Diamantina

Distances from:

• Belo Horizonte - 297 Km (180 mi)
• Rio de Janeiro - 732 Km (450 mi)
• Brasília - 724 Km (450 mi)
• São Paulo - 881 Km (550 mi)

By bus

The bus station (rodoviária) is at Largo Dom João, 134. (38) 3531-9176. There are frequent buses from Belo Horizonte by companies São Geraldo and Pássaro Verde (websites in Portuguese only).
There is also one daily arrival from São Paulo.

• Capela Imperial do Amparo

  address: Rua do Amparo
  Construction on this chapel began in 1773 and stretched over the next 4 decades.

• Casa de Juscelino

  phone: +55 38 3531-3607
  address: Rua São Francisco 241
  This former residence of ex-president Juscelino Kubitschek houses a museum dedicated to his life.

• Casarão do FórumOne of the most important pieces of colonial architecture, this structure was built as a residence, and later used as a meeting hall for the city council.

• Diamond Museum

  phone: +55 38 3531-1382
  address: Rua Direita 14
  Holds a collection of artifacts from the area's colonial diamond-mining days.

• Igreja do Bonfim

  address: Rua do Bonfim
  Completed sometime before 1771.

• Igreja das Mercês

  address: Rua das Mercês
  Completed in 1784, this church still holds mass on the fourth Saturday of the month at 5PM.

• Igreja da Nossa Senhora do Carmo

  address: Rua do Carmo

• Igreja São Francisco

  address: Rua São Francisco
  Built by the Franciscans in the early 1770s. The interior is being restored.

• Watch the Vesperatas - open shows of traditional music bands, a large event that takes place on the colonial Quitanda street twice a month (from April to October).

• Al-Árabe

  phone: +55 38 3531-2281
  Praça Dr. Prado, 124.

• O Garimpeiro

  phone: +55 38 3532-1040
  address: Av. da Saudade, 265

• Trattoria La Dolce Vita

  phone: +55 38 3531-8485
  address: Rua Vieira Coutro, 232

• Espaço B Café

  phone: +55 38 3531-6005
  Beco da Tecla, 31.

• Pousada do Garimpo

  phone: +55 38 3532-1040
  address: Av. da Saudade, 265

• Pouso da Chica

  phone: +55 38 3531-7349
  address: Rua Macau de Cima, 115

• Tijuco

  phone: +55 38 3531-1022
  address: Rua Macau do Meio, 211

• Pouso da Chica

  phone: +55 38 3531-6190
  address: Rua Macau de Cima, 115

• Biribiri - A well preserved if tiny 19th-century industrial village, 15km from the city.
• Serro