Palace of the Bandeirantes

The Bandeirantes Palace (in Portuguese, Palácio dos Bandeirantes) is the official headquarters of the State Government of São Paulo. Located in the Morumbi neighborhood, in the city of São Paulo, its construction began in 1955, to house the Conde Francisco Matarazzo Foundation University, but due to financial problems, the work was paralyzed.

Entities such as the Getúlio Vargas Foundation and the São Paulo Foundation were contacted to resume the work and assume their management, but it was not successful. For this reason, negotiations began with the government of the State of São Paulo, which on April 19, 1964, moved the headquarters of the state government of the Palace of the Champs Elysees to the Bandeirantes Palace.

The name of the palace is a tribute to the bandeirantes pioneers who, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, entered the present Brazilian territory, thus expanding the frontiers. It has a rich artistic heritage of almost 1700 works; among them paintings by great Brazilian Romantic painters of the 19th century, such as Almeida Júnior, Oscar Pereira da Silva and Pedro Américo, which are on display to the public.

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