Centro de Turismo do Ceará (EMCETUR)
Centro de Turismo do Ceará
A craft market in a converted 19th-century public prison, where the cells have become small shops selling lace, wood carvings and sand-art bottles.
The Ceará Tourism Center occupies a public prison built in the 1850s. Its yellow colonial-style buildings enclose a courtyard, and the old cells are now individual craft shops selling handmade lace, wood carvings, leather goods, sand-art bottles and northeastern folk woodcut prints (cordel). The building itself is worth seeing, and some areas have small folk-culture displays. It sits on the seafront in the old city, about a 10-minute walk from the Dragão do Mar Centre. Opening hours on Sundays are shorter.
Opening hours
Mon–Sat approx. 08:00–17:00; Sun approx. 08:00–12:00
Nearby sights
- Passeio Público
- Pinacoteca do Ceará
- Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora da Assunção
- Mercado Central de Fortaleza
- Catedral Metropolitana de Fortaleza
- Museu do Ceará
- Theatro José de Alencar
- Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura