Campinas, Brazil Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

One hundred kilometres northwest of São Paulo is CAMPINAS , in decline since the nineteenth century when it was by far the more important of the two cities. It started life as a sugar plantation centre, produced coffee from 1870 and, most recently, has made its money as an agricultural processing and high-tech industrial centre. An attractive city, with a reasonably small centre, there aren’t too many reasons for visiting, though it’s interesting enough to take a tour around Largo do Rosário, with its Catedral , inaugurated in 1883. A few blocks southwest of here – around the train … more »