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São Paulo

Brazil · 12 quests

Nature

2 quests
Ibirapuera, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
Ibirapuera
Its pavilions were controversial from the start
São Paulo Botanical Garden, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
São Paulo Botanical Garden
A garden this large sits inside a state park

Art

4 quests
Copan, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
Copan
One concrete giant holds six blocks
MASP, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
MASP
Four red pillars hold the museum above the ground
Beco do Batman, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
Beco do Batman
Dense graffiti fills the streets around the alley
Galeria do Rock, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
Galeria do Rock
Records and tattoos share 450 shopfronts

Food

3 quests
Moqueca, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
Moqueca
What gives this fish stew its red-gold color?
Galinhada, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
Galinhada
Its name starts with the word for chicken
Feijão tropeiro, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
Feijão tropeiro
Beans meet cassava flour, bacon and eggs

Sport

1 quest
Nubank Parque, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
Nubank Parque
It holds more people for concerts than football

Party

2 quests
Bourbon Street, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
Bourbon Street
Three sounds set the night here
Vila do Samba, São Paulo🇧🇷 São Paulo
Vila do Samba
The room stays lively around local samba

Brazil

Photo quests in São Paulo

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

São Paulo holds twelve quests across five categories, led by Art with four — though only just, with three in Food behind it. The categories with nothing in São Paulo so far are History and Beach.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Galeria do Rock. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eleven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the São Paulo quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in São Paulo the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near São Paulo

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in São Paulo

How many photo quests are there in São Paulo?
12, across five of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Art (4), Food (3) and Nature (2). Nothing in History and Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Ibirapuera, Copan and Moqueca.
What is there to do in São Paulo beyond the obvious?
One of the 12 quests in São Paulo is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". São Paulo holds one at tier 1, two at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Galeria do Rock, in Art.
Can you do all the São Paulo quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 12 is 9.3 km from the middle of the São Paulo list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which São Paulo quests can you do for free?
11 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in São Paulo means one quest: Galeria do Rock.
How do I prove I visited a place in São Paulo?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in São Paulo is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Ibirapuera fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in São Paulo sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.