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Municipality in Southeast, Brazil
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Barueri is a city in the São Paulo metro area, São Paulo state. Barueri holds the highest GDP per capita among the large cities of the state, thanks to its strong economy based on industry and services. Its growing financial center makes the city an increasingly important international business destination. However, it is one of the most unequal municipalities in Brazil, with great contrasts between upscale neighborhoods and peripheral neighborhoods, although it has tried to change this.
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Parque Ecológico do Tietê - Núcleo Ilha do Tamboré
Public park with 1.5 million m² in the right shore of the Tietê river, although 1/3 of the park is not normally visitable. It contains a lake (which contrasts with the toxic Tietê river), forest trails, animals such as capybaras, sport facilities, BBQ areas and a sort of museum of random curiosities.
Fountain made of brass and basalt, representing three women. The word "cunhatã" means "women" in the tupi-guarani indigenous language (Barueri was originally inhabited by Native Brazilians).
Igreja São João Batista
Located in the main shopping street of Barueri. Obviously not a historical construction, but has an interesting modern architecture.
Museu Municipal de Barueri
The traditional Lebanese food restaurant chain has two branches in Alphaville. Worth tasting are the fishing skewers.
Argentinian chain of handmade ice-cream.
Burger shop with some unusual hamburgers, like the boar burger and the crusty Picanha burger filled with mozarella.
Churrascaria rodízio restaurant.
Branch of a Mexican restaurant chain.
As the name says, it is both a bar and restaurant. With live music after 19:00 between Tuesdays and Fridays.
With both indoor and outdoor areas.
With an indoor area.
English pub with furniture brought from England and an Irish as chef. In the upper floor there are billiards, darts and other games.
Offers flats equipped with kitchen. Breakfast included.
Rooms with wi-fi, amenities include outdoor swimming pool, gym, sauna and restaurant.
The main shopping street of Barueri (i.e. left side of the Tietê river) is a simple but charming place, filled with palm streets and containing an arch and an Ancient Roman-style water fountain.
The artificial but pleasant "shopping district" of Alphaville, composed of several pedestrianized streets with shops, services, restaurants and green squares. Parking is cheaper or free outside regular shopping hours.
With a beautiful facade and a nicely decorated interior, Iguatemi Shopping was considered the best shopping mall of the São Paulo metro area by the Estado de São Paulo newspaper in 2012. Its cinema was considered the best by Época magazine in 2011. The mall contains about 200 shops and 10 gourmet restaurants, focusing on designer and more premium experiences.
Contains some nicely decorated internal gardens, and contains a nice selection of stores, for people looking for day-to-day shopping or having a lunch.
The only shopping mall in the Barueri (left side of the Tietê), focusing on low to middle class consumers. 170 shops.
By bus
From São Paulo, the Alphaville center can be reached by metropolitan bus (EMTU). There are several bus options (check the EMTU website), but they typically take 2 hours and costs about 12 reais.
By train
The Barueri city center contains the Barueri station of CPTM Line 8-Diamond. The trip from the Barra Funda metro station takes around 78 minutes and costs a regular CPTM tariff.
The Alphaville and Barueri centers are compact enough to be explored on foot. Public transport consists of buses, operated by Benfica.
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