Brumadinho

From Belo Horizonte a Saritur bus for Brumadinho departs daily at 08:15 for R$40-46 (Dec 2021).

• 🌍 Inhotim, ☏ +55 31 3227-0001. Tu-F 09:30-16:30, Sa Su and holidays 09:30-17:30. A botanic park and contemporary-art expo that is well-maintained. Great lagoons, grass, all sorts of palm trees and forest. There are galleries and pieces from various contemporary-artists including Cildo Meireles, Adriana Varejão, Miguel Rio Branco and Matthew Barney. There are restaurants and snack bars inside the park (you're not supposed to bring food). From Belo Horizonte the park can be reached by bus: Saritur has a bus that goes directly to the park everyday. Departure from the central rodoviaria at 09:15, comes back from the park at 16:30. Around R$25 return trip. This is a 2-hour trip. R$20 (R$10 for elders, groups and students). (updated Oct 2023)

Numerous tourist attractions, cultural and ecological tourism are

• the Serra do Rola-Moça State Park
• the Serra da Moeda (a place for extreme sports)
• the tourist circuit of Veredas do Paraopeba, which encompasses several landscapes and which are considered heritage sites listed by State Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage of Minas Gerais, which includes buildings built in the 18th century, such as the:
• Fazenda dos Martins
• the historic village of Piedade do Paraopeba
• the historic 300-year-old Nossa Senhora da Piedade Church inaugurated in 1713 with rich artistic and sacred elements
• Nossa Senhora das Dores Church in the town of Córrego do Feijão
• the district of Casa Branca , a village surrounded by mountains, housing inns and a cuisine based on traditional Minas Gerais cuisine
• the Inhotim Institute, the biggest open-air museum in Latin America, with one of the most expressive collections of contemporary art in Brazil, in the district with the same name