Ouro Preto trip

Ouro Preto  trip

We went to Ouro Preto, a historical Brazilian city. There, we visited the “Mina da Passagem” and  “Mina do Jeje”, places which the slaves worked in bad conditions, collecting gold all day. From children to women and men, they all had little time of life after they started to work as slaves.

The city has many churches. We saw four of them. Their styles are Barroco and Rococó. Some churches were built by Alejadinho. In one of them, there  was some tombs in the floor, and a museum. The churches were decorated with gold.

The “Casa da Moeda” is a place where in the past they fused coins to avoid the illegal gold to be used.

Another place is the jail. Upstairs was a place where the people were judge. Downstairs was the jail.

At “Praça Tiradentes” there is the statue of Tiradentes, a conjured of the “Inconfidência Mineira”. This statue was built long after his death at the same place.  There is the old “Palácio dos Governadores” too. Nowadays, it is a museum and touristic site.

The “Parque do Caraça”  was a boarding school until the library took fire. After this, the school became a convent and today it is the favorite place for the biologists, because it has a singular fauna and flora.

This was the best trip we’ve ever been to.

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