Ouro Preto's Santa Efigenia Church ON THE SECOND day of my Brazilian art collector tour we visited Ouro Preto, a Brazilian colonial town nestled in a mountainous region in the center of the state of Minas Gerais, 423 miles northeast of the city of São Paulo. The discovery of gold in the 18th century led to Ouro Preto's becoming the focus of a gold rush, as Europeans flocked there to pan for gold in the nearby streams -- and eventually this to the development of extensive mining in the area's mo...
Ouro Preto's Santa Efigenia Church ON THE SECOND day of my Brazilian art collector tour we visited Ouro Preto, a Brazilian colonial town nestled in a mountainous region in the center of the state of Minas Gerais, 423 miles northeast of the city of São Paulo. The discovery of gold in the 18th century led to Ouro Preto's becoming the focus of a gold rush, as Europeans flocked there to pan for gold in the nearby streams -- and eventually this to the development of extensive mining in the area's mo...
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