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Cultural Landscape of Paranapiacaba

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  • Alejandro Lau
  • João Aender
Paranapiacaba was a Railway Village built by a British company in the 19th century. The village was created as a European-style company town for the railway workers, who were often immigrants. The railway itself was a piece of ingenuity as it had to conquer the Serra do Mar Mountain Range.

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Cultural Landscape of Paranapiacaba: Village and railway systems in the Serra do Mar Mountain Range, São Paulo (ID: 5878)
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On tentative list 2014 Site history
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2014: Added to Tentative List
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