Economy of the city fortress

The economy of power and based on agriculture and tourism of the beautiful beaches, and that one of the most beautiful beaches of Brazil and the world even as the beach iracema that it worth to be visited is the photo below showing how and beach.

SIGHTS AND CULTURAL

 Praia do Meireles:

Parque do Cocó:

Lagoa da Messejana:

 Farol do Mucuripe:

Praia de Iracema:

Centro Cultural Dragão do Mar

These are some of the most important tourist spots of strength q conserteza worth visiting.

Culture of Fortaleza

Culture of Fortaleza:

The culture developed in Fortaleza throughout its history has accumulated many forms of expression of the sentiments of its population. The religious tradition is very important to everyday life and values ​​of families fortalezenses. The feast of the patron saint, Our Lady of the Assumption on August 15 is an important event, as well as the June Festivals.

It has a very lively cultural life and traditional. Since the late nineteenth century there existed in the city and various associations and literary and scientific institutions. The Institute of Ceará, which was founded in 1887 is the oldest institution still exists. The Academy of Letters Ceará was the first institution of its kind in the country having sindo founded in 1894. Even in the late nineteenth century, in 1892, Fortaleza was the site of a cultural movement of literary expression called "Spiritual Bakery" which called literary style used in the Week of Modern Art in 1922.

There are currently several cultural centers such as the Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste in the City Centre and most importantly, Dragão do Mar Center of Art and Culture which is located on Iracema Beach, important cultural center and leisure center of Fortaleza.

gastronomy:

The cuisine of Northeastern Fortaleza is typically emphasizing dishes like baião two with BBQ lamb or beef Parasols. Seafood is another ingredient in the kitchen fortalezense dishes such as stew stingray, mackerel and snapper fish stews. Other seafood is quite tasted the crab. All Thursdays is tradition to eat a "caranguejada" crab cooked with sauces. The shrimp is also a delicacy savored well in dishes like "shrimp rice" or "shrimp bobo". Market of Fortaleza is possible to buy a multitude of fish that can be prepared in restaurants neighbors. The most common is to buy up shrimp and prepare it "the oil" in the evening of the weekend.

The gastronomic poles of Varjota, Praia de Iracema and Beira Mar Avenue are the places with the greatest diversity of restaurants of diverse cuisines of various nationalities with emphasis on Arabic, French, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Swiss besides pizzerias, steakhouses, coffee shops, kitchens and contemporary regional. Another gastronomic lies in the south of Fortaleza on the border with Eusebius in tapioqueiras, a sales center with several restaurants specializing in the preparation of this which is one of the typical foods of the Northeast, the tapioca.

Museums:

There are several museums in Fortaleza. The most important ones are Ceará Museum that gathers valuable pieces about the culture and people of Ceará and Fortaleza; Museum of Contemporary Art CDMAC that brings together several works by artists contemporaries and the Art Museum of the Federal University of Ceará that quarda rich collection of artists plastic Ceará as Raimundo Cela, Antonio Bandeira and Chico da Silva. Are nearly thirty museums and memorials that keep local history or universal, such as the museums of the Automobile and Motorcycle Museum with cars from around the world and exclusive Lighthouse of Fortaleza - Fortaleza Museum. It has a sample of old images of Fortaleza.

Listed buildings:

Overturning federal Fortaleza are only 5 buildings being the most important house of José de Alencar and José de Alencar Theater, home and momumento up for one of the greatest personalities of Ceará.

With tipping state are fifteen buildings being the most important João Felipe Station which was the first railway station of Ceará, The Palace of Light which was the seat of government of Ceará and is now the headquarters of the Academy of Arts of Ceará, the Lighthouse of Fortaleza which is one of the symbols of Fortaleza and Cinema St. Louis that is among one of the most beautiful theaters in Brazil.

The city fell in 2007 to 25 buildings or areas of interest of the city. The most important are that in Estoril Praia de Iracema was a casino for the Americans during World War 2. The Market Pine is another important listed building and was the first public market in Fortaleza metal frame has a unique beauty and is currently space for cultural events in the city.

História de Fortaleza.

   

The first half of the 70s, by several factors, represents the inflection point, from which we found metropolisation de facto capital of Ceará. Until that time, we could still identify numerous aspects in its urban geography and customs that they referred to in Fortaleza provincial '30s post-war. It is obvious, however, that this is not a watertight division between the old and new city, since many projects that define modernity that were built in previous decades, as well as elements of provincialism still subsist after the 70s to the present day .
It was during the 70s that the growth of the city, which had over a million inhabitants, has become really visible. Mainly in terms of the urban and formal vertical space, Fortaleza was entitled to the status of metropolis and assumed the absolute primacy of the territory of Ceará, is the advanced process of urban expansion, is the enormous demographic concentration. This fact is due to the role it plays in Fortaleza contraction of the main administrative activities, commercial, industrial, port, social and cultural state.

