MARIA DA FÉ - YOU NEED TO VISIT THIS CITY!
Maria da Fé is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais. Its estimated population in July 2014 was 14,534 inhabitants.[4] The municipal seat is at an altitude of 1,258 meters.[7]
Maria da Fé is one of the coldest municipalities in the state of Minas Gerais. In winter, minimum temperatures can drop below 0 °C.[8]
The municipality is located in the heart of the Serra da Mantiqueira mountain range, very close to the São Paulo resort town of Campos do Jordão and the Minas Gerais resort towns known as the Circuito das Águas (Water Circuit).
The city also has a Cultural Center, where historical and tourist information about the municipality is available, as well as the Casa do Artesão (House of the Artisan), a space created for the exhibition of handicrafts from the city.
In Getúlio Vargas Square are some of the oldest olive trees in the city, known nationally as the City of Olive Trees, since the Maria da Fé experimental farm of the Minas Gerais Agricultural Research Company (EPAMIG) is the only producer of olive tree seedlings in Brazil, and which gave rise to two genuinely Brazilian olive varieties, resulting from crossbreeding and years of research by the institution: the JB and the Maria da Fé.
History
President Vargas Square, Maria da Fé, 1959. National Archives.
The itinerary established by Antônio Kivet's expedition, back in 1579, described the route as follows: "Search for the Sapucaí Valley, the top of the valley, the top of Campos do Jordão, after the Serra da Mantiqueira, passing through fields and plateaus covered with araucaria trees."
This itinerary coincides entirely with the region where the municipality of Maria da Fé is located. However, there is only effective news of an actual colonization of the region when the Maria da Fé farm established a settlement called Campos de Maria da Fé next to its headquarters, around 1815.
The name of the municipality has two possible origins: the first would honor an enterprising and energetic woman who managed the farm and its business. The other would be that of a beautiful young woman, who came with one of the expeditions that crossed those parts and who would have married Chief Jiquitibá, because he had agreed to reveal the secret of the region's gold mines to explorers. As the chief's wife, she would have erected a large wooden cross, a symbol of her faith, converting the tribe to the Christian religion.
Due to the special efforts of its most influential residents, the village became a district and was incorporated into the municipality of Cristina on June 27, 1859, with the name Maria da Fé. The municipality was legally created on August 30, 1911, separating from the municipality of Pedra Branca (today Pedralva), and installed on June 1, 1912, forming its first Municipal Chamber.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the municipality of Maria da Fé registers one murder every half century (50 years). The city's police station doesn't even have a jail. The police officer has never needed to draw his weapon on a criminal.
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