Visitor Information
São Paulo's visitor information booths are of limited use. They offer a free city map and a city booklet with limited sightseeing information (but 30 pages of ads for escort services). Staff will attempt to answer your questions, but there's little information to pick up and browse.
Both the city of São Paulo and the state of São Paulo provide tourist information at Guarulhos. The state info booths, SET (tel. 011/6445-2380), can be found in Terminals 1 and 2 in the arrivals section and are open daily from 7am to 9pm. The city's booth, CIT, is open Monday through Friday from 8am to 10pm and Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 9pm. Booths in Terminals 1 and 2 are open daily from 7am to 7pm. CIT (at the airport or in the city) often has copies of the excellent free map, Mapa das Artes, which not only shows streets and subways but also gives the location of the city's most interesting public and private art galleries.
The CIT booths (Central de Informações Turisticas) are located downtown at Praça da República, in front of Rua 7 de Abril (tel. 011/3231-2922; daily 9am-6pm); and Avenida Paulista, in front of Trianon Park (tel. 011/3251-0970; Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat-Sun 10am-4pm). The SET (State Information Booths) can be found at Rua XV de Novembro 347, Centro (tel. 011/3231-44-5), open daily from 9am to 6pm, and across from the Teatro Municipal in the Shopping Light, Rua Coronel Xavier de Toledo 23, Centro (tel. 011/6445-2380), open Monday through Friday only from 9am to 6pm.
