion to curse, but out of curiosity. The little scrum here not spoil the mood. Many in passing gnaw at a meat skewers, leave a fried dumplings filled with palm hearts taste or suck on a thick straw, which is a coconut.
It is Saturday afternoon in Sao Paulo? and the exuberance of the Paulistas, as the inhabitants call to significantly increase. That is certainly worth a mention. Because unlike in many South American metropolises dominate at five and a half days a week of hard work and the nature of the Brazilian Eleven-million city. It is financial and economic center. Together with the Sao Paulo metropolitan area comes to around 20 million inhabitants. It is the largest city in the southern hemisphere. Industries has a long tradition here, because Sao Paulo experienced many booms. The trade of tea, coffee, sugarcane and cotton brought prosperity to the city? and millions of immigrants.
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What could be the ambition of São Paulo symbolize better than the fact that the heart of this city into a banking and insurance miles proposes: Avenida Paulista. In this faceless skyscraper canyon lined up to three kilometers, offices and shopping together Smalls. Avenida Paulista is no boulevard, but it is relatively harmless. Especially for tourists, devastating the reputation of Sao Paulo have in mind, it is a welcome fixture.
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A few kilometers away on the other hand, likes this vast megacity completely off. Nervenzehrender traffic, an endless Betonskyline, verpestete air. In Sao Paulo, as nasty as the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, the warring neighboring metropolis, could the air that we inhalation, with the naked eye can see.
But even worse: Sao Paulo has no sights of rank. No world-famous beach like Rio de Janeiro. Their lack of sympathetic sentimentality of Buenos Aires or the casual rhythm of Havana? why many cities tourists a bow to make Sao Paulo.
A pity really, because SAMPA? so the short form? is a bustling metropolis. Design and fashion trends are often set here, although superficially aesthetic little understanding in this city seems to be stuck. In his song "SAMPA", the famous Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso disturbing the attraction of São Paulo put: "When I arrived here, I understood nothing," sings Veloso.