Santo Antônio do Monte

Santo Antônio do Monte grew around a chapel on a hill in western Minas Gerais. In 1758 Lopo Barroso Pereira received a land grant beside the Itaubira stream, close to the chapel and land he had already occupied. Families settled on farms in the surrounding country, and the chapel became the centre of their community. It received a baptismal font in 1802.