Casa dos Contos

Minas Gerais · Brasilien · Museum

Casa dos Contos in Ouro Preto served as the Crown's counting house and gold foundry during the Minas Gerais gold rush. The poet and independence conspirator Cláudio Manoel da Costa was imprisoned here after the crushed Inconfidência Mineira revolt of 1789 – he was found dead in his cell, and historians still argue whether it was suicide or murder ordered by the Portuguese Crown. Guards and visitors tell of footsteps crossing the creaking floors at night and a figure that seems to declaim poetry. From the basement vaults, where enslaved people were once held, come reports of moans and strange sounds. Today the grand 1780s mansion is a museum.

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Hvor ligger Casa dos Contos?

Casa dos Contos ligger i Minas Gerais, Brasilien.

Oplysningerne bygger på lokal folketro og vidneberetninger.

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