The biggest green space in central São Paulo, Parque do Ibirapuera
makes a fine escape from the city's seemingly infinite stretches of
concrete. In addition, the leafy 2-sq-km park serves as a thriving
center of the city's cultural life, with a series of museums,
performance spaces and the grounds for São Paulo's renowned Bienal.
Inaugurated
in 1954 to commemorate the city's 400th anniversary, the park was
designed by renowned landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. A series of
landmark buildings in the park are the work of modernist master Oscar
Niemeyer; most of them are linked by a long and distinctively serpentine
covered walkway.
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