Belem Old Town

The Old Town is the place where Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco was founded on January 12, 1616.

The Old Town district is the oldest in Belem do Para. There are numerous historical colonial buildings with Portuguese tiles, many of which are objects of the national historical and artistic heritage of Brazil. The streets of the district are named after cities or famous people in Portugal or Brazil.

The old town was founded on the riverbank to export and import rubber during rubber fever. In this area to this day you can see houses that survived the history of the founding of the city and rubber fever, which brought the city a lot of money and luxury.

In the Old Town there are the most famous sights of Belem: the fort of the Nativity of Christ, the house of the Eleven Windows, the palaces of Lauro Sodre and Antonio Lemos, the Cathedral of Belem and many others.