This article aims to discuss the signification process of the tourist-historic city of Ouro Preto. It is developed through a social psychology research based on a phenomenological approach and a micro-historical study of perception. It was based on an extent research on articles, books and others documents about Ouro Preto city. At the end, one shows the different discourses concerning four main perception fields created during the 20th century.
phenomenology; cultural tourism; historic patrimony; Ouro Preto