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Practicalities
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Coming from SA?o Paulo, be sure to remember that buses to Santos leave from the Jabaquara RodoviA?ria and not from TietA?. In Santos, there are
tourist offices
at the RodoviA?ria in Centro, and at the corner of Avenida Ana Costa and the seafront Avenida Presidente Wilson in Gonzaga, but their opening hours are very haphazard.
Changing money
in Santos is easy, with banks on PraA§a da RepA?blica in Centro and on Rua XV de Novembro.
Hotels
in Santos are concentrated in
Gonzaga
, a
bairro
of apartment buildings, restaurants and bars alongside the beach, facing the BaAa de Santos. Good places include the comfortable
Gonzaga,
at Av. Presidente Wilson 36 (tel 013/244-1411; $20-35), the once grand, but now rather decrepit,
Avenida Palace
(tel 013/289-3555; $35-50) at no. 10 on the same avenue, and the
Ritz,
set back at Av. Marechal Deodoro 24 (tel 013/284-1171; $35-50). There are some reasonable seafood
restaurants
in Centro (try
CafA© Paulista
at PraA§a Rui Barbosa 8, or
Rocky
at PraA§a dos Andradas 5), but otherwise they are almost all in Gonzaga. For souvenir hunters, the most distinctive local items are embroideries, the product of the descendants of immigrants who came to Santos in the late nineteenth century from the Portuguese island of Madeira. The best source is the Unidade Regional de ProduA§A?o do Morro de SA?o Bento, Largo do SA?o Bento 120, near the Igreja do Valongo in Centro (tel 013/222-2211). Other useful information
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