Colonial centre
Old mansions.
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Viçosa do Ceará is a historic town of about 60,000 people on the Serra da Ibiapaba plateau in north-west Ceará, a short drive from Ubajara, and the first Portuguese settlement in the range. The Aconguaçu people lived at the plateau's northern end, alongside the great Tabajara nation, known as the «Lords of the Mountain». The first Europeans to deal with them were the French, who set up a trading post from 1590 to trade with the Tabajara. The jurist Clóvis Beviláqua, author of Brazil's Civil Code, was born in the town. Its centre keeps colonial buildings, old mansions and a square named after Beviláqua, and its heights look out over the wide plains of Ceará, with a climate cooler than the coast. It makes a lovely stop on the plateau road between Ubajara and Tianguá.
Old mansions.
Over the plains.
Cooler than the coast.
Viçosa do Ceará, Serra da Ibiapaba, Ceará state
The jurist Clóvis Beviláqua, author of Brazil's Civil Code.