The catchment area of ​​Fortaleza, according to the IBGE survey 1972, has 52 centers, covering an area of ​​400 square kilometers, with a total population of about seven million inhabitants. Thus comprises the northern half of the states of Maranhão, Piauí and the entire state of Ceará.
Led by the city and devoid of popular participation, Fortaleza passes to enhance urban planning. It discusses the transformation of Fortaleza in regional metropolis and its envelope area in the metropolitan area. The vertical momentum suffers in the east (Aldeota), making this sector the biggest strength of the city's real estate.

According to Professor Borzacchiello José da Silva, "The search for new spaces by the bourgeoisie who resided near the downtown area resulted in marked changes in the city and overvaluation of some neighborhoods, like Aldeota, Meireles, Praia de Iracema, Papicu, district Fatima and others. The Aldeota is undoubtedly the most valued neighborhood of the city to be the favorite of the bourgeoisie and upper middle class. So has the best care infrastructure of urban services, trade and other equipment. During the 1970s, early in the process of vertical outside the central area, small apartment buildings were built in Aldeota. The construction of luxury buildings with large apartments, replacing the large residences, took place from another time.



  Personal Ceará

In the late '60s, in times of dictatorship and repression, a group of artists attending cultural events in the Faculty of Architecture of the UFC and met regularly in Bar Anísio on Avenida Beira-Mar, beachfront of Fortaleza. There, almost every night, until dawn, they produced music, poetry, theater, sharing dreams and songs.

And there were pioneers Augusto Bridges, Petruchio Maia, Roger Rodger, Fausto Nilo, Belchior, Ednardo, Fagner, Brandão, Teti, Yeda Estergilda, Gilmar de Carvalho, Ricardo Bezerra, Alba Paiva, Marli Vasconcelos, Tanya Araújo, Xica, Olga Paiva Pepe, Cirino, Amelia, Jorge Mello, Antonio Carlos, Claudio Pereira, Sérgio Pinheiro, Wilson Ibiapina Guto Benevides, Mino, and many others in a good class of more than 80 names, working in various forms of artistic expression.
In the early 70s many of them left the Ceará bound for Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Brasilia. All we wanted was to show their music and earn a place in the sun. Ednardo, Fagner and Belchior, the main songwriters of the group, began to walk the path that would lead them to success in the southern lands. Thus emerged, the group is called the history of our popular song, such as "Personal Ceará."

The starting of the production of this group was "My body my packaging all spent on the trip - Personal Ceará", album produced by Continental label in 1973, containing songs performed by Ednardo, Rodger Rogério and Teti, artists little known, but from hence, lassoed to Brazil, the music and the composers Ceará.
On condition that the group's leader, was the composer and singer best Ednardo who translated his love of Fortaleza. According to Pedro Rogério,'' 'Terral' and 'the Seaside' - both compositions Ednardo - two songs that stood out in hard-March Personal Ceará, are true hymns, composition of a passionate assumed that, as a son need to prove the sincerity of your feelings, declares his love for the Mother City at the same time, feeling that is already mature enough, let yourself be seduced by other women, other cities, never free itself from the womb. "

In Ceará, this generation of artists, musicians, composers and singers, after more than 40 years of its inception, has yet to be surpassed, either in quality or quantity of his artistic production.

News-'Bathrooms-ball' will be installed throughout Fortaleza to the 2014 World Cup

One of the postcards from Fortaleza receive special equipment for the Confederations Cup in June this year. The City Council authorized the installation of toilets shaped ball on the edge of the capital, in accordance with the Sustainable Public Health Project. According to the Municipal Meeting Cup, 20 units will be installed throughout the city until the 2014 World Cup.

Internal image of the bathrooms, which have been used in the World Cup 2002 (Reuters)
The bathrooms will have, in addition to toilets, baby changing facilities, tactile floor access for people with visual disabilities and support for wheelchair users. The design has been done so that, both water and lighting, to operate in a sustainable manner. The first two bathrooms will be installed in Beira Mar and Iracema Beach.
- Let's start with (Executive Secretary) Regional II (body of the Municipality of Fortaleza that administers the districts of the aforementioned region), to be there holeteiro sector and zone events, which will receive the Fan Fest - explains the Municipal Secretary Extraordinary Cup Domingos Neto.
Has not been defined, however, whether the equipment will remain active after the World Cup. According to information from City Hall, there is no cost to the municipal power. Every investment is made by the company that manages the bathrooms.
- It is a partnership that we have entered into, not only beautify our city and be part of the decoration for the tops, but to meet a need of society - complete Domigos Neto.
See detailed characteristics of 'ball-baths':
- Reuses, recycles, refurbishes and recycles: water and energy;
- Utilizes ramp and tactile floor, for people with disabilities;
- Structure uses reforested wood;
- The roof covering and closing the polycarbonate plates are produced from recycled plastic and scraps acrylics;
- The valves of toilets have flow control with minimum volume necessary to discharge;
- There will be treatment of wastewater: anaerobic filter, septic tank or on the public network.

