The story of
Palácio Tangará
São Paolo’s urban oasis surrounded by the tropical foliage of Burle Marx Park.
Romantic beginnings
In the late 1940s, the extraordinarily wealthy playboy industrialist Francisco 'Baby' Pignatari was renowned for romancing glamorous women in the world’s most glamorous places, dispatching diamond necklaces, demijohns of perfume and roomfuls of flowers. In one magnificently romantic gesture, Baby built Tangará for his beautiful wife Ira von Fürstenberg. But ultimately, he couldn’t resist the playboy lifestyle and both his wife and Tangará were abandoned – until Oetker Hotels revived the palace for its guests.
Brazilian businessman Francisco Pignatari commissions architect Oscar Niemeyer and landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx to build a mansion with lavish gardens for his beloved wife. The couple’s marriage eventually dissolves, and the home is destroyed, but the gardens are turned into an expansive urban park.
Plans to rebuild a hotel on the property are abandoned.
Oetker Hotels opens Palácio Tangará, bringing back Francisco Pignatari’s dream of a lavish luxury urban retreat in São Paulo surrounded by lush green gardens.
Palácio Tangará opens a new outdoor restaurant, Pateo do Palácio, the largest outdoor dining venue in São Paolo.