Monument to the Bandeiras (The Monument to the Flags) is a fifty meters long and sixteen meters high granite sculpture in St. Paul Square, close to Ibirapuera Park located opposite the Palácio Nove de Julho, headquarters of the Legislative Assembly of Sao Paulo. The massive...More

The Monument to Los Bandeiras by Victor Brecheret sits at one of the entrances to Sao Paulo's Ibirapuera Park. Commissioned by the city and completed in 1954, it depicts through massive granite blocks and a heroic socialist realist style the struggle and triumph of the...More

Monument to the Bandeiras is a very impressive piece of art! It is worth walking all the way around it to appreciate it in full.

We walked to Ibirapuera Park from Paulista Avenue and before you reach the park you come across the Monument. It is impressive and you must stop here for a photo before entering the park.

Monument to the Bandeiras is a large-rough sculpture at the entrance of Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo. You will see it in case you visit the Ibirapuera Park, otherwise there is no reason to arrange a visit specific for it.

This is next to the park and really draws you to it when you are in the park but when you get there it's impressive but with very little signage so you've no idea what you are looking at and what it commerorates. Impressive sculpture...More

This monument is one of the cities post card points. It represents a key moment in Brazil's history and is one of those that I had heard about since infancy. The area around it is somewhat busy with main roads, but the nearby Ibirapuera park...More