# Piedade Cemetery

Ouro Preto, Brazil

The Piedade Cemetery rests on an old hill at the northwest edge of Ouro Preto, near the Antônio Dias quarter. Documented from the early 19th century, it shifted burial from inside the churches to open ground, gathering generations of the town's dead.

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Coordinates: -20.38, -43.50556

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