Travel Guide Valença

Heir to the "sesmarias" (concessions made to the nobles who settled there), the opulence of Valença developed thanks to an agriculture based on coffee. Today, the city has grown and its economy has diversified and modernized. There are still many beautiful vestiges of its past and the nature is superb, between mountains, fazendas and waterfalls. Since the golden age of coffee, Valença has preserved its traditions, its many festivities and customs that sometimes arrived with the Portuguese nobility. The church of Nossa Senhora da Glória, the historical town houses and the countless fazendas of the coffee cycle, revere its rich past.