Calçadão – a popular street shopping area. Rua XV de Novembro – located in Praça Afonso Pena, the town square. This street was the main street in São José dos Campos in the 1950s and 1960s. On the weekends, handcraft exhibitions are held there and in other squares. Other streets: Rua Rubião Júnior, Rua Vilaça, Rua Siqueira Campos and Rua Sebastião Hummel. the Municipal Market (popular groceries, stores); And newer areas such as: Avenida Francisco José Longo and Avenida Nelson D´Ávila (hotels and maintenance services); Avenida Nove de Julho (fashionable boutiques and restaurants) Rua Luis Jacinto (nightclubs and restaurants); Avenida São João (with a small mall with exquisite boutiques called Shopping Esplanada, as well as restaurants and schools); Avenida Adhemar de Barros, where there are schools and the Santos-Dumont Park. The Vila Ema district has sites for nightlife including bars and restaurants. Sites Several fairs and expositions are done at the two pavilions located in the city. A list of notable sites: Augusto Ruschi Biological Reserve Burle Marx Municipal Park with the Olivo Gomes residence CTA and MAB (Brazilian Aerospace Memorial) Espaço Mário Covas (former City Council seat) INPE – (National Institute for Space Research) Sanatorium Vicentina Aranha Santos Dumont Park (total area: 46.347 m2) Sister city Kadoma, Osaka A Japanese garden is open for visits within the Santos-Dumont Park, celebrating the sister cities. Entertainment, leisure and sports Although São José is an industrial center, the city still preserves green areas and quiet town districts. Around 62% of the area from the municipality is characterized as an environmental preservation area. On the outskirts of the urban area, Augusto Ruschi Ecology Reserve has many local plant species. The natural reserve has , being a government protect area for the local flora. São Francisco Xavier is a community the offers many of those attributes as well. Furthermore, there is an easy access to the mountain cities (Campos do Jordão, Santo Antônio do Pinhal) and to the beaches of the Northern Coast of São Paulo, being both of the areas in a distance of only 80 km from São José dos Campos. The city has three major parks and several sports and country clubs. Tenis Clube and Associação Esportiva São José have hosted the 35th Banana Bowl International Tennis Federation Juniors Circuit in 2005 and 2006. A soccer stadium, called Estádio Martins Pereira, is the home ground of São José Esporte Clube, a