Angra dos Reis, Brazil Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

From Mangaratiba, the road hugs the coast as it wends its way westwards, rising and falling between towering green-clad mountains and the ocean. Roughly 60km west of Mangaratiba lies the shabby and rather unprepossessing little town of ANGRA DOS REIS . The lands around here were “discovered” by the navigator André Gonçalves in 1502, though it wasn’t until 1556 that a colonial settlement was established. The port first developed as an entrepôt for the exportation of agricultural produce from São Paulo and Minas Gerais in the seventeeth century. Fifteen slave-worked … more »