BRAZIL'S AMAZING GOLD MINING CITY OURO PRETO (MINAS GERAIS)
what's up everyone so today we're in a very famous historical city here in minas gerais called Ouro Preto probably the most famous historical city within this state and also one of the most famous historical cities in brazil too so this place is a portuguese colonial gold mining town from the 18th century so this was the focal point of the gold rush in brazil during the 18th century and this is the view from the place that we stay in so we have this really nice garden area as you can see we're in the colonial style buildings portuguese buildings here and we have this light room that's almost like a balcony here so we were able to have breakfast here got a hammock to chill out in as well with the awesome view and this place was 55 a night so we're staying in this bedroom here and this is where carol's brother and mother are sleeping all good getting ready yeah and this is the living room and this place has three bedrooms as well just like um the last place that we stayed we just use it as storage so you could have like six people in this place and then once again just a pretty big kitchen everywhere that we've stayed so far has had big open kitchens another dining table there so we're going to be getting around by a car today not walking because this place is super huge you can probably already see all these hills there we don't really want to be walking up and down all day so yeah the car's the best option so we found our parking spot pretty hard to find parking here because it's a sunday as well so next to all the main locations yeah there's no parking at all anymore so so if you watched our previous videos here you'll know that we went to a little place called chiradenchis which was also a historical portuguese place but yeah this place is much much bigger so the buildings are a lot bigger there's lots of buildings that are like two stories here even this one here so yeah much bigger place overall the size of the door is like huge yeah that's for an elephant yeah elephants used to live here wow look at this cool historic fountain it's huge as well yeah check this out too because the buildings are on a hillside you get these doorways here that you have a huge gap from the street but to remain in the line it's kind of funny a lot of the buildings are like that around here yeah we're at a really beautiful part here on this old old bridge so down here there's a walkway and i think there's also a waterfall i can hear it so we might try and walk down there literally every single building here looks amazing though so we passed here at night yesterday and check this out for a cool restaurant so there's a big queue for this place at night but right now it's pretty empty look at that building though really cool yeah it'd be an awesome place to have a meal carol i'm in love with this place already yeah it's very beautiful and as you said it's bigger than tita so yeah it's like different from there yeah it has like a big big city feel to it yeah yeah like bigger buildings and and yeah we should try and walk down here it looks awesome like a little stream going down i don't know how you got there though so yeah carol so this is why we brought the car yeah there are so many streets like this they're very very steep yeah super steep so all over it's just constantly up and down like san francisco dumplings so that nice little park that we could see from the bridge is called this contos yeah get all my portuguese corrector especially that word author i never say that yeah it's not an american homework to sing for people yeah so this place costs 20 hey ice per person to enter and it's actually the second oldest botanical garden in brazil it was built in 1798 got the chickens and hens over here yeah so i guess before they built the portuguese city it might have looked a bit like this everywhere so yeah it wouldn't be brazil if you didn't have a football pitch yeah that's so random even in a botanical garden they have a football pitch so they have these signs here um yeah giving you information about the different things so this one is about the bridge that we crossed earlier pontiudus and it says that this was constructed in 1744 that bridge right there pretty cool isn't it carol how there's like just some jungle yeah in the middle of the city yeah in the middle of the city look at this it's like completely wild but right next to it yeah there's all the buildings just right here but i can't tell at all over here yeah it's nice that they kept it like this check these guys out so here in the garden there's one of the old gold mines looks like you can go inside right oh i'm not sure if i want to go no through dark all right see you later guys trying to find some gold yeah it's kind of weird that it's just open like that but it doesn't really look like it's one that you're supposed to go in we're gonna go to one though later on like a really big mine so really looking forward to that it's gonna be awesome so we were just coming back from the botanical garden and we came across this historic church here i'm not sure which church this is we weren't planning on visiting this one but yeah there's like millions of churches all around here and we also have a viewpoint here should be able to get some good views oh wow yeah check it out yes i think the botanical garden started over there where you can see the top of that church and we just walked all the way through up this hill even got a church back there on the hillside you can just see so many churches i don't think i've ever seen so many there are a lot so we we choose two to visit but they're i think more than five or more than ten maybe yeah i think there's more than ten i could probably see ten right here because there's this one one two one down there three four five i'm guessing this used to be one i don't know six yeah just here right now can already see loads so here we have a astronomic observatory and it also says the school of venus so i think all this building is a historic school of meanest and at the end it almost looks like a chapel i guess uh back in the day religion and the schools were mixed together right like religious schools so this is the most famous square here in oropuretu it's called prasa denches which is the famous national hero the brazilian revolutionary yeah he was actually uh murdered because of