Igreja de São Pedro Gonçalves

Brazil


Down in what's called the Cidade Baixa, the adjacent squares Praça Antenor Navarro and Largo de São Pedro Gonçalves are both lined with pastel-colored buildings and dominated by the large 19th-century Igreja de São Pedro Gonçalves.


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