Even many local people don't know places like this: a piece of an 18th Century road, known later on by references as "royal way", or "royal road", getting out of old Vila Boa of Goias, going to Ourofino, then toward Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, transporting tons of gold to be shipped to Portugal. This road was first used for troopers convoys, who were supposed to pay a 10 per cent tax for the King, in gold, of course, when crossing control stations. The only ways legally accepted were these "royal roads" - you tried any alternative and it´d be clear you wanted to escape tax collecting, and you'd loose the gold and was arrested. Nowadays places like these wait for restoration, while still lost between old farms fences and the memory of history. Its original starting point was at the Carioca district of old Goias, today at right of the paved road to Araguaia river.