Cumbuco

The old town

Called the “Centro”, the old town is full of all kinds of handicraft stores with streets specialized in hammocks, as well as other streets in shoes, arts and crafts, or even hearses!

Shopping

The Centro, the handicraft market every night on the beach of Beira Mar the central market, a covered market filled with handcrafted products the Iguatemi mall where the locals like to go.

Museums

Cultural Center of Dragao do Mar: some interesting exhibitions, cinema, planetarium, etc.

Museum of Popular Art and Culture in the tourist center: works of artists of the region of classical inspiration (art, history, religion)

Céara Museum: former prison where you can discover its history, the Indians, the conquest, ethnology and anthropology.

Museum of Fortaleza: the city and its evolution through images, important collection of photos, souvenirs and memorial objects.

Mineralogical museum, second museum of the Tourism Center Museum of Maracabu (African dance) in the theater San José

Main monuments

The colonial heritage of the beginning of the 20th century can be found mainly in the “centro”, where more than 50 characteristic Portuguese houses from the 19th century have been restored. To see also, the church of Our Lady of the Rosary of the XVIIIth, Passeo Publico, the oldest site of the city with magnificent hundred-year-old trees, like an immense baobab tree, which côtoient the statues; the very pretty Plaça do Feirrera in the center of the pedestrian streets, the palace of Luz of the XVIIIth which sheltered the provincial Government, the palace of Aboliçao where the mausoleum of the president Castelo Branco is, the the theater José de Alencar around 1910 in a metal architecture Art nouveau made in Scotland! with art gallery and library, the railway station l’estacao Joao Felipe which dates from 1880 and restored in its period style, the Bronze lions imported from France in the Lions Square, the Fortaleza Nossa Senhora da Assunçao, military monument of Fortaleza built in 1649 by the Dutch, still used as barracks.

Beaches

After your walk in the center of Fortaleza, you can go to the large white sand beach of Praia do Futuro, 8 km long, to have lunch under an umbrella, drink an iced caipirinha on a deckchair at Crocobeach and swim in a sea at 28 degrees. There are more than 50 bars and restaurants, very popular beach on Thursdays and weekends.