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> Welcome to Ouro Preto, Historical City

The Portal Top do Brasil presents to its visitors the Guide to Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brasil with quick and essential information to help you prepare your trip to this Brazilian colonial and historical city

Discovering Ouro Preto will be a very interesting experience, mainly if you are interested in history, baroque arts and architecture, as Ouro Preto is Brazil's most important colonial city.

> World Cultural Patrimony

Ouro Preto, declared World Cultural Patrimony by UNESCO (See Links for more on this) is one Brazil's most important destinations. Among other historical and colonial cities of the Minas Gerais (Tiradentes, São João del Rei, Mariana and Diamantina), Ouro Preto must be included in your itinerary when traveling to Brazil

> Baroque Treasuries

Brazil's most important baroque church (Nossa Senhora do Pilar) and the marvellous São Francisco de Assis Church, by the Aleijadinho, keep some of Brazil baroque's greatest treasuries, religious as well as profane.

It is sure that you will have no time to visit all of these treasuries. Nevertheless, the visit to at least the most important ones is already worth.

Old façades

Walking in the streets of Ouro Preto is like going to the past or visiting an open air museum.
Every façade has a story to tell us. Some are famous, as the Casa dos Contos and the house where the insurgents leader Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (Tiradentes) lived (picture on the left).

> Jewelry Shopping

Besides baroque treasuries, Ouro Preto is an important center for the trade of precious stones and jewelry. Near the Praça Tiradentes, there are several shop where you can find the famous Imperial Topaze (topázio imperial), a topaze produced in the region of Ouro Preto.

So, choose a good shop and buy some of Brazil's most beautiful precious stones at Ouro Preto to bring an original gift for someone you like

> Hotels and Restaurants

Visitors find excellent hotels, besides a vastness of options of comfortable, economic hotels and plenty of pousadas. See our suggestions (very soon)

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