Vila Itororó, Protected architectural complex in Bela Vista, São Paulo, Brazil.

Vila Itororó is a protected residential complex in Bela Vista, featuring a main palace and 37 houses with columns salvaged from the demolished Teatro São José and round windows decorated with stained glass featuring national symbols. The buildings are arranged around communal leisure spaces on a cohesive hillside property.

Portuguese contractor Francisco de Castro built the complex between 1922 and 1929 on uneven ground, with no fixed architectural style, as a rental property around his own mansion. Creditors took over his estate and donated the villa around 1950 to the Hospital Beneficente Augusto de Oliveira Camargo. Squatters occupied it in the 1940s and it became a cortiço; the state paid eight million reais for it in 2009 and the last families left in 2011–2012.

The name comes from the Itororó Creek that once ran past the site before being channeled underground. Since 2021 the complex has operated officially as a cultural center, with restored houses hosting shows, workshops, and seminars. Look for the round windows of the main mansion, whose stained glass depicted the flags of various countries.

The complex sits on Rua Maestro Cardim, where four buildings have been restored and opened for cultural programming and public access. Plan time to explore the various interior spaces, as each building displays different architectural details and design elements.

The complex's pool, fed by the Itororó Creek, was the first private pool for public use in São Paulo. It later filled with mud and stored rusty machinery from the villa's laundry, and in the 1980s it still operated as part of the Eden Liberdade club, with a brick wall built beside it for bathers' privacy.