Occupying a narrow strip and it releases between the sea and the mountain, Espírito Santo has a great tourist potential, with beaches for all the tastes, old constructions and historical marks of the colonization. Its capital, Vitória, founded on 1551, are an island and the second older city of the state. First is Vila Velha, founded on 1534 by the Basque Portuguese Fernandes. The hostility of the Indians goitacases forced Colonizing the mudar of Ilha Velha (the island of opposite). In the dispute with the Indians by the Earth possession, the Portuguese prevailed who gave to the new town the name of Vitória. The two cities prospered and at the moment they live in harmony, separated by a bridge of 4.8 km Trimmed by coves, Vitória has five beaches and is the greater island of an archipelago of 33 small barren islands. The earth pieces are united by bridges.

• Interesting visit of the city with colonial constructions, ports, beaches, streets with trees and a pedestrian street to border sea next to the beach of Camburi characterize the city. In the places of Desejo and the Namorados are more the bars animated and the restaurants of more prestige of Vitória, where the more famous typical plate can be eaten, moqueca capixaba, served in mud pot
• Anchieta palace, a construction initiated with the foundation of the city and that was school, church and today is soothes of the government.
• Church of São Gonçalo, of 1766, in jesuítico colonial style.
• The Metropolitan Cathedral, constructed in century XX, gothic style.
• The Chapel of Santa Luzia, first construction of the city, built upon a rock.
• The Church do Rosary, where to enter, is precise to raise 95 steps.
• Theater Carlos Gomes, constructed in 1927, smaller retort of the Scala of Milan.
• Nose gives Great Fonte, where an excellent panoramic view of Vitória and Vila Velha can be admired.
• Market Capixaba de Artesanato, where it is possible to be bought pieces of overwhelm, toots, shells and cord, besides the typical mud pots.
• Goiabeiras, district to the north of Vitória, where you make they are them of the typical pots of ceramics.

• The extraordinary beaches that are leaving Vitória in South direction (only the capital are an island, the rest of the state is in the continent), are 113 beach km, between which they emphasize Setiba, Três Praias, Itaoca, Marataízes and Guarapari, the most famous spa of Espírito Santo. The monazite sand of these beaches, considered medicinal, is very appreciated by the swimmers. In Guarapari, the beach of Castanheiras offers a wonderful spectacle, at the end of the summer: the flight of flocks of thousands of wanderers of sea who take shelter to rest in the trees.
• Anchieta, to 80 km of Vitória, wonderful to get late marked by the flight of the herons that return to rest in the existing trees throughout I milk of the Beneventes river.
• Encounter of waters of river Twelve with the sea, to the north of Vitória, that crosses the state to end at the Atlantic Ocean.
• Of Vitória to Itaúnas, last city of the state, is 253 km. of coast with beaches hidden in small coves or extensive sand strips. In the route is the small village of fishermen of Nova Almeida, to 30 km of the capital, where the visit to the church of the Magical Kings is recommended, a jesuítica construction of century XVI declared National Historical Patrimony.
• Regência, where is the Biological Reserve of Comboios, recognized world-wide by the preservation of marine turtles.
• São Mateus, population with the visit to the ruins of the church of the Jesuits.
• To 12 km of São Mateus it is the Island of Guriri.
• Itaúnas, where the nature is the protagonist, with its sand dunes, some of 30 M.s of height. The Park Estadual de Itaúnas keeps a rich ecosystem, with salt marshes, sand banks, rivers, Lagos, beaches and abundant vegetation. There is also one of the main bases of the project Tamar, a training center of marine turtles, where, of September to March, the visitor can observe the egg-laying of the turtles.
• The mountain region of Espírito Santo offers several routes of rural character for the eco-tourism. Are zones inhabited by European descendants of most, as it is possible to be appreciated in his celebrations and celebrations like: the Festival of German immigration (Sommerfest), the Celebration of Fresa de Blue Pedra, the Celebration of the Colonist, in Santa Maria de Jetibá, etc.
• In the mountain region also is Santa Teresa, to 50 km of Vitória, land of the colibríes and of the August naturalist Ruschi, who founded the Museum there I notch Leitão. In the middle of the city, they live between the vegetation more than 20 species of colibríes, besides thousand of animal and plants.