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Dom Bosco School

Dom Bosco School, School building in Ouro Preto, Brazil.

Dom Bosco School, now called Centro Dom Bosco, is a historic building on the banks of the Rodovia dos Inconfidentes (BR-356) in the Cachoeira do Campo district of Ouro Preto. Its buildings preserve construction techniques and styles from several periods, and the Maracujá River crosses the farm's land and forms a waterfall in the wide field that gave the district its name.

Built from 1779 on orders of governor Dom Antônio de Noronha, the building first housed the Regular Cavalry Regiment of Minas, regarded as the origin of the state's Military Police. In 1816 it was adapted for the Imperial Stud Farm of Cachoeira do Campo, opened on 29 July 1819. It later held the Dom Pedro II Agricultural Colony, renamed Cesário Alvim, and from 1897 to 1997 the Salesian-run Colégio Dom Bosco.

The name Cachoeira do Campo comes from the waterfall the Maracujá river forms on the farm's land, in the middle of a wide field. The building is now known as Centro Dom Bosco and since 2012 has housed workers from the region.

The building stands beside the Rodovia dos Inconfidentes (BR-356) in the district of Cachoeira do Campo, on the grounds of the Centro Dom Bosco farm, where the Maracujá river forms a waterfall. It is not open as a school; since 2012 it has housed local workers, so the interior is not visitable and the structure is best seen from the road.

The Maracujá River crosses the farm's land and forms a waterfall in the middle of the wide field that gave the district of Cachoeira do Campo its name.

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