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São Miguel das Missões is a
Explore the Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: Ruins of São Miguel das Missões in the UNESCO collection on Google Arts and Culture
Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis Spanish missions in Brazil Colonial Brazil 1632 establishments in the Viceroyalty of Peru 1767 disestablishments in the Viceroyalty of Peru Governorate of the Río de la Plata {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
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in Rio Grande do Sul
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state, southern Brazil
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. Important 17th century Spanish Jesuit
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mission ruins are located in the municipality. San Miguel Mission is within Santo Ângelo Microregion, and the Riograndense Northwest Mesoregion. The city covers and had a population of 7,683 residents.
Mission São Miguel das Missões
The town grew around the Spanish colonialJesuit Reduction
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, Mission San Miguel Arcángel, founded in 1632. After becoming part of Brazil it was renamed Mission São Miguel das Missões.
In 1984 Mission São Miguel das Missões was one of four sites of Jesuit reductions in Argentina and one in Brazil
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to be declared by UNESCO
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the World Heritage Site
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Museum
TheMission Museum
The Mission Museum (Portuguese: Museu das Missões) is a historical museum in São Miguel das Missões, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is located on the site of the ruins of São Miguel das Missões, a jesuit reduction including the Church of Sã ...
(''Museu das Missões'') is a history museum located in São Miguel Mission.
The creation of the museum was one of the first initiatives of the Office of Historical and Artistic Heritage, today IPHAN. In 1937 the SPHAN was created and in the same year, the architect Lucio Costa was sent to Rio Grande do Sul to analyze the remains of the ruins of the Seven Peoples of the Missions, and propose measures. One of his proposals was to create a museum to house the statues missionaries dispersed throughout the region. In 1938, the remnants of the town of San Miguel and the museum building were listed as National Heritage, and in 1940, the Museum of the Missions was officially established.
Between 1938 and 1940, the architect Lucas Mayerhofer directed the stabilization works in the mission Church of San Miguel, the construction of the museum building, and was in charge of gathering the works of statuary.
Currently listed in the museum's collection are religious images from the time of installation of the Jesuit missions in the region.
See also
* *Governorate of Paraguay
The Governorate of Paraguay ( es, Gobernación del Paraguay), originally called the Governorate of Guayrá, was a governorate of the Spanish Empire and part of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Its seat was the city of Asunción; its territory roughly e ...
* Misiones Orientales
The Misiones Orientales (, ) or Sete Povos das Missões/Siete Pueblos de las Misiones (, ) is a historic region in South America, in present-day Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost State of Brazil.
Together with present-day Misiones Province ...
*Governorate of the Río de la Plata
The Governorate of the Río de la Plata (1549−1776) ( es, Gobernación del Río de la Plata, links=no, ) was one of the governorates of the Spanish Empire. It was created in 1549 by Spain in the area around the Río de la Plata.
It was at firs ...
*Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata ( es, Virreinato del Río de la Plata or es, Virreinato de las Provincias del Río de la Plata) meaning "River of the Silver", also called "Viceroyalty of the River Plate" in some scholarly writings, in ...
References
External links
*Explore the Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: Ruins of São Miguel das Missões in the UNESCO collection on Google Arts and Culture
Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis Spanish missions in Brazil Colonial Brazil 1632 establishments in the Viceroyalty of Peru 1767 disestablishments in the Viceroyalty of Peru Governorate of the Río de la Plata {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub