The palace
1887.
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Fazenda Santa Maria do Monjolinho is a historic farm in São Carlos, inland São Paulo state, on the banks of the Monjolinho river. The state heritage council listed it on 22 June 2016, and it is part of the rural circuit of listed historic farms in the municipality. It began in 1850 with the family of Major José Inácio de Camargo, its main activity being coffee grown by enslaved labour; at the time its only buildings were the overseer's house and the windowless slave quarters. In 1887 it was enlarged with a small palace of European architecture and refinement to receive Emperor Pedro II, who was due in São Carlos to open the railway, but he never came to the farm, and it was later sold because of the debts the palace had left. Today the farm offers tours on sugarcane, milk and coffee production, walking trails and a permanent «living museum» on the ground floor of the main house, telling the story of coffee and slavery in the region. Check booking and times.
1887.
Main house.
Coffee, cane, milk.
São Carlos, São Paulo state
To receive Emperor Pedro II in 1887, though he never visited the farm.