his ideas i executed yeah i executed and they the portuguese or the government put his head here for show for other people right here yeah in this square and there's actually a statue statue of him yeah so that's the statue of denches up there so even though their plan didn't work right to overthrow the royal family they're still a hero though it was good to have different movements if there were other movements of liberation in other parts of brazil and this one didn't work but uh it was a good help for like the the revolutionary idea in brazil yeah so that's why i see his name everywhere and just as usual absolutely beautiful buildings all the way around that's a museum too but once again it's close because of covid but around here you have like souvenir shops and pretty much all these buildings here are restaurants and bars so yeah really nice place to eat around here so this is going to be the first church that we're entering people consider it to be the most beautiful one in europe and it's called a grazie g san francisco giases so this was built in 1766 an architect called alejano is really famous so he was the architect and a sculpture but apparently it was only finished at the end of the 19th century so yeah over 100 years to finish it completely yeah so it's quite small inside the ceiling is really cool though look at the impressive artwork there over 100 years to make all this so it's strange to think that the people that started the project of building this thing never saw it when it was finished never saw the final design so at the back of the church we have kind of like a little museum with paintings and sculptures so these are all from that time this is from 1758 oil on wood this one's even under 17 32. looks like it's all depicting sick people with doctors maybe so there's quite a few different viewpoints that you can go to in the city we chose one called miranchi das larges so it's pretty crazy driving up here but yeah you're getting an amazing view of the entire city almost so now you can really see how big it is i think the main historic part is all this area here but there is a more modern area on the on that hillside over there and back there so from what i read in the 1700s during the gold boom there were 80 000 people living here which is yeah loads for that time and it was the most populated city in latin america at the time and i think right now the current population is around that much 80 000 people but obviously the economy right now is mainly tourism no longer gold so so we're about to head out of here now loads of souvenir stalls here with like um souvenirs made out of rocks different ornaments and sculptures and that's very popular around here and we're going to be heading to a gold mine now gotta get in the car to go there we ended up having a meal on the main square and it was 28 hey eyes all you could eat buffet self-service so you could get loads of different plates and also desert alpha 28 so the mine that we've come to is called mina da passaging and it was 120 hey eyes per person and i think that includes a guide and apparently it's the largest open to visit gold mine in the world check it out so here we have some of the old school equipment one of the cats i don't even know what this is maybe to sit multiple people send them down the mine i guess this is where you put the the gold that they find it's written cornwall cornwall from england i don't know i wonder if that's from england from cornwall so check out how cool this is we're gonna go down in a cart so we don't walk down yeah we're gonna get one of those cool old-school carts all the way down there yeah this is a real tight fit oh here we go roller coaster it's cool cool there so the area that we're in now is a 120 meters below the ground you can feel the cold temperature in here so there's one main walkway but on the side sometimes you see the there's other holes as well that you can walk in well it's restricted but yeah that's where they did the mining you've got another one pitch here though um oh yeah so the guy told us that 35 tons of gold were extracted from this mine and from what i read online 800 tons were extracted overall i'm not sure if that was in brazil or miniature ice and sent to portugal the end of the roller coaster ride so that was an interesting tour probably took about 45 minutes overall and yeah the guy was explaining a lot of things so he told us the mines that were um excavated by slaves by hand right were around 50 meters deep at max and this one is 130 because the british actually came here and then they used equipment so they could go that deep so from what he said when the portuguese royal family escaped to brazil because napoleon was after them the british protected them the british navy and then since they had that debt to the british they handed over this mine for around 90 years to the british to extract the gold and that's why they brought their machinery and he also explained about where the gold was so i don't remember the exact names of the kind of rock but he showed us there like a white rock and a black rock noisy birds and that's usually where the gold is found between them and there is still gold in the mine it's just not enough to be worth um extracting right now the cost of trying to extract it would be more than the actual gold that's left there so that's why they're not doing it anymore and now it's just open for tourism and the part where you could see the water they do a scuba dive in there now not to find anything just for yeah i guess people that are professional scuba divers can pay and then you go down into the gold mine into the cave so that'd be pretty cool as well so this is the last video from the state of minnesota we've all loved all the places that we visited here and there's certainly more things to see the state is so big we just saw it a little bit but yeah i really like what we saw but it's not the end of the road trip we do have one more video coming up i think right now we're about to drive back into the state of rio and we're going to stop at a place there called petropolis which is also like a historic city but in rio very different to the ones around here so that will be the next video if you like this video just drop a like as usual to support us subscribe like see more videos like this follow us on instagram and we'll see in the next you
2021-10-09 04:46
