Fortaleza Exploration: Discover the Intriguing History and Culture of the City
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68 Ratings
Praia de Iracema
Immerse yourself in the captivating history and vibrant culture of Fortaleza. Explore the city's iconic landmarks, indulge in local cuisine, and experience the true essence of this enchanting destination.
Duration: 10 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Centro - Our experience with the city begins with a walking tour to learn about its history and curiosities: Metropolitan Cathedral of Fortaleza, Fort Nossa Senhora de Assunção and Passeio Público
  • Theatro Jose de Alencar - Guided tour of the most beautiful theaters in Brazil.
  • Aconchego Bistrô Cearense - Moment to touch the palate with the gastronomy of Ceará!
  • Industry Museum - The Museum of Industry is a cultural facility located in Fortaleza, whose purpose is to value and preserve the memories of five centuries of development in the industrial history of Ceará in a space that is equally open to new times of innovation, technology and knowledge.
  • Mercado Central de Fortaleza - Souvenir shopping time!! Discover our handicrafts, nuts and regional items
  • Iracema Beach - Praia de Iracema is a beach in the homonymous neighborhood. Its name comes from the character Iracema, which gives title to the novel Iracema, by the Ceará writer José de Alencar
  • Castelo Branco Mausoleum - Exceptional mausoleum that seems to be floating. It once held the remains of a former president of the country.
  • Beira Mar Avenue - Get to know our shore and its beauty in a panoramic way, with a stop at the statue of Iracema at Praia do Mucuripe and Ceara sign
  • Mercado dos Peixes - We end our experience with the city at dusk at the Fish Market, with the famous Velas do Mucuripe as a backdrop. Opportunity to experience a Happy Hour the way people from Ceará like it at Bar do Boteco.
What's Included
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Tour Guide Accompaniment
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
Additional Information

Fancy an exploration of Fortaleza’s history and culture?

Throughout each passage and pathway, you’ll be enlightened with interesting facts and trivia about the place, indulge in our local cuisine, appreciate our picturesque landscapes, and much more, as we engage all your senses. You’ll be experiencing more than just a city tour, you’ll embark on an enriching journey!

The tour is conducted throughout the day, part of it offering scenic views with pause points for capture-worthy photos and another part facilitating a walking tour through the city’s historic center. This includes a guided exploration of the renowned Theatro Jose de Alencar (admission fee not included).

We cap off the day with an evening at the city’s edge and by the end you’ll feel as much a part of Fortaleza as we are.

Location
Hotel Praia Centro
Avenida Monsenhor Tabosa
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Z1738oqjo_oc
Mar 18, 2024
city tour - City tour was wonderful! With the guide Miriam Franco, a very knowledgeable, friendly and charismatic person! It's really worth the trip!
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E7757fplucasm
Feb 18, 2024
City Tour Fortaleza - A very enriching, pleasurable city tour full of interesting facts about the history of Fortaleza and Ceará! Wonderful! A kiss to the guide Dilma Fontes who accompanied us, very attentive!
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Pedromy1277vf
Feb 18, 2024
City Tour - Fortaleza - Incredible tour of the city, history and knowledge!! City Cathedral Museum of Industry José de Alencar Theater Statue of Iracema And many others... Thank you, our guide, Dilma Fontes! It made the tour lighter, informative and full of joy.
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K7293zbraquelm
Feb 18, 2024
Historical Tour in Fortaleza - Guide: Dilma Fontes - A lot of information that the guide Dilma Fontes offered us about the history of the city, visits to museums, the cathedral, among others, such as the history of Iracema and the novel Iracema by writer José de Alencar.
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Gabrielm363
Feb 17, 2024
History of Fortaleza - The history of the city is wonderful, many beautiful places that are different from the beach focus. Incredible and very special culture in Fortaleza, which is very important to know!
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280c_ntiab
Jan 19, 2024
I loved!!! - The guide Érica, always very lively and attentive, provided my family with new knowledge and curiosities about Fortaleza. We loved it, I highly recommend it.
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W2562qipatrickl
Jan 6, 2024
Perfect tour. - Everything perfect. Super organized team and the guide Mirian and driver Luiz are great, very friendly. Mirian is a friendly person, and makes us feel very comfortable. I loved everything.
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Raimund0carl0sa
Jan 6, 2024
A special tour of Fortaleza. - The guide was very nice and interacted with the tour participants. I recommend. The tour participants were also very nice.
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653estefanyb
Dec 27, 2023
Fortaleza Tour - Our trip was very good! It is very worth getting to know Fortaleza, its history, culture, as well as its beaches. Today the tour was with Guide Dilma Fontes, a native of Ceará with lots of joy and energy. A city tour of the main points!🤝👏👏👏❤️
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796lul
Mar 2, 2024
Be careful with the Guide Rodrigues in Fortaleza - I booked 2 trips with Vitorino Turismo in Fortaleza, one of them was the trip of 3 beaches with the Excellent English-Spanish-Portuguese guide Fatima Franca and the second one was the City Tour with Rodrigues. The tour with Fatima was organized very well. The way how she introduced Brazil and Fortaleza and those 3 beaches was full of the professional passion and speech , great mood , bright emotional stories and always with a smile. But i am so disappointed and upset with the City tour. Rodrigues was late for 15 min, he didn't introduce himself to us, as a guide, he behaved like a driver and when asked the girl seating already in the car :" Is it our guide ? She said :"No, he is a driver , he is driving us to the bus" And when we picked up the couple from Sao Paolo it was a surprise to realize that we were only 4 people in the car and Rodrigues was our guide . The way how he started the tour was: " Poor me, i have to work on Saturday , it is not a privet tour with the money, it is a group tour with only 4 people and i have to be a driver and a guide". He started to do his job in a lazy mood with the behavior , like we owed him . He spoke in Portuguese and he gave me just a couple sentences in English . I said to him for 2 times : " Please speak English , Translate what you said in Portuguese , I paid for this service." He answered:"OK,OK" but kept on speaking only in Portuguese. I could not stand it anymore and i said loudly: "DO YOUR JOB Properly , Translate everything you said in English." The answer was miserable:" It is not a privet tour , I am not obliged to speak English ,If you talk to me loudly, i will drop you in your hotel straight away." He didn't humiliate me by this answer , he humiliated the company he has been working for . I took 3 tours in Recife and 2 tours in Salvador with English speaking guides and the travel companies organized those tours very well , like it was with Fatima. After my complaining to the manager of Vitorino Turismo , Rodrigues suddenly changed his behavior ))))). He found an energy to work properly, not to be lazy anymore, his speech was professional in English, it was stick to the point , no more unnecessary words. Thanks a lot to the manager of Vitorino Turismo for the not ruined city tour on Saturday!
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