Sao Paulo overwhelms the senses with its size. With over 10 million inhabitants, it is the world's third largest city and the largest in South America. Sao Paulo and its rival Brazilian city, Rio de Janeiro, have often been compared to New York and Los Angeles respectively. If Rio got famous for its striking natural setting, Sao Paulo's attraction lies in its people and its vibrant cultures. The Avenida Paulista's canyon of up thrusting skyscrapers only hints at the city's sources of energy. A more cosmopolitan city than its counterpart, Sao Paulo has important ethnic minority communities, including substantial Japanese, Italian, and Arab and Lebanese Christian neighbourhoods.

Flights to Sao Paulo

Brazil's most modern, cosmopolitan city has lot to offer in addition to its excellent cuisines. Its museums are among the finest in South America, its surrounding coastline is graced with many beautiful beaches, and its entertainment and nightlife have for years fascinated some of the best performers in the world. In recent years, the city has evolved into a centre for Brazil's own martial art, capoeira, whose dance-like motions are performed to music. The art has its own traditional instruments: drums and the berimbau, a stringed rod used to keep time. Originally developed as the martial art of the slaves of the Bahia, capoeira was banned by the ruling classes. To keep their art alive, the slaves turned capoeira into a dance, and the berimbau, which had warned of an approaching master, began to accompany the dance itself. As late as the 1920s capoeira was still forbidden and practiced only underground; today, it is very well recognized and much-loved spectacle.

Flights to Sao Paulo with Copa Airlines

Sao Paulo has two main airports. The Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport for the international flights and the Congonhas-Sao Paulo Airport for domestic and regional flights. Another airport, the Campo de Marte Airport, serves light aircraft and helicopters. The three airports together moved 34,342,496 passengers, making Sao Paulo on of the top 30 busiest in the world, by number of air passenger movements.
Copa Airlines is operating flights to Sao Paulo and Panama City.