Ouro Preto, Brazil

Church of Our Lady of the Conception

Church of Our Lady of the Conception, Ouro Preto

An early-Baroque parish church in the Antonio Dias district, built across the early 18th century to designs by Manuel Francisco Lisboa. Heavy, gilded and solemn, it holds the tomb of his son Aleijadinho, the greatest sculptor of colonial Brazil.

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Location

Coordinates: -20.38472, -43.49778

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