Tourism - Home Fernão Dias

Home Fernão Dias 

Home, for many years, was used as a fulcrum by Bandeirante Fernão Dias and after restoration became a cultural center that still retains the typical construction of the eighteenth century, linked the roots of Antique Sink Arraial do.

Inside, visitors can learn through panels on the archaeological and natural riches of the region. Exposure of the House reveals the prehistory of the region, humans who lived in caves and animals, many of them now extinct, whose fossils were found by scientist Peter W. Lund in the nineteenth century.

The timeline goes through the colonial period, with the pioneers in search of gold, and sewing with tourist attractions and biodiversity found in the park and in the Karst region. Through totems and panels of the exhibition, the visitor can travel through time and space, without going anywhere.

House Fernão Dias, the visitor can choose a lighter track, and walk 1.5 km to the Pond Sink, one of the icons of the park, or if you have more breath, walk the trail that skirts the lake with time to watching birds, many migratory species reach the Administrative Center, meet a mill cornmeal over a hundred years and return to the starting point, but this time through the woods, a total distance of 8 kilometers.

Currently the "house of Jonathan Day" serves as the headquarters of the Sinkhole State Park and there is also leaving groups of visitors to the archaeological trails.