Place: Diamantina, Brazil
Weather: Partly cloudy, 57/79F.
Route: From Salvador 1,124 km SSW on BR-116.
Website: UNESCO World Heritage Site
Catedral de Santo Antonio (from whc.unesco.org)
Road built by and traveled by enslaved people in the 18th century to the diamond mines (from whc.unesco.org)
Significance: Diamantina was the center of the diamond mining operations in Brazil in the 17th and 18th centuries. The town has a number of Baroque style buildings.
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