Claim: Pátio do Colégio, a historical Jesuit church and school in the city of São Paulo which started out as a modest hut covered with palm leaves, was finished using taipa de pilão or rammed earth.
Evidence: Pátio do Colégio (in Portuguese School Yard, written in the archaic orthography Pateo do Collegio) is the name given to the historical Jesuit church and school in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Initially, the church building was a modest hut covered with palm leaves or straw. In 1556, under father Afonso Brás, new buildings of the school and church were finished using taipa de pilão (rammed earth), a more solid technique.