State of Sergipe - Northeast of Brazil

Sergipe is placed on argillaceous ground, a fertile and rich earth in mineral reserves, like the rock salt and the potassium. With extensive deposits of petroleum and natural gas, the majors efforts of development of the State are concentrated in the operation of these products, with an ample support of the Federal Government. Nevertheless, the power of the progress still is in the plantation and the processing of the sugar cane.
Sergipe counts on a history of fights and resistance by the national sovereignty. For example of other States of the Northeast, it underwent the invasion of French privateers, interested in the operation of Pau-Brazil (tree that in colonial times was object of intense commerce by virtue of dyestuff which it was extracted of his trunk and it served to dye weaves). Military expeditions and the action of the missionaries, between centuries XVI and XVII, managed to end the illegal commerce.

Aracaju, next to the sickle of the Sergipe river, that ends at the Atlantic Ocean, was an ideal zone to construct a port by where it could leave the production sugar and create a new city. There Aracaju arose, the first planned city of Brazil, constructed with the aim of becoming the capital. Founded on 1855, the State Capital of Sergipe is inserted in the itinerary of the national and international tourism, with attractions that include coastal revitalizing, with existing catamarans (boats of special helmets for low water navigation), rivers and beaches in great amount in the city, turns that it into a tourist area of first level.

With typically colonial urbanization, Aracaju offers to the inhabitants of Sergipe and the visitors a refined architecture, like the one of the Metropolitan Cathedral, in whose construction 13 years were used. Finalized in 1875, the Cathedral has in its interior a series of neoclassic paintings, as an image of Nossa Senhora gives Conceição.
Constructed along with the city, the church of Rescuing São, first matrix of Aracaju, also keeps outlines of the architecture from the time.
Bridge do Imperador, work in charge in 1860 for the visit of the Emperor Don Pedro II. Constructed on the Sergipe river, the bridge does not take to any place, but it serves like viewpoint.
Also in center of the city it is the Historical and Geographic Museum, where they are “igaçabas�?, indigenous caves, and the skeleton of a sluggish giant, between many exhibited fossils.
The most famous beach of the S-state the one of Atalaia Velha, where there are many bars, restaurants, zones of swings, showers, spaces for you practice sport and kiosks.
The Praia do Sea bass, that, with a low vegetation, of coconut palms and dunes, difference of the others mainly by the temperature of its waters, always around 27 degrees Celsius.
To border sea it is the two Park Cajueiros, a reserve with an extension of 74,000 m2, where there is free access to tennis, football grounds and volleyball, track for bicycles, infantile park, bar, restaurant and quiscos, and where also an aquatic complex works, with three swimming pools and toboganes of water with fall of 20 ms. In order to complete, Thursdays always there are spectacles nocturnes of local groups of linings (popular dances), very frequented by the local public.

Beach of Abaís, with 20 km of extension trimmed by dunes. Besides the tropical scene, the sea, with vigorous waves, is scene of the maneuvers of the surfistas.
The Great Lagoa is an option to bathe in a lukewarm water and is transparent.
To 39 km, we found Mangue Dry, an ecological reserve to which boat or canoe can only be acceded by and that redescubrió by the success of the soap opera “Rustic Tieta do�?, cradle in the novel of the same name of Loved Jorge.

The population of the region began in the town of São Cristovão, first State Capital, declared National Monument to practically conserve intact all their architectonic work of the colonial time, including a Museum of Art Sacrum.

They are also of Sergipe some of most flavorful plates with fish and crustaceans. Among them, moqueca of pitu, caranguejada and surubim na live coal, that is the delight of the inhabitants of Sergipe and the tourists who visit the state to know their beautiful beaches. In these, in the kiosks to borders of the sea or in the restaurants, he is recommendable to request one of typical plates accompanied by “caldinho�? - of kidney beans, fish, sururu or oysters. Or also one of typical plates of the interior of the state, like paçoca, a flavorful specialty with crumbled and mixed dry meat with cassava flour.