• placement: superzone
  • path: destinations/pois/hero
  • containerId: gpt-ad-137237849085
  • possible size: [970, 250], [970, 90], [728, 90], [320, 50], [1, 1],
  • targeting: 
    {
  "url": "points-of-interest/minas-da-passagem/1180752",
  "destination": "Minas-Gerais",
  "title": "minas-gerais",
  "type": "Region",
  "region": "Minas-Gerais",
  "continent": "South-America",
  "country": "Brazil",
  "refresh": 30,
  "refresh_limit": 3
}

Minas da Passagem

Halfway between Ouro Preto and Mariana, this ancient gold mine was founded by the Portuguese in 1719 and definitively decommissioned in 1985. Guided tours descend in a rickety antique cable car, covering the mine’s history and local gold-extraction methods, then visiting a subterranean lake and a shrine to the many black slaves who died here dynamiting into the rock. Any Ouro Preto–Mariana bus can drop you here (R$4.45, 15 minutes from either town).

  • placement: superzone
  • path: destinations/pois/middle
  • containerId: gpt-ad-448251571415
  • possible size: [970, 250], [970, 90], [728, 90], [320, 50], [1, 1],
  • targeting: 
    {
  "url": "points-of-interest/minas-da-passagem/1180752",
  "destination": "Minas-Gerais",
  "title": "minas-gerais",
  "type": "Region",
  "region": "Minas-Gerais",
  "continent": "South-America",
  "country": "Brazil",
  "refresh": 30,
  "refresh_limit": 3
}

Must-see attractions

Explore all
  • placement: superzone
  • path: destinations/pois/superzone
  • containerId: gpt-ad-728109475009
  • possible size: [970, 250], [970, 90], [728, 90], [320, 50], [1, 1],
  • targeting: 
    {
  "url": "points-of-interest/minas-da-passagem/1180752",
  "destination": "Minas-Gerais",
  "title": "minas-gerais",
  "type": "Region",
  "region": "Minas-Gerais",
  "continent": "South-America",
  "country": "Brazil",
  "refresh": 30,
  "refresh_limit": 3
}