Site of the Candinha, Colonial casa grande in Guarulhos, Brazil.
The Sítio da Candinha is a 195-square-metre casa grande built around 1825 on the Fazenda Bananal, with walls of rammed earth (taipa de pilão) and a Baroque-colonial style noted by municipal technicians in 1941. It has 12 rooms and 14 windows; the central window on the south façade has a one-metre guard rail. Inside, an oratory is set into the wall like an altar.
The land was granted by sesmaria in 1717 to Amador Bueno da Veiga and later passed to his descendant Antônio Bueno da Silveira, who had the 195-square-metre rammed-earth house built on Fazenda Bananal around 1825. The municipality listed it as heritage on 26 December 2000 and declared it of public utility in 2004; the expropriated area became the Parque Natural Municipal da Cultura Negra Sítio da Candinha on 22 December 2008.
The name comes from Cândida Maria Rodrigues, nicknamed Candinha, second wife of Olegário de Almeida Barbosa; it spread after his death in 1932, when she took over the farm. Inside, one room holds a wooden oratory set against the wall like an altar, about 2.9 m high and 1.7 m wide, decorated with sacred images and gold-toned details.
The site is currently closed to visitors as restoration work continues on its historical elements and wooden features. You should check ahead to learn about any future opening or access opportunities.
A window on the southern side of the building was specially designed to provide a direct view of agricultural work happening on the property. This feature reveals how carefully controlled colonial operations were organized.
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