Let´s explore the most charming of the historical cities of Minas Gerais!! 

Tiradentes´s multi-coloured Portuguese cottages  and miniature baroque churches  cluster around the cobbles on a series   of steep, low hills around  the Santo Antonio River. There´s a crafts shop, arty little café or gourmet restaurant on every other corner. Pretty horse-down carriages gather in the town´s main plaza and the Maria Fumaça steam railway puffs its way towards São Joao del Rei at weekends. The tourists came here in earnest afther the national TV station TV Globo staged a popular mini-series here in the 1980s. The town takes its name from the former dentist who was one of the leaders of The Inconfidencia revolt. The city has some fine colonial buildings: The Matriz de Santo Antonio built between 1710 and 1752 , has a lavich gilt interior and a carved facade which is in part attributed to Aleijadinho; The Museum Padre Toledo was once the home of another of the leaders of the Inconfidencia movement and is now a museum, and on the edge of town is a magnificent 18th-century baroque drinking fountain, the Chafariz de San José.