CASA DA CÂMARA E CADEIA
A town hall for political and administrative purposes, with a lower part consisting of a prison for slaves.
Mariana may not be as well known as Ouro Preto for its Baroque Mineiro art, but it is nonetheless a city with a rich heritage. The casa da câmara (town hall) is a superb political and administrative building. The lower part was a cadeia (prison) for slaves. The famous soapstone contributes to the building's beauty. This building is part of a rich and aesthetic architectural complex, where two Baroque churches face a place of temporal power and one of the country's few pillories.
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