The Portuguese Government granted the Sesmarias* to Portuguese people and, to stimulate the development of Brazil, they had received lands, and in October 6th of 1796, the Captain Mor Inácio Ferreira de Sá, and in October 20th of 1798, the Captain Mor da Vila de São Carlos Floriano Penteado, received their lands in Brazil.

The Captain Mor Inácio had a son, called Joaquim Ferreira Penteado, who became commentator and received the heading of “Baron of Itatiba”.

The Captain Mor Floriano, who was uncle-grandfather of Joaquim, had a daughter called Francisca de Paula Camargo, known as “Dona Francisca”.

The Baron of Itatiba was married to his cousin Dona Francisca, in May 15th of 1830, joining this way, part of the “sesmarias” and establishing the Farm Two Bridges (Fazenda Duas Pontes).

The tenth third son of the couple, Mr. Inácio de Ferreira Camargo Andrade was married to Dona Brandina Emilia Leite Penteado, and was the heir of Farm Two Bridges. Unfortunately, in one of his travels around Europe, Mr. Inácio contracted an illness and died so young. The couple did not have any children and D. Brandina, still young, was a very rich widower.

D. Brandina was married then, to Artur Furtado Albuquerque Cavalcanti, who had the heading of “Chief Judge Furtado” (“Desembargador Furtado”), passing himself as the new owner of the Farm.

Artur Furtado looked for to benefit the Farm with improvements and many sumptuous workmanships, that exists until nowadays, like the Water Wheel, the Sawframe and the Mill of Corn Meal. He made it an obligation to put the initials of his name “AF” in his workmanships, including the bricks, like those that we still can observe nowadays. For so many workmanships, Artur Furtado spent disorderedly, contracting enormous debts and, this way, he end up being execute for creditors.

The Farm has been took to auction and bought at auction by Colonel Cristiano Osório de Oliveira, for approximately 600 “contos de réis” (money of that period).

Admirable administrator, he turned the Farm into one of the main agricultural properties of Campinas, with magnificent farming, cattle of race animals and beautiful installations. He also produced around of 100.000 bags of coffee for year, flowing off the production by the train station “Tanquinho” and by the Carlos Gomes’s Station, which belongs to the Company Mogiana of Railroad, which rails run until today by the nearness of the Hotel.

With the dead of the Colonel, the Farm had been gave for his heirs that decided to divide the lands and sell the area of approximately 10 “acquires”, where the Big House is situated.

The Farm was despised for ten years.

Finally, in 1971, the Engineer Dr. Roberto Ceccarelli, undertaker of extraordinary vision, and his wife Ms. Lúcia Fanele Ceccarelli, had bought the Farm Two Brigdes and, together, transformed it in a Hotel Farm. Baptized as “Hotel Farm Solar das Andorinhas”, the hotel, nowadays, is the most complete of Brazil, preserving it’s colonial style and it’s history, based at “Solar das Andorinhas Preserving the History’s Project” (PAPH).