São Miguel das Missões

São Miguel das Missões (Portuguese for St. Michael of the Missions) is a Unesco World Heritage site located in the small town of São Miguel das Missões in the northwestern region of Rio Grande do Sul, a state in southern Brazil. It is also known as São Miguel Arcanjo and by its Spanish language name San Miguel. It was one of the many Jesuit Reductions in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. Jesuit missionaries founded the mission in the 18th century in part to catechise the Guaraní indian population and to protect the natives from the Portuguese slave traders known as the Bandeirantes.

The mission was built between 1735 to around 1745. The Treaty of Madrid in 1750 handed sovereignty over the area from Spain to Portugal and the Jesuits were ordered to leave. Their refusal to comply led to the mission's termination in a battle with a Portuguese-Spanish army which had been sent to enforce the newly agreed upon frontier between the two colonial powers. The cathedral in nearby Santo Ângelo city is modeled after the São Miguel das Missões reduction.

The ruins of São Miguel das Missões are protected by UNESCO since 1983.

See also

  • The Mission, a 1986 film starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons, about the Jesuit Missions of the Guaraní. The set recreates what São Miguel das Missões may have looked like in the 18th century.
  • Jesuit Reductions
  • San Ignacio Miní
  • Guarani War

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Jorge Todeschini
20 April 2014
Um legado de fé e trabalho aflora em todos os cantos. Faltam guias e sinalização. O espetáculo de Som & Luz à noite (paga-se nova entrada) narra a História em detalhes. (Leve almofada e agasalho.)
Rafael Camargo
20 September 2014
Um lugar muito especial. Aprecie sem pressa. Pare diante das ruinas e comece a imaginar o cotidiano de 300 anos atrás, com os jesuítas e os índios guaranis trabalhando para construir e manter a vila.
Francieli Jantsch
29 January 2016
Local lindo e com uma energia incrível!!! No verão leve chapéu e protetor solar. Na próxima visita quero assistir ao show diário de som e luz!
Arlindo Peransoni
14 June 2015
Seria legal se tivesse um guia, pois nas ruínas falta uma sinalização com a história do lugar. Claro que depois ela é contada no show de luzes, mas o guia mesmo assim faz falta. Um belo lugar!
Jane Ricci Noronha
11 September 2019
Ruínas e história. Quem leu Érico Verissimo, sabe q se trata da primeira experiência socialista" do Brasil. Indígenas e jesuítas trabalhando e decidindo juntos, em comitês. Muito legal!
Ariádine Morgan Marques
Como é lindo e cheio de histórias. A visita só faz sentido com um guia, se não vc terá apenas um lugar maravilhoso para fotos. Fomos com a guia que o hotel tenonde nos proporcionou.
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