Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Luiz Gonzaga Teixeira

Titel

Ouro Preto: Brazil's Monument Town

Ist Teil von

• Ambio, 1983-01, Vol.12 (3/4), p.213-215

Ort / Verlag

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

1983

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Ouro Preto, a town in Minas Gerais, Brazil, that was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980, is a living open air museum of the nation's economic, social and artistic history. Emerging during the turn of the 17th to the 18th Centuries, the town, then called Vila Rica, was a catalyst for new creative thought in all facets of the arts and humanities reflecting the spirit of the "man of the mines", since the town was also the heart of Brazil's gold rush. Preserved entirely in its original state, Ouro Preto today faces a challenge that means reconciling the need to preserve the historical site with the fact that it is at the same time a living city in the throes of active urban development.