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    The more cosmopolite city of the northeast offers one week full of attractions for the tourists. The capital of Ceará won the most lively Monday of the world.
The Beach of Iracema, one of the first urban nuclei of the city, shelters most of the bars and restaurants, with guaranteed movement everyday. It´s also there, "Ponte dos Ingleses" (The English´s Bridge ), the old mooring that today is used to see the sunset and the dolphins.

    The Beach of the Future is more sought during the day and it is the point of the swimmers' encounter. Besides having the whole necessary infrastructure, with great huts, the beach is a great option for the ones who want to taste fruits of the sea, done according to the cookery from Ceará. On Thursdays, the beach becomes the principal pole of animation of the night of the capital, with live music shows, forró (type of dance of the northeast of Brazil) and a lot of crab. The existence of strong winds guarantees to the Beach of the future a prominence place in the accomplishment of world competitions of nautical sports as surf and windsurf.


Centro Dragão do Mar

     A very interesting cultural attraction is "Centro Dragão de Arte e Cultura" (Sea´s Dragon Center of Art and Culture), one of the modern culture centers, art and leisure of Brazil. With 30.000m2, it offers a reserved space to the culture, regional and even international. Around "Dragão do Mar", besides tradicional bars and restaurants, there are also antique houses and storehouses recuperated. He/she/you possesses museums, movies, theater rooms, amphitheater and until a planetarium. Fortaleza has the privilege of possessing the largest and better carnival rejection of time of the country: Fortal. It is accomplished the last week of July, and ten years ago it is dragging buffoons of all the parts of Brazil and of the world. The average arrives to 2 million people during the event, that you/they travel a total of 4.200 meters for the blocks during the parade. They are 4 days of a lot of party and amusement.


BEACHS
    Of the end west to the end east of the State, they extend 573 km of coast, marked by lukewarm waters (the temperature varies between 25 and 28th) and for a constant breeze, with the humidity of the air in the strip of the 82%. One of the most interesting aspects is the coastal regularity, just broken by calm bays and for the narrow mouths of the river.
The main beaches are:

Canoa quebrada

Praia das Fontes

Morro Branco

Porto das Dunas

Cumbuco

    It is the beach more visited by the tourists from Ceará, for to be very close of Fortaleza and to possess beautiful dunes, crystalline sea, coconut trees and exuberant cashew trees, besides adventures for the ponds of Parnamirim, where it is possible to go down of ski buttock and Pond of Banana, where it is offered jet-ski service and banana boat.

    Besides cavalcade and of the raft walk, the tourist cannot stop walking of buggy (car type that walks in the sand) in the famous dunes of Cumbuco. And when questioning if it is with or without emotion, be with the first option and he/she won't be sorry.

Jericoacoara

    Considered one of the most beautiful beaches of the world by the American newspaper Washington Post, Jeri ", as all call her affectionately, it is an oasis between the dunes and ponds that more they seem the sea of the Polynesian. Among that scenery, such famous Holed Stone appears, that at that time of July, the sun is centralized in your hole.