Coffee farms
Historic seats.
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Queluz is a small town of about nine thousand people in the Paraíba Valley of eastern São Paulo state, near the Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais borders, a short drive from Itatiaia and Resende. It grew in 1800 from a village of the Indigenous Puri people, becoming a «vila» in 1842 and a municipality in 1876. Its name honours the royal family, after the Queluz palace near Lisbon where Emperor Pedro I was born. The town grew with coffee in the nineteenth century, and that era left important cultural landmarks, among them the still-standing seats of old coffee farms such as Sertão, São José, Restauração and Bela Aurora. The Mantiqueira hills surround it, making it a quiet stop on the historic coffee route of the valley.
Historic seats.
The coffee route.
Around the town.
Queluz, Paraíba Valley, eastern São Paulo state
From the Queluz palace near Lisbon where Pedro I was born.