Monumento às Bandeiras is Victor Brecheret's massive granite monument near Ibirapuera Park, showing the bandeirantes and the many peoples drawn into São Paulo's colonial expansion. It is one of the city's most recognisable public sculptures.
The monument is impressive as sculpture, but it also carries a complicated history. It is worth seeing alongside Ibirapuera Park and nearby museums, with a little time to think about how São Paulo chooses to remember its origins.