Governors’ Palace, Colonial palace in Praça Tiradentes, Ouro Preto, Brazil.

Governors' Palace is a stone structure with baroque features located on Praça Tiradentes in this historic town, notable for its large windows and ornamental stonework. The building displays typical Portuguese colonial architecture across multiple levels with facade details that reflect the status and wealth of those who ruled here.

Built from 1741 under engineer José Fernandes Pinto Alpoim for governor Gomes Freire de Andrade, on the ruins of the old Casa de Fundição e da Moeda. The Portuguese architect Manuel Francisco Lisboa, father of Aleijadinho, directed the work for 40,000 cruzados; structural works ended around 1746, finishing touches continued in 1774, and the chapel occupying a front bastion was completed in 1781. Listed by IPHAN since 1950.

The palace's name, Palácio Novo (New Palace), distinguishes it from the older governors' residence in Vila Rica. Its chapel, finished in 1781 in one of the front bastions with a retable by Manoel Francisco de Araújo, was later demolished along with an inner garden to house the School of Mines. Two of the palace's artillery pieces were kept at the Minas Gerais Public Archive by the mid-20th century.

The site is easily reached on foot and sits in the heart of the old town on a central square with other attractions nearby. Morning visits work best when temperatures are cooler and fewer visitors are present at the location.

The palace was designed as a fortified house: Alpoim's specifications called for four bastions with round sentry boxes at the flanked angles, and walls four palms thick. A chapel occupying one of the front bastions, with a retable by Manoel Francisco de Araújo, was finished in 1781 and later demolished, along with an inner garden, to house the School of Mines.