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The Associação Brasileira de Preservação Ferroviária (ABPF) (Brazilian Association of Railway Preservation) is a non profit organization and was founded in 1977 by Frenchman Patrick Henri Ferdinand Dollinger, and brings together those interested in preserving and disseminating the history of Brazilian railroad. Fond of steam locomotives and railways, Patrick came to Brazil in 1966 and concerned with the abandonment of the Brazilian railway history, decided to create an entity preservation, similar to those existing in Europe and the United States. In 1979 ABPF received from São Paulo state government the concession to use and operate a 24 km deactivated branch of Fepasa Railway in Campinas city. The society started the restoration of stations and tracks. Soon it started gathering rolling stock all around the country, that were borrowed by the government. This later became the Viação Ferrea Campinas Jaguariuna (Campinas Jaguariuna Railroad). ABPF is split in several local chapters, known as regionals. The current chapters are: Regional de Campinas: responsible for the Viação Ferrea Campinas Jaguariuna Regional São Paulo: operates broad gauge steam train at São Paulo city and Paranapiacaba district Regional Rio de Janeiro: keeps a small museum and a model railroad. Regional Santa Catarina: operates steam trains at Rio Negrinho, Piratuba and Apiúna. Regional Paraná: currently restoring rolling stock at Curitiba and planning an operation. Regional Sul de Minas: operates three tourist train rides, one at Passa Quatro MG, one at São Lourenço MG and another at Guararema SP (another state) , also keeps a steam locomotive repair shop at Cruzeiro SPABPF is the largest steam operator of heritage railways in Brazil.

Parque Portugal, also known as Lagoa do Taquaral (Portuguese pronunciation: [laˈɡoɐ du taˈkwaɾaw]), is an urban public park in the city of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. It has been set around a beautiful lagoon and adjacent wooded park, and is a large municipal entertainment and sports park, with a planetarium, a science museum, an indoor sports stadium and swimming pool, kart racing and model airplane areas, an open concert auditorium, floating caravel replica, a working historical tramway, pedalos, facilities for several types of sports, including a long track for running, cycling and walking, restaurants, etc. Taquaral means "bamboo grove" in Portuguese, probably because the lagoon was originally rimmed with this kind of plant (it no longer is, instead eucalyptus trees have been planted around it). The name Portugal was given as a homage to the immigrants of Brazil, the Portuguese people. The heritage tram line around the park opened in 1972 and uses four historic trams. The tramway was newly built at that time and opened only four years after the termination of the city's last tram service.In July 2007, Campinas readers of the Correio Popular newspaper and the Cosmo site have voted Lagoa do Taquaral as one of the "Seven Wonders of Campinas".

The Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (Portuguese: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, PUC-Campinas; Portuguese pronunciation: [põtʃiˈfisjɐ univeʁsiˈdadʒi kaˈtɔlikɐ dʒi kɐ̃ˈpinɐs]) is a private and non-profit Catholic university, located in Campinas, the second largest city in the State of São Paulo. The university is maintained by the Catholic Archdiocese of Campinas.

The School of Medical Sciences (Portuguese: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, FCM) is a college of the State University of Campinas, located in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. It offers courses at the undergraduate level in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and speech therapy, as well as courses at graduate and postgraduate level (specialization, master's, doctorate, and medical residency). Affiliated clinical centers are the Clinics Hospital, the Hospital of Sumaré, the Center for Women Integral Health Care (CAISM), the Gastroenterology Center, the Pediatrics Center, the Haemocenter of Campinas, and several others. It has also a nucleus of experimental medical research. The School is considered one of the foremost Brazilian excellence centers in teaching, research and health care services.

The Hospital das Clínicas da Unicamp (Clinics Hospital of the University of Campinas, in Portuguese language) is a teaching hospital (Hospital das Clínicas) located in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil. The largest public hospital in the region, it serves a population around 3.5 million people. It is a tertiary hospital, with all the medical specialties and medico-surgical services represented. It offers a total of more than 600 beds.

The Instituto Agronômico de Campinas (Portuguese pronunciation: [ĩstʃiˈtutu aɡɾoˈnomiku dʒi kɐ̃ˈpinɐs]) (Agronomical Institute of Campinas—IAC) is a research and development institution affiliated to the Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios (São Paulo Agency of Agrobusiness Technology), of the Secretary of Agriculture of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with headquarters in the city of Campinas. It is the oldest institution of its kind in Latin America, having been founded by Emperor Dom Pedro II in 1887 as the Imperial Agronomical Station of Campinas. In 1892 it was transferred to the state government. IAC's mission is to research, generate and transfer science and technology devoted to agriculture and related applied fields, with the aim of optimizing plant production, sustainable socio-economic development and environmental quality. As of January 2005, the Institute had 172 scientific researchers and 391 auxiliary and clerical workers. Besides the headquarters, a set of building in beautiful neoclassic style in Campinas' downtown, IAC operates a Central Experimental Center and four other Advanced Research Centers, with several experimental farms, comprising a total of 12.79 square kilometres of land. The Institute also operates a botanical garden and a herbarium. The Institute's activities center around the following areas:

CPQD is a Research and Development Center in Telecommunications and one of the largest Latin American R&D centers in Telecommunications and IT. Located in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, CPQD has operated as a contractor for institutions and enterprises in a wide range of fields: telecommunications, finance, energy, industrial, corporate and public administration.

