Economy & Compact Cars in Sao Paulo

The number of the offices of both famous and regional car rental companies is situated beside the airport. These are Alamo, Hertz, Budget, Movida, Unidas, Focus Car Rental, Brasilia Rent A Car, Rentalcars, National, Localiza, and Foco. The customers of most vehicle hire firms receive their leased cars in the airport terminal or in the car rental centre, where all the major car rental companies are presented (Rentalcars, Alamo, Movida, Localiza, and National). The vehicle rental office is found behind the ticket sales area, next to Gate 1, leading to the landing zone.

The majority of car rental offices do not operate round the clock, but having notified the company of the arrival time in advance you will be able to receive a vehicle. It is advisable to find out the work schedule and working conditions of the selected company in good time.

Such firms as Foco, meet their clients at the airport and take them to the place where they will be able to hire and receive a vehicle. The companies pick up customers near the staircase at the end of the sidewalk, behind the exit gate of the arrival hall. Budget provides a free bus to the parking

Congonhas Airport encompasses several kinds of official parking lots. There is a parking garage with 2,500 car spaces, as well as an open-air car park with 800 parking places. All types of credit cards are accepted for payment. The parking lots are located next to the terminal. Car parks are connected with the airport building by underground passages.

A number of hotels are situated beside the airport. The nearest ones are Rua Baronesa de Bela Vista (0.1 km), Rua Henrique Fausto Lancellotti (0.4 km), Melia Ibirapuera (2.76 km), Mercury Sao Paulo Privilege Hotel (2.92 km), Mercure Hotel (2.71 km), Nobile Suites (1.04 km), Friendly Family Home (2.49 km), Adagio (2.72 km) and others. Read all...

Sao Paulo can offer its guests a wonderful tour of the religious sights – there are plenty of such places in the city. One of the most interesting places for tourists is Mosteiro De Sao Bento, built in the neo-roman style in 1922. The visitors will be amazed by the rich interior decoration of the church, as well as with the bakery located on the territory of the monastery - many locals like to spend their time here. Another famous monastery outside the city is the Santuario e Convento Sao Francisco de Assis, which was built in the year 1647. The reconstruction of the site was needed in the middle of the 18th century – this is precisely when it received its present Baroque appearance.

Templo de Salomão is an interesting religious building, which is also the most visited place throughout Brazil if we talk about sacred monuments (the shrine receives only four hundred thousand guests in a month). The church was built in 2014, by the architect Rogerio Silva de Araujo. Already from its name you can understand that the temple focuses on sacred objects of early Judaism – and it is true, it repeats the building of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, which was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BC, and respectively did not survive to our days. The reference and description of it in the Old Testament served as a “project”.
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