CONGONHAS BOM JESUS SANCTUARY

Built during the second half of the eighteenth century, the sanctuary, located in Minas Gerais, south of Belo Horizonte, consists of a church with a magnificent Rococo interior of Italian inspiration, an outdoor stairway decorated with statues of prophets and seven chapels Stations of the Cross which the polychrome sculptures by Aleijadinho are the masterpiece of baroque art original and very expressive.