Inscribed tiles
18th century.
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Casa do Sítio da Ressaca is a bandeirista-style building surviving from the colonial period in the Jabaquara district of south São Paulo, on the old road to Santo Amaro. It was built in 1719, as inscriptions on its main door and tiles attest; some of its roof tiles are original and carry eighteenth-century inscriptions with the date of manufacture and the potter's name, and its doors and frames of canela-preta wood are also original. Its name probably comes from the Ressaca stream that once ran around it. It is built of rammed earth on an asymmetric plan, unusual among bandeirista houses, with side-lintelled windows and doors and a two-sided roof. The house was lived in until 1969, when it was expropriated to build the São Paulo metro; it was then restored, protected as state heritage and reopened in 1979, and restored again after a small fire in 1986. It now stands in a small park and hosts cultural activities as one of the São Paulo City Museum's houses.
18th century.
A rarity.
Around the house.
Jabaquara district, on the old road to Santo Amaro, south São Paulo
It is near Jabaquara metro station in the south of the city.