Some 144km northwest of Goiânia, and a six-hour bus ride from Brasília, is the historic town of GOIÁS VELHO – originally known as Vila Boa, and now often just called Goiás. Strung along and up a steep valley cut by the Rio Vermelho, it is one of the most beautiful colonial towns in Brazil, […]
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