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Congonhas was not born in manger, was born in gold cradle. This small piece of Mines portraies, in each esquina, the apogee of the baroque miner. Here that the Aleijadinho master constructed to part of the joint architectural and escultural of the Sanctuary most famous of Brazil, being it was baptized by the UNESCO of World-wide Monument and Historic site of the Humanity .

Around of this artistic grandiosidade, the old mountains of Mines rest, so pacatas how much the likeable inhabitants of this cidadezinha where the aroma of quitutes prepared in oven to the firewood hangs and I smell it of the wet land, that invades the squares and streets with the perfume of the bushes that border the city.

To arrive in Congonhas is if to get passionate immediately for the history of this country. It is printed in museums, churches, monuments and even in the vincos of the face and the expression of this people, whom she knows to value the wealth that deferred payment for here.

To start, she visits the Basilica of Mr. Bom Jesus de Matosinhos (31 731-1591), in high of the High hill the Maranhão. It, who started to be constructed in 1757, is Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity since 1985. The imponência of the Basilica arrives to scare: are towers recoils, staircase and relicários ornados for Aleijadinho, style rococó in the majestical interior that more congregates the workmanship of the consecrated artists of the time and many other sumptuous details. It was inspired in the Church Ours Mr. Da Cruz, constructed in 1708 in Portugal. Imperdível.

It also does not leave to know the old Pilgrimage , in the Tree-lined avenue City of Matosinhos, constructed in century XVIII. It was demolida in 1968, but in 1994 she was reconstructed, using to advantage the towers of the entrance that had remained unbroken. Today, it shelters a great cultural space with the Museum of the Memory , Sacro Museum and the Museum of Mineralogy . She takes a walk for the pilgrimage and she discovers irresistible little stores of souvenires to buy sculptures in rock-soap, amused workshops of art, snack bars for one supplied fast one and other surprises that you go to adore.

Other irresistible places of Congonhas are historical constructions, as the Church of Ours Lady of the Rosary and the Matrix of Ours Lady of the Conceição , both with valuable workmanships of Aleijadinho. The matrix, constructed in 1749, shows the typical façade of the mining churches of century XVIII. The diverse phases of the baroque one are explicit in the some altars, being that the chapel - mor, were golden for the father of Aleijadinho, the Manoel sculptor Francisco Lisbon. Already the Church of Ours Lady of the Rosary, in the Square of Basilica, was constructed by slaves in the end of century XVII. It is the church oldest of the city, a rare jewel of the history of this country.

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