This gneis-granit-monlith is more than 500 million years old and why it is called “pedra azul”, i.e. blue stone, is not quite clear to me. The 500m high boulder is impressive, especially as it rises vertically into the sky on one side. There are some hiking trails through the national park, on weekends they are popular, especially the natural pools.

The Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim (Contemporary Art Centre Inhotim; also: Instituto Inhotim) is an institution with a collection of contemporary art. It is located in Brumadinho in the state of Minas Gerais, a city of around 40,000 inhabitants and 60 km from the capital Belo Horizonte.

The opening took place in 2004 to house the collection of the entrepreneur Bernardo Paz. Today it exhibits works created between 1970 and the present day. The central exhibition building was designed by the Brazilian architect Rodrigo Cerviñoo Lopez. The collection consists of 450 works by Brazilian and foreign artists, with an emphasis on works by Cildo Meireles, Vik Muniz, Hélio Oiticica, Paul McCarthy and Zhang Huan. The area is 300,000 square meters.

The exhibition is embedded in a spacious garden, the design of which was inspired, among others, by Roberto Burle Marx. Two sculptures by the artist Adriana Varejão and the mahogany boat by the British artist Simon Starling are on display in the open-air grounds, surrounded by native forest.

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