Hi there! Welcome to Itanhaém Virtual and Litoral Sul Virtual.
Welcome to the Southern Shores - The Coast of the Atlantic Forest
of the State of São Paulo in Southeastern Brazil! Itanhaém is
the second oldest town in Brazil, right after São Vicente
(Saint Vincent), founded in the 16th century, more precisely on
April the 22nd, in 1532, by the Portuguese Navigator, Martim
Afonso de Souza. In the beginning, the city was named as Conception
of Itanhaém, since the Portuguese had consecrated the Village to
Our Lady of Conception. Then later, in the beginning of the 20th
century, the town was renamed as simply as Itanhaém. You'll find here very soon, in English,
the same site that is already in Brazilian Portuguese so you'll
have a chance to learn more about this beautiful place as well
as some chapters of the local Brazilian History.
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
click on the images
to enlarge |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Come to Itanhaém and discover on the Southern Shores a great
variety of beaches, many species of colorful birds from the
Atlantic Forest, waterfalls hidden in the deep bluish green of
high mountains of the Sea Mountain Range, beautiful rivers, an
incredible sea dotted with Islands and Islets that are home of
many species of fish, dolphins and whales, the Atlantic Forest
with its exquisite flowers called bromélias, a great variety of
animals and light blue butterflies that sparkle like diamonds
under the tropical sun. You'll be able to choose among beaches
presenting white sand or other ones with darker sands, some
small and some others as big as a beach can be. Itanhaém is the
right place where the blue sky meets the sea as though the
panorama were of an unreal watercolor. You simply can't miss it!
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
click on the images
to enlarge |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
We've got a
lot of history here, like the one of Hans Staden, a
German who worked for the Portuguese Crown in the 16th
century and who shipwrecked in Itanhaém. Sometime later,
he was sent to Bertioga, where he was captured by the
Tupinambá Indians, capital enemies of the Portuguese and the Tupiniquin Indians who lived in Itanhaém. And there's
more: the Fathers Joseph of Anchieta and Nóbrega, who
helped to keep the union of the Brazilian territory.
There's also the history of the
French Colony in Rio de Janeiro called the Antarctic
France back in the 16th century, where voyagers like
Jean de Léry and André Thevet lived among the Indians
for sometime. When both returned to Europe,
they wrote books on this real wild adventure showing
more on the indian life at that time. There are
also the legends, like the ones of M'Boitatá or simply
Boitatá - a snake of fire (was that an UFO or a space
proble?) that used to appear in the forest and right
before the Indians (sometimes killing them as some
Jesuits had remarked), the Iara (river mermaid), the
Boto (a dolphinman), the Uirapuru (a birds that has
the most beautiful birdcall in the whole world) and many
others we bet you've never heard of!
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
click on the images
to enlarge |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
So, come on in, friends! Stay with us and get ready for "the
adventure"! You'll discover the Brazilian Southern Shores which
is The Coast of the Atlantic Forest just in time to find out a little
bit more about this huge, continental country that is our
Brazil! Welcome!
SORRY FOR THE
INCONVENIENCE - MOST MENUS IN ENGLISH ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION -
THANK YOU
TOP
