Encarapitada in the high one of the mountain range of the Espinhaço, 1250m. of altitude, the historical city of Diamantina impresses the traveller for the spectacular nature of its pontiagudas rocks, for the colonial casario magnificamente conserved, for the intense luminosity, especially in the first hours of the morning or to the end of the afternoon, when the light of the souls if abates on the set sculptured for God and the men.
Singular historical city, captive Diamantina also for the contagiante joy of its people, received people of easy, with exuberant artistic pendores as they had been, in the past its rich lodes of gold and diamonds. Since then known as the new Atenas , the city is a fishery of musicians, plastic artists, poet and actors, who form themselves there to pots, above of racial or economic differences, talentos pure as the rich egg yolks that as much produced.
"the old cities, that if had constituted in seeds of mining civilization, had been during two centuries, for the isolation of the transport lack, the nucleus of the old culture of our State, improving, each one, a type of artistic manifestation, that celebrities had become them (...) a serenata in Diamantina are more beautiful than a Night of Trovadores, in Naples. The city all sings, easied, diluting in the beauty of the sounds the common angústias of the life ".
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