Fortaleza is located on Brasil`s northeast coast, and is now one of the countries main tourist destinations. It is a welcoming city, which has entertainment catering for all tastes. The city and surrounding coastline also offers beautiful beaches with yearlong sun, intense nightlife, good shopping and handcraft centres, historical and cultural points of interest, and regional cookery with typical food based on fish and sea fruit. If you come in July, you can also enjoy the "Fortal" (carnival out of time), an event which charms and attracts people from all over the world.

Tourist sites
To trace part of the history of our land, you can visit these popular tourist sites, which show the Fortaleza of old:

Metropolitana Catedral
Dragão do Mar Center of Art and Culture
José de Alencar Theater
Estoril
Mirante( Santa Terezinha hill)
Fort Nossa Senhora da Assunção
Ceará Museum
Castelo Branco Mausoleum
Metal Bridge

Fortaleza Beaches
Enjoy the pleasant climate of Fortaleza and have fun on its beaches. You will find that come day or night, there are always things to do.

Iracema beach
Futuro beach
Meireles beach
Mucuripe beach

Shopping
Fortaleza offers visitors many opportunities to purchase local handmade crafts, which serve as ideal gifts or souvenirs to remember our land of sun.

Special Tours
If you have the time, it is worth traveling inland to see the mountains. Also, don´t forget to see and be with the Ceará beauties. Visiting the nearby Beach Park is well worth it, as it`s the biggest water park in South America, and is located beside the idyllic Porto das Dunas beach.

Lagoinha	Canoa Quebrada
Morro Branco	Jericoacoara