Aracaju, Brazil Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

From Maceió seven buses a day run to ARACAJU , capital of the neighbouring state of Sergipe with a population of 430,000, a little-visited and rather anonymous place. Although the Portuguese founded a colony here in 1592, the capital of the infant state was moved to nearby São Cristóvão. Then, in the mid-nineteenth century, there was a sudden vogue for purpose-built administrative centres (similar to the urge that led to the construction of Brasília a century later), and the core of modern Aracaju was thrown up overnight, becoming the state capital again in 1855. Like the other state … more »