Villa Belfiore

History

Built in 1987 by Construtora Adolpho Lindenbergi, Villa Belfiore occupies a 2,257 sqm plot on the first stretch of Oscar Freirei — the section that begins at Rua da Consolaçãoi and still belongs to Cerqueira Césari, before the street turns into a shopping showcase. The equation that defines the building lies in a pair of numbers: 2,257 sqm of land for 22 apartments. It is a density from another era, built when a large plot was still available two blocks from Avenida Paulistai and the law allowed spending it on setbacks, garden and distance from the property line instead of units.

• Concept: few families on a lot of land — privacy solved through distance and garden, not wall height.
• Curiosities: the building was born with generous front and side setbacks and its own visitor parking spaces, two features that have practically disappeared from projects in the area as the price per square meter rose. The penthouse currently on the market occupies the tower’s 22nd floor.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower, set well back into the lot, with a ground-floor garden and setbacks on every face — the classic Lindenbergi solution for a large plot in a consolidated neighbourhood. The façade has restrained lines from the late-1980s vintage, and it has aged without a date stamp: no mirrored glass, no blind end wall shouting the year it was built. From above, the apartments look out over the greenery of Jardim Europai and the inner blocks of Jardinsi — a view no new neighbour can build, because there is no more land left to rise in front of it. The authorship of the architectural project and the landscaping signature are not documented in any public source and, for that reason, are not attributed here.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: 1 tower, 22 apartments.
• Floor areas: 300 to 354 sqm in the standard floor plans, with up to 4 bedrooms and 2 to 4 suites. The listings in circulation record units of up to 477 sqm and a 318 sqm penthouse on the 22nd floor.
• Parking: 2 to 4 spaces, with a private storage unit in the garage.
• Structural highlights: 2,257 sqm plot for 22 units, generous front and side setbacks, ground-floor garden, visitor parking, armoured lobby.
• Registry and parameters: plot 2,257 sqm · 1 tower · 22 units · private areas from 300 sqm to 477 sqm · up to 4 bedrooms · 2 to 4 suites · 2 to 4 parking spaces · delivered 1987.

Leisure and facilities

• Gym
• Playground
• Garden
• Visitor parking
• Armoured 24-hour lobby

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Cerqueira César: the address

Cerqueira Césari is the neighbourhood the city learned to call Jardinsi without ever changing the name on the map. The initial stretch of Oscar Freirei, between Rua da Consolaçãoi and Rua Bela Cintrai, is the residential step that underpins the famous street: it sits a few minutes’ walk from the shop windows, the tables and the galleries, and a few minutes’ drive from Avenida Paulistai, Hospital Sírio-Libanêsi and MASPi. It is an address that does not depend on novelty — the tree cover, the street-level shops and the road network have been consolidated for half a century, and the Estação Oscar Freirei subway station arrived later, for a neighbourhood that was already complete.