Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Thursday, April 23, 2026 — a fully normal working day in São Paulo. São Jorge is a Rio state holiday only and is not observed here, so banks, offices, schools, and commerce all run standard Thursday hours. Rodízio applies to plates 7 and 8 in the Centro […]

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Welcome to your Rio de Janeiro daily guide for Thursday, April 23, 2026 — the Day of São Jorge, a Rio state holiday and one of the most genuine devotional moments in the city’s year. The Matriz de São Jorge in Quintino has been packed since the Missa da Alvorada at 5h, preceded for the […]

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Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Wednesday, April 22, 2026 — the first working day after Tiradentes and the return to São Paulo’s normal weekday rhythm. The MASP and Pinacoteca are both open, rodízio resumes with plates 5 and 6 restricted in peak hours, and the B3 reopens for the first time since […]

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Welcome to your Rio de Janeiro daily guide for Wednesday, April 22, 2026 — the first working day after Tiradentes and the most loaded cultural day of the month. At 09h the CCBB Rio opens Yoshitaka Amano — Além da Fantasia, the largest show of the Japanese artist’s career: 218 original works, including unseen pieces, […]

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Key Points — Twelve Brazilian cargo ships sailed for Persian Gulf ports since the Iran war began on February 28, with eight departures in March and four more since early April. — Brazilian exports to Iran rose to US$134.8 million in March despite the war, with roughly 1.7 million tonnes of corn waiting at or […]

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Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Monday, April 20, 2026 — Tiradentes eve. The federal government declared today a ponto facultativo, and the São Paulo state government (Decreto 70.273) and the city of São Paulo (Decreto 64.862/2025) have both confirmed the suspension of servers’ expediente. Many public offices close entirely, private-sector offices mostly […]

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Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Sunday, April 19, 2026. Avenida Paulista closes to traffic for Paulista Aberta — the Sunday Ruas Abertas ritual that turns the city’s most iconic avenue into a walking, cycling, and street-performance corridor from Praça do Ciclista to Praça Oswaldo Cruz. The MASP runs a standard Sunday of […]

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Welcome to your Rio de Janeiro daily guide for Sunday, April 19, 2026. IEM Rio 2026 closes at Farmasi Arena with the Counter-Strike Major Grand Final — the loudest single sporting moment on Rio’s April calendar. MAM Rio runs its first weekend Sunday of the Rubem Valentim retrospective, a decade in the making. The MAR […]

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Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Saturday, April 18, 2026. The Pinacoteca runs its free Saturday across all three buildings: Pascale Marthine Tayou’s Nocaute fills seven Pina Luz galleries, Macunaíma é Duwid holds Pina Estação, and Cristina Salgado occupies the Octógono — all at zero cost. The MASP is also open with five […]

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Welcome to your Rio de Janeiro daily guide for Saturday, April 18, 2026. MAM Rio opens Rubem Valentim: a ordem do… — the first major retrospective in a decade of the Afro-Brazilian geometric modernist. Rio Fashion Week hits its closing runway at Pier Mauá with Lenny Niemeyer at 21h30. IEM Rio 2026 moves into Day […]

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Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Thursday, April 16, 2026. The MASP and Pinacoteca are both open — the MASP’s Latin American shows have expanded with Santiago Yahuarcani, the Peruvian artist who was a sensation at the 2026 Venice Biennale, and the Chilean collective Acciones de Arte joining Renoir and Gamarra Heshiki. At […]

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