São Caetano do Sul

São Caetano do Sul is a large city in the Greater São Paulo area. It has one of the best standards of living in the country. Home of the brazilian GM headquarters, it is also an old industrial city and it has a lot of abandoned plants around the city. I used to come to the city to visit friends and also to the Sam´s Club store, where my wife likes to go shopping for american products. This last time we parked at Sam´s Club and I left alone for a walk around the Fundação District. Found these old and abandoned plants, one of them belonged to Francesco Matarazzo, an italian immigrant who was one of the most important entrepreneurs in the history of brazilian industry about 100 years ago. We see his mark in one of the pictures that says IRFM (Francesco Matarazzo United Industries - Industrias Reunidas Francesco Matarazzo). I also found a nice little church and watched an indoor soccer game, at the Fundação Sports Club, where children played a wonderful soccer, better than many pro players.