Cidade da Criança

The Cidade da Criança ('Children's City') is a Brazilian amusement park located in the center of São Bernardo do Campo, in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, behind the former Vera Cruz Film Studios. It was the first theme park in Brazil and in Latin America, when it opened on October 10, 1968. It is divided into three themed areas. One of the themes is the Amazon, containing a replica of the Amazon Theatre, the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad and several other characteristic figures of the region. Among its most famous attractions, is a replica of a submarine (with 2.75 million liters of water that made the Cidade da Criança the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere and the third overall park with this attraction), a plane, the Minhocão (roller coaster), the Casa Maluca (Crazy House), among others. The park was built in the 1950s as a studio for recording the soap opera Redenção, from TV Excelsior. Even after the end of the soap opera in 1968, visits by the public to the city continued. This was also the first Brazilian film city. The land and area built for the recording of the soap opera Redenção were listed by the Municipal Council of Historical and Cultural Heritage in 1990.

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