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Goiás

Official UNESCO name: Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás

Frontier colonial town in the heart of Brazil.

CulturalInscribed 2001

The Story

Goiás grew in the 18th and 19th centuries as a mining and trading post in central Brazil. Its modest, harmonious townscape of whitewashed houses and simple churches reflects colonial life far from the coast.

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