The Escola Preparatória de Cadetes do Exército - EsPCEx (Brazilian Army Preparatory School of Cadets) is a coeducational one-year military school in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. EsPCEx started construction in 1944, but due to budget constraints, did not open until the late 1960's. EsPCEx is for students wanting to become commissioned officers in the Brazilian Armed Forces. It prepares candidates for entrance into the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (AMAN). The coursework at EsPCEx compares to the first year at a regular higher education institution, but with the addition of military subjects. There is also an emphasis on physical training. After graduating from EsPCEx, students enter AMAN or received the Reserve Certificate for the military service they performed at EsPCEx. In 2012, EsPCEx became the first level of the five year course for Brazilian Army Battle Commissioned Officers; the other four levels of the course are performed at AMAN.

The School of Mechanical Engineering (Portuguese: Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica, FEM) is one of the colleges at the State University of Campinas in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs in mechanical engineering and mechatronics. FEM is one of the most highly regarded schools for mechanical engineering and mechatronics in both Brazil and Latin America, as well being ranked the highest on the CAPES evaluation.

Barão Geraldo (Portuguese pronunciation: [baˈɾɐ̃w ɡeˈɾawdu]) is a district of the municipality of Campinas, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is named after Barão Geraldo de Rezende, a baron of the Empire of Brazil who owned a large farm in the region, in the 19th century. Barão Geraldo is approximately 15 km (9.3 mi) from downtown Campinas and it is mainly connected to it via the Rodovia Campinas-Paulínia highway. Barão Geraldo is famous for hosting the main campus of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). The university campus is surrounded by typical suburban communities, the Cidade Universitária Campineira, so named because many professors and a large number of students reside there; as well as by gated condominiums, such as Rio das Pedras, Barao do Cafe and Santa Eudoxia, and many old farms, such as Pau D'Alho, Santa Eudóxia, Rio das Pedras and Santa Genebra. The University itself and the surrounding residential communities were built on a former coffee and sugarcane plantation. Barão Geraldo is one of the greenest districts of Campinas. It has several lakes and the Mata of Santa Genebra, a large preservation area where the original rain forest which covered the region in the past can be seen and is studied by the University. It still has a large diversity of plants and animals, including the capybara and the spotted jaguars. Near UNICAMP, the district hosts also a large high-tech industrial zone (with several companies, such as Nortel); three research and development institutions; the Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Telecomunicações (CPqD), in telecommunications and information technology; and the Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron and the Instituto Eldorado. It is considered the main part of the so-called Brazilian Silicon Valley. The expansion of its technological park has attracted other institutions, which are planned to settle in Barão Geraldo in the near future, such as the Technological Center of the Brazilian Army, the Research and Development Center of Natura cosmetics company and others. Barão Geraldo is also a major health care destination in the state, with the large University Clinics Hospital, the Centro Médico de Campinas, the Centro Infantil Domingos A. Boldrini (a children's cancer hospital), and the Centro de Oncologia Campinas (a cancer treatment polyclinic). The district has a sub-mayor and has about 45,000 inhabitants living in 70 sections.

The Basilica of Our Lady of Carmel (Portuguese: Basílica Nossa Senhora do Carmo) Also Basilica of Campinas Is a basilica located in the sector of Largo do Carmo, in the center of Campinas in the state of São Paulo in the south of Brazil. Originally it was the main church of the city and around which it developed Campinas. The original building began on July 14, 1774, with the first Mass, when the founding of the parish and the city of Campinas took place. It was a temporary matrix, covered with straw, located where today stands the monument to Carlos Gomes. This provisional matrix worked from the foundation of the city until it was ready the definitive mother church, that opened 25 July 1781. This church was the seat of the parish of Our Lady of the Conception, during the colony in and time of the Empire of Brazil. This "old matrix" was almost destroyed in the 1920s, with the exception of the main altar and the towers when there was the construction of the existing church today, inspired by the neo-Gothic style.

The State University of Campinas Institute of Biology (Portuguese: Instituto de Biologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas) is a research and higher education institution located at UNICAMP's main campus in the district of Barão Geraldo in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.