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Taubaté is a city in the Paraíba Valley of São Paulo state, about 130 km from the state capital, famous as the birthplace of the writer Monteiro Lobato, as the national capital of children's literature in Brazil and as a base for trips to Campos do Jordão and Aparecida.
Founded in the 17th century, the town grew rich on coffee in the 1800s, gaining a railway station in 1876, and in 1906 it gave its name to the Taubaté Agreement on coffee prices, signed by the leaders of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. Its old churches, the Convento de Santa Clara and the Capela do Pilar recall those times.
Visitors tour the farmhouse of the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo, the Museu Mazzaropi and the Italian heritage of the Quiririm district. Beyond the city, the mountain resort of Campos do Jordão and its railway, the colonial town of São Luiz do Paraitinga and the vast Basilica of Aparecida are all within easy reach.
Taubaté Cathedral, dedicated to São Francisco das Chagas, is the seat of the Diocese of Taubaté, created in 1908, and stands in the heart of the city centre. It also serves as the zero mark of the city, the reference point for its official altitude of 580 metres above sea level.
Convento de Santa Clara is a convent built in 1673 in Taubaté, belonging to the Third Order of Saint Francis and listed as state heritage. Described in the 19th century as the largest building in the north of the province, its spacious church could hold up to a thousand people.
Capela de Nossa Senhora do Pilar is an 18th-century chapel in the historic centre of Taubaté, protected as both national and state heritage. Today it houses the Museum of Sacred Art of the city, keeping religious images and objects inside one of the oldest buildings in Taubaté.
Taubaté Railway Station is the old station of the city, a reminder of 1876, when the railway reached Taubaté during the coffee boom and linked it with São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It later served the São Paulo branch of the Central do Brasil railway, and its old building still stands in the city.
Sítio do Picapau Amarelo is the 19th-century farmhouse where the writer Monteiro Lobato was born and lived until the age of 12, home since 1958 to the Museu Monteiro Lobato. Built of rammed earth, it is listed as state and national heritage and has a children's library of his books.
Museu Mazzaropi is a museum in Taubaté dedicated to Amácio Mazzaropi, the comic actor and filmmaker loved across Brazil for his country characters. Opened in 1992, it holds more than 20,000 items, including photographs, films, documents, props and equipment from his career.
Quiririm is a district of Taubaté that began in 1890 as a farming colony of Italian immigrants. Settling on the floodplain of the Paraíba, they drained the land to grow rice and set up rope and brick works, and the Indiani family mansion and a chapel recall that heritage today.
Museu da Imigração Italiana is a museum in the Quiririm district of Taubaté, set in the mansion of the Indiani family from Cremona, built between 1897 and 1903 in the style of northern Italy. Restored and opened in 1997, it tells the story of the Italian immigrants who settled in the region.
Campos do Jordão is a mountain resort in the Serra da Mantiqueira north of Taubaté, at 1,628 metres the highest town seat in Brazil. A climatic resort with a mild, cool climate, it has been one of the country's main winter destinations since the 1950s and makes a popular day trip.
Estrada de Ferro Campos do Jordão is an electric railway that climbs from Pindamonhangaba to Campos do Jordão through the Serra da Mantiqueira, owned by the state of São Paulo. Today it carries passengers only, mostly on scenic tourist rides up into the mountains and back again.
São Luiz do Paraitinga is a small town in the hills south-east of Taubaté, whose historic centre of more than 450 buildings is protected as national heritage. It is famed for its caipira traditions, including the Festa do Divino, a country food festival and a carnival of old-style marchinhas.
Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida is the national shrine of Brazil in the town of Aparecida, the largest Catholic church in the country and second in the world only to St Peter's in Rome. Visited by three popes, it welcomes around 12 million pilgrims a year from all over Brazil.
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