Fazenda Santa Helena

History

Fazenda Santa Helena was an orange-producing property, with orange groves and tree-lined avenues that the project decided to preserve as the structure of the landscape. JHSFi turned it into its second country resort condominium — the first was Fazenda Boa Vistai, in Porto Felizi, opened at the end of 2007 — and the logic is declaredly the same: a complete highest-income ecosystem within its own perimeter, an hour from São Paulo, with access via the Rodovia dos Bandeirantesi.

The generational difference lies in the masterplan. While Boa Vista is organised around its two golf courses and the hotel, Santa Helena is born with a system of routes as its backbone: a running circuit, a cycle path, a bridle path and trails run uninterrupted across the entire property, and it is around them — and the lakes — that the estates, plots and villas are distributed. The development was in pre-launch as of August 2026.

• Concept: highest-end country living organised by routes and by plot scales — estates, plots and villas —, with internal movement favouring bicycles and electric carts.
• Curiosities: the golf course is by Jack Nicklausi, the Golden Bear, winner of 117 professional tournaments. The architecture and finishes curation are by Sig Bergamini and Murilo Lomasi — the same pair also signs the Santa Helena Market, the development’s town centre —, and the gardens are by Maria João d’Orey. Fazenda Santa Helena is about thirty kilometres from Quinta da Baronezai, according to reporting by Bloomberg Línea: it is the first competitor of equivalent scale that address has faced in almost three decades.

Architecture and aesthetics

There is no single façade, but rather a curation. The villas and the development’s delivery standard are signed by Sig Bergamini and Murilo Lomasi, and the curation goes down to the detail: flooring, skirting board, paint, ceiling, light fixtures, sanitaryware, hardware, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom cabinetry, air conditioning with linear diffusers in the living rooms and wall units in the bedrooms, appliances camouflaged within the cabinetry. It is the opposite of the total architectural freedom of Fazenda Boa Vistai: here the unity of the complex is a design decision, not an effect of the layout.

The villas’ gardens are by Maria João d’Orey, and the masterplan was developed following sustainability standards — in-house management of water supply and sewage, large planting areas for enriching the local flora, and priority, in internal circulation, given to bicycles and electric carts.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: it is not a tower. Country resort condominium with three declared products — estates, plots and villas —, all with one residence per plot.
• Sizes: estates from 10,000 m² · plots from 2,000 m², with views of the golf course, the landscapes and the lakes · villas on plots of up to 1,000 m², with gardens by Maria João d’Orey. The Santa Helena villa has 608 m² built and five suites.
• Parking: according to each residence’s design.
• Structural highlights: an area of 6 million m², of which 1.5 million is native forest · an uninterrupted 8.5 km running circuit · a 14.2 km cycle path · an 11.9 km bridle path · 13.13 km of marked trails through the native forest · lakes integrated into the landscape · in-house management of water supply and sewage · helipad with VIP lounge.
• Registry and parameters: development under construction in the municipality of Bragança Paulistai, with access via the Estrada Municipal BGP-260, in the Barreiro district, and a link to São Paulo via the Rodovia dos Bandeirantesi. Registry authority of Bragança Paulista.

Leisure and facilities

• Santa Helena Golf Club — 18-hole course by Jack Nicklausi
• Santa Helena Country Club — spa with gym, tennis, beach tennis and multi-sport courts, football pitch, bar and restaurant
• Santa Helena Market — town centre signed by Sig Bergamini and Murilo Lomasi, with the Santa Helena Hotel, services and convenience
• Equestrian centre
• Fazendinha, with animal interaction
• Kids Club, with a play room, playgrounds and pools
• Medical centre, with on-duty technicians and assistants
• Helipad with VIP lounge
• Organic vegetable garden
• Running circuit, cycle path, bridle path and trails through the native forest

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Bragança Paulista: the address

Bragança Paulistai is not a neighbourhood: it is a town in the interior of São Paulo state on the Fernão Dias and Dom Pedro I highway axis, and the hilly region between it and Itatiba has become, over the last three decades, the state’s highest-end country-house belt. What sustains this is a simple equation: one of the country’s best climates, with well-defined seasons, terrain that guarantees views and privacy, and a road network that puts the capital about an hour away — the development’s material speaks of an hour via the Rodovia dos Bandeirantesi; Bloomberg Línea, an hour and a half. It was there that Quinta da Baronezai set the standard in 1999, and it is there that JHSFi is now planting its second farm, repeating outside the capital the move that made the group the ultra-luxury benchmark within it.