Bom Retiro, São Paulo

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Photograph of Jardim da Luz

Bom Retiro is a central district of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It is a mainly commercial place, the industrial and residential areas are greatly decreasing.

The district is attended by the line 1 (Blue) of the São Paulo Metro and by the lines A, B, D, and E of the CPTM.

1 Formation
2 Borders
3 Neighboring Districts
4 Principal Attractions
5 Curiosities
6 See also
7 External links
8 References

[edit] Formation

In the past, Bom Retiro was considered a modern region, when the Luz Station and the Júlio Prestes Station, along with the only public park of the city in that epoch, Jardim da Luz, were elegant arriving and leaving stops for travelers.

Also a place of industrial concentration, in the 1960s the industries began to give up their places to an active commercial place of clothes and fashion, mixed with small industries of confection and weaving. In that epoch the neighborhood was a concentration place for Jews, Syrians, and Lebanese, that years later would migrate to Higienópolis and other neighborhoods far from the central districts of São Paulo.

Possessor of an important patrimonial and cultural inheritage of the city, Bom Retiro holds the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Museu de Arte Sacra de São Paulo, and the Museum of the Portuguese Language (located in the Luz Station), the Pinacoteca Station, and the Centre of Musical Studies - Tom Jobim. The Júlio Prestes Station was reformed and nowadays holds the Sala São Paulo, headquarters of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo. The old building of the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo nowadays holds the Faculty of Technology of the State of São Paulo and the Technical School of the State of São Paulo.

The park Jardim da Luz is the oldest park of the city of São Paulo, and one of the few green areas found in the city's central region.

Nowadays the district possesses lots of residents of lower classes, mainly living in Cortiços. It is the second largest oriental stronghold of the city, commonly known as the Liberdade of the Koreans, that control two thirds of the commerce and industry of the region, providing fashionable clothes for all of Brazil.

[edit] Borders

North: Tietê River;
South: Mauá Street/Railway of CPTM (Lines A, D, and E);
East: Cruzeiro do Sul Avenue and Estado Avenue;
West: Railway of CPTM (Line B), Engenheiro Orlando Murgel Viaduct, Rudge Avenue, and Casa Verde Bridge (beginning).

[edit] Neighboring Districts

Santana (São Paulo) (North);
Pari (São Paulo) (East);
Brás (Southeast);
Sé and República (South);
Santa Cecília and Barra Funda (very little) (West).

[edit] Principal Attractions

Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo;
Luz Station (CPTM);
Museum of the Portuguese Language;
Júlio Prestes Station;
Sala São Paulo;
Pinacoteca Station;
Museu de Arte Sacra;
Igreja de Santo Antônio de Sant'Ana Galvão.

[edit] Curiosities

The Hosepdaria dos Imigrantes was anteriorly situated in Bom Retiro. It remained there until the 1880s, when it was then transferred to Brás.
Bom Retiro was once a neighborhood where the Italian and Jewish communities predominated. Nowadays, the Korean, Chinese, and Bolivian presence is very strong.
The Sport Club Corinthians Paulista was founded by residents of Bom Retiro, in the year of 1910, in Rua José Paulino.^[1]

[edit] See also

O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias is a film that takes place in 1970 in Bom Retiro. The film is mainly about the 1970 FIFA World Cup and the military dictatorships in place after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. It also shows how strong the central European Jewish and Italian immigrant concentration was (a soccer match between the Italians and the Jews was held periodically in Bom Retiro).