Youth academy players visit the Benedito Calixto Pinacoteca | OneFootball

Athletes from the under-14, under-15, and under-16 categories visited the Benedito Calixto Art Museum, one of the city’s main cultural venues, and saw the exhibition “Santos 480 – Cradle of Modern Brazil.”

The exhibition highlights Santos’s fundamental role in the formation of Brazil and its relevance to this day. It also offers a historical and cultural reading of the city as a place of passage, encounter, and transformation, emphasizing its strategic role from the colonial period to the present day.

“These actions are essential for their growth as citizens. Learning about the history of Santos through art shows the athlete that he represents more than just a team. He represents a city that was the cradle of coffee, the port, art, and Brazilian football,” said Fernanda Felix, educational advisor at Santos FC.

About the Benedicto Calixto Art Museum

Housed in a beautiful early-20th-century neoclassical mansion, the Benedicto Calixto Art Museum is an important cultural space in the city, offering musical happy hours, courses, and a variety of events for children and adults, especially on weekends.

The house, the last one along the Santos waterfront to retain the characteristics of the coffee barons’ era, served as a family residence, a nursing home, a boarding house for young women, and even a tenement before being declared of public utility in 1979 and beginning restoration seven years later.

On the ground floor are an art book library and a permanent exhibition of works by Calixto, considered one of the greatest exponents of Brazilian painting in the early 20th century. The upper floor serves as a gallery for temporary exhibitions.

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