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Getting there

• Planes

  A big city needs a big airport, and São Paulo has one in the Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governador André Franco Montoro (Guarulhos for short, or Cumbica locally). It's Latin America's busiest airport, so you won't have a problem finding flights: there are regular services from London Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle as well as a host of major US cities. If you're heading off to Rio or elsewhere in Brazil, you might take off from the nearby Aeroporto Congonhas.

• Trains

  The grand Luz station is the place to arrive by train; it's also a subway station.

• Automobiles

  Early morning and late afternoon traffic jams bringing the city to a standstill are notorious here – get into a car at your peril.