Pop-Up Cards (World Heritage Sites in Brazil)
It’s been a really long time since I last updated my World Heritage pop-up cards.
Now that I’ve stopped limiting myself to 180 degree-type cards, I feel like I’ve finally been able to move forward. Going forward, I plan to mix 90 degree and 180 degree types in my updates.
This time, I created a 90 degree-type cards featuring a World Heritage site in Brazil. Both were chosen from buildings included in the “Historic Center of Ouro Preto.”
Ouro Preto is a city that flourished as a gold mining center in the 18th century. After gold was discovered in the late 17th century, a gold rush ensued, and by the 18th century, it had grown into a city of 100,000 people. The architecture from that era still remains today.
I’m not very knowledgeable about world history or geography, so I can’t do anything without starting by doing some research. However, while there are general descriptions of Ouro Preto, there is surprisingly little information in Japanese about the individual buildings. I relied on overseas websites, but many of them didn’t even have entries on the English Wikipedia. I finally managed to find information about each church on the Portuguese Wikipedia. However, Portuguese is a completely foreign language to me, so I could only get a rough idea using machine translation.
(As for the Japanese names, there are some building names where the Japanese translations haven’t been standardized yet, so I’m fumbling my way through, relying on machine translation. Please let me know if anything sounds unnatural.)
After all that, I finally managed to complete the cards.
The first photo shows the “Inconfidência Museum.” I hear it displays materials related to Tiradentes, a hero of Brazilian independence.
The second is the Church of Our Lady of Pilar (Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senhora do Pilar). Apparently, there are over 20 churches in Ouro Preto. I haven’t been able to research them all yet.
I’ve published the template for the Museum of the Inconfidência. Perhaps because it’s been a while since I worked on a World Heritage site and I got a little too enthusiastic, both templates turned out to be quite difficult to fold. They might take a bit of effort, but please feel free to use them if you like.
[Postscript]
(2017-09-15) I have closed the download of the template for the Museum of the Inconfidência.