the city of ouro preto it was the first Brazilian city to be declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural, Historic and Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 1980. Is located 100 kilometers.
The city of Congonhas located seventy miles from Belo Horizonte, Congonhas has an impressive set of baroque richness of the greatest artist in the genre in Brazil: Antonio Francisco Lisboa, better known by his nickname Aleijadinho. In the churchyard of the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos, Aleijadinho carved soapstone famous images of the twelve prophets in full size which are visited annually by thousands of tourists from Brazil and around the world.
The Serra do Cipo is located 90 kilometers northeast of Belo Horizonte , soon after the town of Lagoa Santa , in southern Serra do Espinhaço , in the watershed of the river basins of the rivers São Francisco and Doce , Minas Gerais , Brazil. It is one of the most spectacular natural regions of the world . Its geological history is complex and date of the Precambrian period , with its sandy rocks that were formed by marine deposits more than 1.7 billion years