SÃO PAULO - A ALDEIA QUE VIROU METRÓPOLE

Those who walk through the busy streets of the city of São Paulo may not imagine it, but the capital of the state of the same name was once a field with a small village and a church set up in a hut where today is the Pátio do Colégio. São Miguel Paulista is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city. The Tupiniquin people lived there, as well as in the neighborhood that we now know as Pinheiros. Moema and popcorn are indigenous names. A commercial warehouse in the 18th century – it connected the interior of Brazil to the port of Santos – the city grew with coffee, then with industrialization and ended up becoming an important cultural hub. How does this all happen? This is what this book by the award-winning Silvana Salerno tells us, with illustrations by Bruna Assis Brasil, a work that starts from fiction to reveal History.