Where to go/What to see

Church São Francisco de Assis

Santuary Bom Jesus do Matosinho

 Inconfidencia Museum

Church Nossa Senhora do Pilar

There are lots of churches all over the cities, but the most important and beautiful ones are: Church São Francisco de Assis, Church Nossa Senhora do Pilar and Church Matriz de Santo Antonio. It’s very important to visit the city of Congonhas to see the Santuario de Bom Jesus do Matosinho, there is a beautiful church there, with twelve statues made by Aleijadinho, they are called the twelve apostles and it is really amazingto see  the perfection of the details in all the twelve statues. In this Sanctuary there are 6 chapels that show us the steps of Jesus on Earth. In Ouro Preto it is important to go to the Museu da Inconfidencia that shows the history of the state of Minas Gerais, these museus are located in the beautiful square in Tiradentes. We went to two mines called Mina da Passagem and Mina do Chico Rei, they are really amazing mines, it’s really interesting to see them.We went to  Casa dos Contos, a huge house that belonged to João Rodrigues Macedo a very rich man that had a lot of slaves. In that house we saw a place where the slaves lived. There we saw two amazing people: Celia and Tião Paineira.