page_title: Engenho dos Erasmos
section_title: Ruins
hierarchical_section_title: Engenho dos Erasmos / Ruins
caption_attribution_description: English: Engenho dos Erasmos
context_page_description: Engenho dos Erasmos or Engenho São Jorge dos Erasmos was a sugar cane facility on the island of São Vicente, Brazil. Constructed around 1534, the engenho was owned for most of its working life by the Schetz family. It is now a ruin, national monument and tourist destination.
context_section_description: The mill was abandoned in the 18th century and largely forgotten about until the 20th century. The site was owned by various families, including Braz Esteves, Pedrosa, Góis, Muniz Guimarães, Viana, Marques do Vale, Graça Martins and Toledo.
  In 1943 the land and the ruins were purchased by Otávio Ribeiro de Araújo. He donated it to the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras in 1958 and it has been administered by the University of São Paulo since then. While not much preservation work was carried out between 1958 and the end of the 1980s, this changed in the 1990s and 2000s, when archaeological excavations took place at the site. Over 2,000 fragments, including animal and human bones dating from the 16th century, were recovered during the excavations.
  The ruins are now a national monument, registered by IPHAN in 1963 and CONDEPHAAT in 1974. It is open for visitors, with free entry from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday through Sunday each week and various events are held at the site, including workshops and concerts.
caption: The ruins of the chapel
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