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
In the midst of the skyscrapers and the bustling shops of the city centre, the Pateo do Collegio, a colonial building that marks the birth of this great metropolis, is the birthplace of São Paulo. Here was a hut where 13 Jesuits lived, including José de Anchieta and Father Manoel da Nóbrega, who were responsible for evangelize native Indians in the region. It is on this hill near the rivers Tamanduateí and Anhangabaú that the charming village of São Paulo de Piratininga was founded. The official ceremony of the founding of the city took place in December 1556, but the modest house was enlarged to become a Jesuit college. The expulsion of the nuns by the Marquis de Pombal was an opportunity to transform the place into the Palais des Gouverneurs between 1765 and 1908. The building regained its original vocation between 1932 and 1953, before being transformed into the Ministry of Education by the government. From that date, the Jesuits built the Père Museum and the nearby Beato Anchieta church. Today the museum has seven halls dedicated to sacred art, an art gallery, an Indian daily newspaper and a model from São Paulo in the th century. Visitors can enter the historical library and attend the Jesuit mass. Every third Sunday of the month, the event «Mec pro Pateo no Domingo» is organized here, where there are crafts and painting shops and classical music concerts.
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Le musée propose des objets anciens, indigènes.