To extend map of Ceará

Throughout Brazilian history, Ceará has been in the vanguard at many moments. When still it was a captainship, Jose Martiniano de Alencar proclaimed republic to it, which brought about the rejection of Portuguese Corona, that the political leader punished. The cearenses twice rejected the Dutch invaders (1644 and 1654), their initial founders. Colonized by Portuguese from half-full of century XVII, the local population participated actively in the fights by the independence of Brazil, in 1822 and, two years later, it adhered to the Confederation of Ecuador, a rebellion with republican ideals. Still in the reign of Don Pedro II, the province reached a great progress with the arrival of navigation to steam, the railroad, the illumination to gas and the telephone.

 

Recommended visits

In Strength:

• In the Ponta it give Dunes, is placed the greater beach aquatic park of South America, the Beach Park. He is one of the most modern tourist centers of the Northeast.
• Beach of Iracema is a Bohemian redoubt, with tens of bars nocturnes installed in buildings that still maintain the architecture of century principles. Their majors attractions are the Estoril, where are restaurants and mini galleries of exhibitions, and Ponte two English, from where beautiful sun puttings can be contemplated.
• Beaches of Meireles, Volta de Jurema and Mucuripe, interconnected by the avenue Beira-Sea. This avenue concentrates buildings of modern architecture, besides hotels, bars and restaurants that serve to typical meals and delicious plates with seafood.
• Statue of Iracema, tribute to the Indian who is personage and title of one of novels of Jose de Alencar, important cearense novelist of indianista Literature.
• Colony of fishermen of Mucuripe, with its rafts (raft for the typical fishing of the Northeast of Brazil).
• Beach of Future, filled with the premises where it is possible to be danced covered, one of the traditional rates of the northeastern region.
• Theatro Jose de Alencar, construction of century XIX, rich architecture and with the inner facade done of metal, mixing neoclassic styles and art nouveau.
• Museums like the one of Railway History, the Automobile, Popular Art and Mineralogy.
• Central market, where it is possible to be bought from embroider clothes to liquors, brandies and chestnuts of cajú. Ceará is one of the main states in production of embroiders, done crafts to bobbins by “mulheres rendeirasâ€?.

â–º the cearense crafts has its roots in the natives of the pre-Columbian period. These used products as the clay and the straw to make instruments of daily use. With the colonization and the arrival of the Jesuits, the crafts went enriching - to the raw materials and the techniques were diversified. Adornments, dresses, relics and jewels arose, in an artisan work that remains until today.


The economic and social transformations repelled in the sector, that happened to be divided in two categories: utilitarian (embroidered, leather articles, ebanistería, carpentry and ceramics) and decorative (artistic and religious pieces). Of all the products, the embroiders and labyrinths are most famous (inheritance of the Portuguese women), have like main producing centers the municipalities of Aracati, Paracuru, Bell and Strength.

In the state of Ceará:

• Half-wild beaches like those of Jericoacoara, Nova Tatajuba and Broken Canoa. The two first are the west of the capital. Broken canoe is the east of Strength and it is possible to be acceded to her through the population of Aracati.
• National park of Ubajara, with grottos, ideal cascades and footpaths for trekking. Visit very recommended: the Grotto of Ubajara nailed in a hill of the mountain range of Ibiapaba, to 320 kilometers of Strength, the impressive grotto has stalactite formation and stalagmites, resultants of a patient work of the nature done with calcium, water and millenia; it is acceded to the grotto by cableway. The park has cascades and footpaths between the vegetation. The visits are guided by the Ibama (National Organ of Preservation of the Environment), is precise to arrange them in advance. In the Mountain range of Ibiapaba it emphasizes, also, the Nose do Céu, with 820 ms of altitude, and the Pedra de Itagurussu, spring where the cascade is born from Pirangi.
In Juazeiro, monument to Cícero father is the third greater concrete statue of the world, after the statue of the Freedom in New York and the one of the Redeeming Christ in Rio de Janeiro. Carved by the nordestino artist Arming Lacerda, in 1969, it has 27 M.s of height and was raised in the Serra do Horto, place where the monk used to make his retirements spiritual.

 

Photographic gallery

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