Coffee museum
Machines and tools.
Vladimir Benincasa / Grupo de Pesquisa Patrimônio, Cidades e Territórios — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sandra Soster — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sandra Soster — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sandra Soster — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sandra Soster — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Andres Buerckas — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Vladimir Benincasa / Grupo de Pesquisa Patrimônio, Cidades e Territórios — CC BY-SA 4.0
Fazenda Lageado began in 1870, when three planters from Rio Claro started clearing the forest here. In 1881 the land passed to the lawyer João Batista da Rocha Conceição, who forced enslaved people to plant more than 600,000 coffee trees; after abolition, European immigrants took their place. Its buildings were designed for coffee on a large scale, and it became one of the largest private export coffee estates in São Paulo state, peaking in 1920, with its own station on the railway line to ship the harvest. In 1934 it became a federal agricultural research station, and since 1972 it has been the campus of the São Paulo State University (UNESP) agricultural faculty. Today the farm houses a coffee museum in its historic buildings, displaying machinery, tools and the story of the coffee cycle in rural São Paulo amid the university's wide green grounds. Check the museum's opening times before visiting.
Machines and tools.
Coffee architecture.
Wide campus.
Campus of the UNESP Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Botucatu
It belongs to UNESP's Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in Botucatu.