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by Dr. Marcelo A.L. Cardoso

      "The Sweethearts Stone" faces BROCOIÓ Island, nowadays a place of recreation for the State Governor and a long time ago a place of quarantine for the slaves who used to arrive from AFRICA to BRAZIL.

      The most famous myth of PAQUETÁ is "The Little Brunette", an Indian myth that has been geatly divulged in the book with the same name, by the writer JOAQUIM MANUEL DE MACEDO. The scenary of this myth is "The Little Brunette's Stone", another big and rounded stone that faces BROCOIÓ Island too. The originary story is about AHY and AOITIN, two Indian lovers, and Macedo's novel about AUGUST and CAROLINE, a young couple of the XIXth century.

      All the myths of PAQUETÁ you can learn on the book "MYTHS OF PAQUETÁ", by Marcelo A.L. Cardoso.

      The patron saint of PAQUETÁ is Saint Roque, whose the primary church, on the square with the same name, was built in 1698 and around which, at August 16th, is acelebrated the biggest popular religious party of PAQUETÁ - The Saint Roque's Party. But although the patron saint of PAQUETÁ is Saint Roque, the principal catholic church of the island is The Bom Jesus do Monte Church, at Tamoios Beach, and there are also three protestant churches in PAQUETÁ: God's Assembly, at Frades Beach; a Baptist Church, at Cte. Guedes de Carvalho Street; and The Universal Church, at Moreninha Beach.

      There are also three clubs in PAQUETÁ: P.E.C. and P.I.C., at the "BRIDGE"; and MUNICIPAL, a soccer game club at the "FIELD".

      In the building of the Public Library of PAQUETÁ, at Principe Regent Street D. JOHN VI, the Regent Prince of BRAZIL, used to spend his vacations, around 1808.

      JOSÉ BONIFÁCIO DE ANDRADE E SILVA, the Patriarch of Independence, also had lived in PAQUETÁ, in a house at the beach that nowadays has his name and where he had been jailed in domiciliar prison in the first half of the XIXth century.

      In PAQUETÁ there are a lot of trees, with its tropical fruits, at the middle of the streets, and whoever wants can to pick them up.

      Along the entire cost of PAQUETÁ there are a lot of stone's pears stinking out into the sea. They had been old docks for the tying up of the big sail boats (faluas) which were used to catching a great amount of sea shells to the whitewash factories (caleiras) which generally were located in front of these pears. There's the case of the MESBLA Watch, a big marine headlight that faces the COLONY VACANCIES OF MESBLA, a house that had been built in 1870 by JERONYMO JOSÉ RIBEIRO GUIMARÃES. The owner of that whitewash factory. Nowadays the watch was built by MESBLA, a big magazine store that manages the colony of vacancies, but the marine headlight is under the responsibility of the Naval Service of Brazil.

      There are also same squares along the cost of PAQUETÁ that were built by a similar way: the earth embankment of a old pears of the whitewash factories.

      At LOBOS Island there's a marine headlight too, and this island's name is a reference to the ferocious dogs that took change of the firewood that were used to be stored there to being used lathery in the ovens of the whitewash factories.

      But if you like fishing don't you think that a fishing trip would be exciting ? Then go to the Fishers' Colony or to the Yacht Club and adjust a trip like that !

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