La Prainha is a beach in the municipality of Vila Velha, in Espírito Santo state, Brazil. It is of historical importance, since it was the place where the first grantee of the Captaincy of the Holy Spirit, Vasco Fernandes Coutinho, landed, on May 23, 1535, his Glory, with a crew of 60 Portuguese, beginning the Portuguese colonization of Holy Spirit. Complex that combines historical points with new constructions raised on the region united to land of the municipality. There are the 38th Infantry Battalion, the School of Marines, the Piratininga Fort, the Homero Massena Museum, the Nuestra Señora del Rosario Church, the obelisk to Vasco Fernandes Coutinho and the Plaza de la Bandera and the Ethnographic Museum known as Casa of the Memory, which has valuable documents on the colonization of the municipality and can be visited daily. Place name
The toponym "Prainha" (small beach) comes from the size of the cove, which, compared to the other beaches of the coast of Vila Velha, is small.
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