@deonmikail 25 October 2021 more from that month

Ouro Preto The wealth of Brazil's state of Minas Gerais in its glory days of the colonial period is easy to imagine from the interiors of the churches in its old capital, Ouro Preto. Entire walls are washed in gold that flowed - along with diamonds - from the mines surrounding the city in the 17th and 18th centuries.