Neoclassical façade
Cocoa wealth.
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The Paranaguá Palace is a historic building in the historic centre of Ilhéus, Bahia, named after the Marquis of Paranaguá, president of the province of Bahia in imperial times, who in 1881 raised the town of São Jorge dos Ilhéus to city status by provincial law. The palace is listed as Bahia state heritage, a symbol of the wealth the region knew in the cocoa era, and one of the most important neoclassical buildings in the state's interior. It was built between 1898 and 1907, its cornerstone laid on 22 January 1898 and its opening on 22 December 1907, on the site of an old school built by the Jesuits. It was meant to house the town administration and remained one of its seats until the 2010s, with improvements made between 1912 and 1916. The palace embodies the age of the «cocoa barons» whose lives the novelist Jorge Amado immortalised, and it stands a few steps from the Jorge Amado cultural house. It is seen on a walk through the historic centre of Ilhéus, together with the old town's streets and cafés.
Cocoa wealth.
Steps away.
Old Ilhéus.
Historic centre, Ilhéus, Bahia
Between 1898 and 1907; it opened on 22 December 1907.
