Centro de Turismo

Located in an old prison, now the Centro de Turismo, along with a handicraft market and a tourist information. Displays many fine examples of folk art as well as boats and other cultural relics.

Museu de Arte e Cultura Popular

Plenty of greenery and the place to catch the city's best street performers. The square, which used to functioned as a bus station, is today frequented by small market stalls and food carts. On the southern side of this square is the eponymous theater building.

Praça José de Alencar

In a late 19th-century seat of state government. Explains the history of the state of Ceará and its capital.

Museu do Ceará

An all too common sight in South America; Fortaleza has a beautiful railway station... but traffic ended in 1975.

Fortaleza railway station