Ouro Preto
Population 74,558 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Brazil
- January: 13 h 14 of daylight
- February: 12 h 46 of daylight
- March: 12 h 14 of daylight
- April: 11 h 38 of daylight
- May: 11 h 09 of daylight
- June: 10 h 54 of daylight
- July: 11 h of daylight
- August: 11 h 25 of daylight
- September: 11 h 58 of daylight
- October: 12 h 33 of daylight
- November: 13 h 05 of daylight
- December: 13 h 21 of daylight
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide- Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo Attraction · 120 m
- Igreja de São Francisco de Assis Attraction · 200 m
- Igreja Nossa Senhora das Mercês e Misericórdia Attraction · 210 m
- Igreja de Nossa Senhora das Mercês e Perdões Attraction · 320 m
- Museu Casa Guignard Museum · 120 m
- Museu do Oratório Museum · 150 m
- Casa dos Contos Museum · 270 m
- Igreja Matriz Nossa Senhora da Pilar Attraction · 440 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Through the year
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Carnaval
February – March
Ouro Preto is increasingly popular during Carnaval, especially with college students.
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Holy Week
March – April
Easter week brings lavish celebration to the streets around Matriz da N.S. da Conceicao, with intense floral decoration (Saturday night - you can help in the making of it) and interesting processions in the street
2 events here have no dates for this year yet. We can look them up on each event's own site.
Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Ouro Preto); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.
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