Parati, Brazil Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

About 300km from Rio on the BR-101 is the Costa Verde’s main attraction, the town of PARATI . Inhabited since 1650, Parati (or more correctly, Vila de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios de Paraty) has remained fundamentally unaltered since its heyday as a staging post for the eighteenth-century trade in Brazilian gold, passing from Minas Gerais to Portugal. Before white settlement, the land had been occupied by the Guaianá Indians , and the gold routes followed the old Indian trails down to Parati and its sheltered harbour. Inland raids and pirate attacks necessitated the establishment of a new route … more »