Campinas, São Paulo
Brazil
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About Campinas, São Paulo
Campinas is a small Brazilian city with the population of only about one million citizens, which is famous all over the country, as an important Brazilian center of new technologies development. The city of Campinas and few other neighboring countries form the local Brazilian Silicon Valley that is getting rather popular nowadays among the foreign visitors.
The University of Campinas or as it s also called by the locals Unicamp is considered one of the popular local sightseeings and at the same time one of the largest scientific centers of the whole country.
The word Campinas may be translated as the green fields from the Portuguese language and there s no wonder, as the city had been representing the unexplored subtropical jungles till the very beginning of the XVIII-th century. Unfortunately, nowadays the nature of the local surrounding is not developed well enough, as for example few centuries ago the city is growing and developing quite fast.
The city of Campinas represents a typical Brazilian megapolis, which is also considered the city of contrasts and which attracts hundreds of foreign visitors with its high modern buildings, numerous skyscrapers, tiny picturesque churches, ancient buildings and numerous historical monuments of the old ages.