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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 most ancient town in Brazil, right after São Vicente,
founded in the 16th century, more precisely in 1532, on April
the 22nd, by the Portuguese Navigator, Martim Afonso de Souza. In the beginning, the city was named Conception of
Itanhaém, since the Portuguese had consecrated the Village to Our Lady of Conception.
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 and many other chapters of the local history.
Come to Itanhaém and discover in the Southern Shores a great variety of beaches, many
species of colorful birds from the forest, waterfalls hidden in
the deep bluish green of the high mountains of the Sea Mountain
Range, beautiful rivers, an incredible sea dotted with Islands and
Islets that are the 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 will be able to choose
among white sand beaches or other ones with darker sand, some
small and some others as big as a beach can be, places like this
one, where
the blue sky meets the sea as though the view were an unreal
watercolor.
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 would be sent to Bertioga, where he was captured by the Tupinamba Indians,
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, the French Colony in Rio, called the Antarctic
France back in the 16th century, where voyagers like Jean de Léry and André Thevet lived
among the Indians for sometime and later returning to Europe,
both of them wrote books on this real wild
adventure. 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 before
the Indians (sometimes killing them), the Iara, the Boto,
the Uirapuru and many others we bet you've never heard of!
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 and
you'll find out a
little bit more about this big country that is our Brazil!
SORRY FOR THE
INCONVENIENCE - MOST MENUS IN ENGLISH ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION -
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