Iracema Beach

Iracema (the beach of the Bohemians) is the nearest to the center. Limited to the right by a breakwater that divides with Meireles Beach. On the left side, ending at Ponte dos Ingleses (Metallic), the ancient port city. With the highest concentration of restaurants, nightclubs and bars is excellent for those who like the night (the street of Tabajaras is the largest amount of establishments). There the animation starts at dusk and goes until dawn. The Dragon of the Sea Cultural Center, as well as the Pirate club, city landmarks, are in Iracema. For many couples, the evening begins with the setting of the sun at "Ponte dos Ingleses". The setting sun on the English Bridge, also known as Metal Bridge, on Iracema Beach, is a mandatory program for those visiting the city. The statue of Iracema refers to the history of the Indian which was depicted in a novel by José de Alencar. As Mucuripe and Meireles, the Iracema beach is not recommended for swimming in the sea, so the existence of reefs as the water quality. The best urban beach in Fortaleza for bathing is Praia do Futuro.

Castelão Stadium

The Governador Plácido Castelo Stadium, known as Castellan, is a Brazilian football stadium located in Fortaleza, Ceará, and opened in 1973. It is the largest and most modern stadium in the Northeast of Brazil, being the 4th largest in the country, surpassed only by Maracana and Morumbi. The stadium was redesigned in 2002 and completely redesigned again in 2012, aiming at the FIFA World Cup 2014, World Cup for the castellan receive six games, among them two games of the Brazilian team.

His official capacity, even before the reform started in 2011 was 60,326 people [1] and has played host to major sporting and cultural events, such as games of the Brazilian and the reception of Pope John Paul II in 1980 during his visit to Fortaleza. In 2013 will be one of the venues for the Confederations Cup in 2014 will receive matches of the World Cup, and in 2016, will be one of the Training centers for the Olympus to be held in Rio de Janeiro.

CONSTRUCTION

It fell then Aderaldo Castle (former governor of the state of Ceará) to start the construction of an Olympic stadium in Fortaleza. In 1968, they created the Sports Federation Service of the State of Ceará (FADEC), to coordinate the work. The governor Aderaldo Castle wanted the stadium was erected in the neighborhood of Alagadiço, in the west of Fortaleza. High costs to the expropriations unfeasible idea. Other areas of the city were in the neighborhoods studied the Pici and Itaperi. Finally an area of ​​25 acres that belonged to the Santa Casa de Misericordia de Fortaleza was purchased for $ 400,000.00 Cr - four hundred thousand cruises - the time

INAUGURATION

The stadium was inaugurated on November 11, 1973, by the then Governor César Cals de Oliveira Filho. [8] An audience estimated 70,000 people attended the inaugural match between Ceará and Fortaleza. The Classic-called King of Football Ceará ended with the score at 0-0. When opening the stadium had only two flights of bleachers (the parts behind the goals was still to be completed). The former governor and Placido Castelo Governor César Cals authorities welcomed the political and sports, especially the president of the defunct CBD, Silvio Pacheco, plus the playmaker Leonidas da Silva, the "Black Diamond".

REFORM

New Castellan Stadium under construction in August 2012.

Mockup internal Stadium in 2014.

The Castellan is one of the Brazilian stadiums elected to be the headquarters of the 2014 World Cup to be held in Brazil. The stadium renovation project foresees the expansion of its coverage, which will completely cover all the seats, the construction of an underground car park with 4,200 spaces and the approach of the lower stands at 16 meters, compared to the field. With these reforms, the stadium capacity would rise to 67,037.

The concept of the project was to transform the stadium Castellan one of the great centers of the Olympic Country and also a huge tourist complex. The new arena which was reopened on December 16, 2012 and has cinemas and restaurants. The stadium was closed officially on March 31, 2011 in order to reform the World Cup 2014. The last game was valid for Cup Brazil 2011, when the Ceará took 35,000 fans against Brasiliense. In a survey made by the magazine Veja, the Castellan was ranked as the "only stadium whose pace of budget execution is appropriate."

In total, we invested R $ 518.6 million. The arena has gained an underground car park with 4,200 spaces, also structures such as cabins, VIP area, press section, the mixed zone and changing rooms completely renovated. All seats are covered, also received a square of 55 square meters which embraces the whole arena, hospitality area and; internal modifications to meet the specifications of FIFA, including expanding the audience capacity will be increased to 67,037 places.