Brazil · History · Culture · Nature gateway
Jesuit-Guarani ruins and living mission-country culture make northwestern Rio Grande do Sul essential for Brazil’s deeper history.
Why this place
São Miguel das Missões preserves the UNESCO-listed ruins of São Miguel Arcanjo, one of the most important surviving sites from the Jesuit-Guarani mission period. Museums, the evening sound-and-light interpretation and wider mission routes place the site within a cross-border cultural landscape extending toward Argentina and Paraguay.
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The museum provides context for the history of the mission settlement.
Photo: Secretaria Especial da Cultura do Ministério da Cidadania · CC BY 2.0
The surviving church fabric helps explain the scale of the former mission complex.
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