The capital of the Ceará owns one of most important and equipped networks of hotels and restaurants of the Northeast well. It has in the raft a species of symbol and in lobster one of his more typical plates.
It is a city of warm climate and warm reception to the visitors, attracted mainly by the beauty of his beaches. 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, formed by an aquatic complex with toboganes of water and modern apparatuses of aquatic leisure.
Within the region it is possible to emphasize, among others many, tourist places like Broken Canoe Jericoacoara and the Delta of the Parnaíba. Strength has been sung in prosa and verse like “the blond newlywed of the sun”.
The 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.
They also emphasize in the capital 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.
In Strength, he is worth the pain, in addition, knowing the statue Iracema, tribute to the Indian who is personage and title of one of novels of Jose de Alencar, important cearense novelist of indianista Literature In addition, is the colony of fishermen of Mucuripe, with his rafts, and the beach of Future, filled with the premises where it is possible to be danced covered, one of the traditional rates of the northeastern region.
Sites of interest: The 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 and, in addition, the Central Market. In this one, 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 rendeiras”.
The demographic explosion of years 1979-1984, caused by an abundant immigration from the rear area - overwhelmed by the drought towards his “favelas” (populations of huts) has turned, it into the biggest city of the north of Brazil.