Altinópolis is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian city of the state of São Paulo

São Paulo (state)

São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...

. The population as of 2004 was 16,425. The area is 932.832 km².

Tourism

In Altinópolis five rivers give us 35 waterfalls. San Waterfall | Waterfall and Waterfalls | Cascades for all tastes. And one of them is 72 meters high.

Eight caves in textbooks are part of their tourist itinerary, highlighting the Itambé Cave, which offers a façade of 28 meters and some 350 meters of galleries. The Department of Tourism gives visitors the necessary information and support, the stand of the city was successful in the last Hall of São Paulo Tourism. But the treat for the eyes are the works of Vaccarini.

Museum
The municipality has Altinópolis one of only three open-air museums around the world, ie Altinópolis are scattered in the beautiful sculptures of themasterVaccarini Bassano. He was born in Italy (Milan) and arrived in Brazil after World War II, choosing as his Altinópolis great workshop.

Besides being a professor of Visual Arts at FAU-USP (São Paulo) and Unaerp (in Ribeirao Preto, where he lived), it was a costume designer, set designer, director of the Brazilian Comedy Theater, painter and sculptor noted.