City tour in Ouro Preto

Tour/Activity , Brazil

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Half-day city tour of Ouro Preto, including a visit to the Church of São Francisco de Assis with painted wood and soapstone carvings. This is the most important design by the Brazilian church architect and sculptor Aleijadinho. You will also visit the church of Nossa Senhora do Pilar, which is richly decorated with gold.

The Oratory Museum was inaugurated in 1998 in the town of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, in an 18th-century building belonging to the Venerable Ordem Terceira do Carmo, which has been completely restored and adapted to house the museum.

It has a magnificent collection of 162 oratorios and 300 pictures from the 17th to 20th centuries. At the end of the tour, visit the Casa da Ópera, the oldest theater in Latin America (1770).

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