Venue: Júlio Prestes (CPTM)
Address: Praça Júlio Prestes 148, 01218-020 São Paulo
Town: São Paulo, BR

Júlio Prestes is a train station on ViaMobilidade Linhas 8 e 9 Line 8-Diamond, located in the district of Santa Cecília in São Paulo. This historical station was named after former Governor of São Paulo and former President-elect of Brazil, Júlio Prestes. Currently, the station serves only Line 8-Diamond. The station is the head office of the State Secretariat of Culture of São Paulo and, since 1999, the concert house for the São Paulo Symphonic Orchestra (Osesp), Sala São Paulo. In Praça Júlio Prestes, it is possible to see the bronze statue of Alfredo Maia and the iron abstract structure of Emanoel Araújo. The original stations was opened on 10 July 1872 by Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana, which was one of the most important railways in Brazil, and it was named São Paulo Station. Its function was to transport coffee bean bags from southwest and western São Paulo and northern Paraná to the capital. The old station was aside from Luz Station, what facilitated the coffee transportation for São Paulo Railway, the only railway that had a route from São Paulo to Santos. The station connected São Paulo to Piracicaba, Santos and Presidente Epitácio, on the border with Mato Grosso do Sul. After getting rich with the coffee transportation, it was decided to build a new and bigger station. The second and current station was projected by Cristiano Stockler das Neves and Samuel das Neves in 1925, but the construction was completed only in 1938, due to the economic instability, which affected almost all the capitalist countries at the time, caused by the Great Depression. Even far from being completed, at the end of the construction of part of the project (platform area), the boarding began to work in this station. With 25,000 square metres (270,000 sq ft), the station was inspired by the New York terminals Grand Central and Pennsylvania and projected by architects Cristiano Stockler das Neves and Samuel das Neves. In 1927, the project was awarded in the 3rd Panamerican Architects