Hotels in São Caetano do Sul

São Caetano do Sul is one of the ABC Paulista towns on the southeastern edge of Greater São Paulo, so small and built-up that you cross into it without noticing the city line. Italian immigrants founded it in the late nineteenth century, and that heritage still shows in its family bakeries, cantinas and parish festivals. Its modern identity is industrial and middle-class: General Motors has long run a major plant here, and the city is regularly cited as having one of the highest human development indexes in Brazil, which translates into tidy streets, good services and a reputation for safety by metropolitan standards.

There is little here for sightseers, and most visitors come for business with GM, its suppliers or nearby firms. Central São Paulo, including the Cathedral, is reachable by suburban train, and Congonhas airport is relatively close, though Guarulhos is a long cross-city trip in traffic. Stay near the town centre and the CPTM Line 10 station, where you get restaurants on foot and the easiest rail link into São Paulo.