Museu Virtual de Maricá

To a place usually associated with beach, Maricá has in your municipal district very interesting things to know or to see, as horto of orchids and hibiscuses, creation of buffalos and snails besides a lot of more thing in your last history.

Formerly a municipal distric of appreciable agricultural export, where even grape was cultivated * and wine was manufactured *, in another time one of the great centers of fishing of the state, your old and now inexistent railroad transported the salt that came from Araruama. With a church that is one of the oldest in the Fluminense area, for here passed Anchieta, princes and princesses.

Alligators and sea turtles already had here and to our beaches mysteries arrive brought by the sea. In a more recent era, the military repression in the decade of 60 left marks of your passage, but our false Pão-de-Açúcar in Itaipuaçú or even the fantastic views of Ponta Negra, continue as at the beginning of our history.