Commissioned by the government of São Paulo in 1921, the Monument to the Flags also known as Push – Push or Leave -Who- I – I push, located in Armando Salles de Oliveira Square in front of the Government Palace and the Ibirapuera Park, is the pioneers who paved the country, such as Portuguese, blacks, Indians and Mamluks, pulling a monsoon canoe, used in river expeditions.

Monumento às Bandeiras. Foto: José Cordeiro/SPTuris

The work, which was performed by Victor Brecheret, has 240 granite blocks, weighing 50 tons each, 50 m long and 16 m high. The monument was inaugurated in 1954, along with the Ibirapuera Park, in celebration of the fourth centenary of the city of São Paulo.