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Those storehouses used to be a place where the young people from the village received professional certification classes to work at Sao Paulo Railway company, in Paranapiacaba, Sao Paulo state, Brazil.

About the Village: In the mid-19th century, the São Paulo Railway Company, a privately owned British railway company, laid a snaking network of tracks over Brazil’s green mountains. In order to transport coffee beans from inland plantations to the port of Santos on the south coast, a railroad funicular was incorporated that could lift entire trains full of cargo over the undulating terrain.

A British company provided the steam engines that drove the operation and also founded a workers’ village on the highest point in the area, called Paranapiacaba, meaning “a place to view the sea” in Tupi-Guarani. The small houses for railway and funicular employees were constructed from wood, in a style similar to those of British mining towns.

Paranapiacaba’s civic buildings and larger homes were Victorian in design, and its train station was adorned with a clock tower in imitation of London’s Big Ben.

Source: World Monuments Fund
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Source Abandoned Storehouses
Author Diego Torres Silvestre from Sao Paulo, Brazil
Camera location23° 46′ 41.22″ S, 46° 18′ 06.18″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Diego3336 at https://flickr.com/photos/31018257@N00/10829310643. It was reviewed on 18 September 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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