Museum
Casa das Rosas
Belle Époque French-style mansion, last coffee-baron villa standing on a skyscraper-lined avenue.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Casa das Rosas on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo traces the avenue back to 1891, when coffee planters began lining it with French-style mansions built on fortunes made far away in the countryside. It follows this particular house to its 1935 completion, designed by architect Francisco de Paula Ramos de Azevedo as a home for his own daughter, with a marble staircase, stained glass and a garden modeled loosely on Versailles. Look for that garden and its namesake roses out front as you listen.
This audio guide was created using AI.