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Tourism

MARINGÁ - TOURISM

      

      

The city was officially founded on 10 May 1947 and currently has a population of 406,693 inhabitants (IBGE/2017).

Maringá is a city with a diverse economy, with an entrepreneurial spirit, acting intensively in the development and maintenance of the city’s quality of life. The city has an innovative idea of urbanization; it has an intense urban forestation, with one tree per capita and a common green area of 55m² per inhabitant.

Maringá is always present in lists of Brazilian cities worthy of visiting. The significant presence of natural life and its many attractions were officially acknowledged by EMBRATUR (Brazilian Tourism Agency) in November 1997, when the city was recognized as a tourist destination.

 

 

 

 

  

National and Municipal Holidays

NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
 
 
JANUARY
 

1st - New Year’s Day

 FEBRUARY

5th - Carnival

 MARCH

21st - Good Friday (Passion of Christ)

 APRIL

21st - Tiradentes

 MAY

1st - Labor Day

22nd - Corpus Christi

 SEPTEMBER

7th - Brazilian Independence Day

 OCTOBER       

12th - Brazilian Patroness Day (Our Lady of Aparecida)

 NOVEMBER

2nd - All Souls’ Day

15th - Brazilian Proclamation of the Republic

 DECEMBER

25th - Christmas

 

 

MUNICIPAL HOLIDAYS

MAY

10th - Maringá Anniversary

AUGUST

15th - Maringá Patroness Day