PATEO DO COLLEGIO
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Modest house transformed into a museum with 7 rooms dedicated to sacred art, a picture gallery and a historical library
The Pateo do Collegio, a colonial building that marks the birth of this great metropolis, seems to have survived amidst the skyscrapers and bustling shops of the city center. It was here that São Paulo was officially founded. In a hut lived 13 Jesuits, including José de Anchieta and Father Manoel da Nóbrega, charged with evangelizing the local Indians. It was on this hill near the Tamanduateí and Anhangabaú rivers that the charming village of São Paulo de Piratininga was founded. The official founding ceremony took place in December 1556. The modest house was enlarged to become a Jesuit college. The expulsion of the monks by the Marquis of Pombal provided the opportunity to transform the site into the Governors' Palace between 1765 and 1908. The building returned to its original vocation between 1932 and 1953, when it was once again converted by the government into the Ministry of Education. The Jesuits built the Father Anchieta Museum and Beato Anchieta Church nearby in the 1950s. Today, the museum boasts seven rooms dedicated to sacred art, a picture gallery, objects from the daily lives of the Indians and a model of 16th-century São Paulo. Visitors can enter the historic library and attend the Jesuit mass. Every third Sunday of the month, the "Vem pro Pateo no Domingo" event is held here, featuring craft and painting stores and classical music concerts.
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Le musée propose des objets anciens, indigènes.