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| The Casa dos Contos and the church of Sao Francisco de Paula in Ouro Preto, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Casa dos Contos was the Fazenda Real, the place where the Crown extracted its fifth of the gold and assembled armed convoys to escort it down to Rio de Janeiro for shipment to Portugal. Ouro Preto, rich in colonial architecture, was the capital of the gold-producing area during the gold-r |
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