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Start your experience with a pick-up from your São Paulo hotel. Hop inside your private, air-conditioned vehicle with your guide and begin your tour.
Embu’s weekend arts-and-craft fair is the biggest draw in the São Paulo region for artisanal wares!
About Embu das Artes:
Founded in 1554, Embu, or Embu das Artes, is a tiny Portuguese colonial town of whitewashed houses, old churches, wood-carvers’ studios, and antiques shops. It has a downtown handicrafts fair every weekend. On Sunday the streets sometimes get so crowded you can barely walk, so it’s worth arriving early. Embu also has many stores that sell handicrafts and wooden furniture; most of these are close to where the street fair takes place
Distance from São Paulo: 18 miles (+/- 40min by car)
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Duration: 5 hours
Starts: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Start your experience with a pick-up from your São Paulo hotel. Hop inside your private, air-conditioned vehicle with your guide and begin your tour.
Embu’s weekend arts-and-craft fair is the biggest draw in the São Paulo region for artisanal wares!
About Embu das Artes:
Founded in 1554, Embu, or Embu das Artes, is a tiny Portuguese colonial town of whitewashed houses, old churches, wood-carvers’ studios, and antiques shops. It has a downtown handicrafts fair every weekend. On Sunday the streets sometimes get so crowded you can barely walk, so it’s worth arriving early. Embu also has many stores that sell handicrafts and wooden furniture; most of these are close to where the street fair takes place
Distance from São Paulo: 18 miles (+/- 40min by car)
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Stop At: Embu das Artes, Embu das Artes, State of Sao Paulo
It all started when Cassio M’Boy, image-maker of Embu has emerged to be awarded in Technical Arts Exhibition in Paris. Cassius, however, was already, before that, professor of artists and used to get in your home exponents of Week of ’22, including Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral and Alfredo Volpi, among others.
The artistic tradition of the city gained prominence within and outside Brazil in 1964 with the First Hall of the Arts. But it was in the late 1960s that came the hippies, exposing their craft work on weekends, and gave rise to the Arts and Crafts Fair, traditional and very popular today in the region.
Currently in this fair, you can buy as well as jewelry, pieces of rustic wooden furniture, garments made in looms, handmade sweets and jams, and more.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Museu de Arte Sacra dos Jesuitas, Largo Jesuitas 67 Centro, Embu das Artes, State of Sao Paulo 06803-360 Brazil
It is formed by the church and the former residence of the priests, combined in the same building. It is one of the most important Jesuit buildings in Sao Paulo, characterized by simplicity of straight lines.
Duration: 20 minutes
