Places to visit in Fortaleza
There are a lot of places to visit in Fortaleza, but some of them you’ve never heard before as follows:
Praça do Ferreira: is the major city square, and has stores, restaurants, and movie theaters as well as plenty of benches for just sitting and watching people.
Praça José de Alencar: has plenty of greenery and is the place to catch the city’s best street performers.
Dragão do Mar culture center: The relatively new has an art museum and other modern attractions.
Museu de Arte e Cultura Popular: Rua Senador Pompeu, near the beach. Located within the Centro de Turismo, this museum, housed in a single large room, displays many fine examples of folk art as well as boats and other cultural relics.
The sunset, either from Ponte Metalica, Praia Iracema, or the beach by the fish market, Mucuripe.
Parque Ecologico do Cocó: the city’s largest, near the Iguatemi-mall.
Cathedral, city centre: The closer you get, the worse it looks, with a parking lot and all. But it still has nice mosaics. Note the span between the initial works and the inaugural mass, above the main entrance.