Fortaleza, Brazil Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

FORTALEZA is a sprawling city of over two million inhabitants, the centre literally bristling with offices and apartment blocks. It has, for well over a century, been the major commercial centre of the northern half of the Northeast. More recently it has poured resources into expanding its tourist trade, lining the fine city beaches with gleaming luxury hotels and developing the city centre. Taken together, this means that little trace remains of the city’s eventful early history , the clue to which is in its name: Fortaleza means “fortress”. The first Portuguese settlers arrived in 1603 … more »