A legend tells that the Priest Belchior de Pontes walked up from Itanhaém to the plateau to find a place to found a Jesuit School. On his way, he got lost in the forest. An indian helped him and took him, uncouncious, to a hut. The indian left him to bring water and didn’t come back. Afterwards they found him dead surrounded by a big snake, called M’Boy in the Guarani language.

The Priest Belchior buried the indian according to the customs and raised the Chapel Nossa Senhora do Rosário and later on the church, in that very place.

The first name of the village was given after the snake: M’Boy, that turned to Embu afterwards.

At the end of the 60s, Embu was the picture of the slogan "Piece and love“ from the hippie movement. Invited by the local artists, hippies craftmen started coming to the city on weekends, making ehibitions of their work on the main streets, beside the land crafts. That’s how the Arts and Craft Fair, which takes place there every weekend began, since 1969.
The huge success of this fair, which attracts inside and outside visitors, thrives a permanent trade of crafts, antiques, country styled furniture shops and art galleries, which have become the trade mark of the city.
In this whole day tour we will visit the main sights of the city, like the lanes and colonial houses, as well as the crafts fair.

Lunch is not included.