Chácara do Carvalho, Heritage site in Santa Cecília District, São Paulo, Brazil.
Chácara do Carvalho is a mansion built from 1890 by Florentine architect Luigi Pucci for Counselor Antônio da Silva Prado, in the Barra Funda district beside the Fepasa railway lines. The property, now occupied by Colégio Boni Consilii, retains the 1920 renovation supervised by Cristiano Stockler das Neves for the Belgian royal visit.
The estate was bought in 1840 by Antônio da Silva Prado, Baron of Iguape, and passed to his grandson, Counselor Antônio da Silva Prado, who lived there with his wife Catarina and eight children from 1893 to 1929. In 1890 the Counselor hired the Florentine Luigi Pucci to build the mansion. In October 1920 it hosted the King and Queen of Belgium after renovations supervised by Cristiano Stockler das Neves. The Counselor died in 1929; his funeral procession left the property on foot for the Consolação Cemetery.
The name Chácara do Carvalho comes from the Carvalho family, who owned the farm before 1840, when Baron of Iguape Antônio da Silva Prado bought it. Streets opened on the subdivided land in 1934 carry the name: Rua Chácara do Carvalho and Rua São Martinho. The Counselor's funeral procession left the property on foot for Cemitério da Consolação in 1929.
The property sits in a central city district well served by bus routes and is within walking distance of major streets. The grounds now function as part of a school, so visiting is best arranged outside school hours or by prior arrangement.
The house welcomed high-ranking foreign guests in the 1920s, underlining its role as a social gathering place for the city's wealthy. This exclusive status faded once it later transitioned to educational use.
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