BÚZIOS STORY FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Learn how the city became what it is today !

During the twentieth century , Armacao dos Buzios lived some significant economic cycles . In the first two decades , then the 3rd district of Cabo Frio survived marketing of salted fish and banana plantation.
At the turn of the century , more precisely in the 20s , the banana cultivation gained expression with the arrival of the German engineer Eugenne Honold region. Becoming the owner of Fazenda Campos Novos , acquired the Jesuits , Honold extended its properties throughout the peninsula , reaching the Bones , aiming mainly to expand its investment. The business progressed , employing almost all locals .

Despite the difficulty regarding the quality of the local workforce , the production found ready markets in Europe . However , disagreements administrative and operational nature hindered the smooth progress of the project , making Honold leave Buzios after arson fire that extinguished , altogether planting .

At this time , Buzios presented urban infrastructure and community facilities in a situation of precariousness notorious . The only access road to Cabo Frio was in poor condition and the region did not have school. The water came from public or private wells and public illumination was obtained by means of lamps of castor oil . The diet was based mainly on seafood , cassava flour , banana and seasonal fruits . The villas , in turn , were simple , short, with colonial tiles , whitewashed , externally and internally . The only local festival was dedicated annually to Sant'Anna .

Some years later , the heirs of Honold , realizing the value and potential of those lands , decided to resume investments in the region , creating the Odeon Company , initiating thus a pioneer colonization project , which inaugurated the modern phase of Buzios .

By the '50s , and at the initiative of families and Sampaio Ribeiro Dantas , the City began receiving basic infrastructure . Opened the first road / avenue - the current Avenue Bento Ribeiro Dantas - which cuts across the city around which arose the first allotments sold to some vacationers to homebuilding weekend .

In 1951, he implanted the first bus line Cabo Frio , Buzios , facilitating access to medical, educational and public service offices . That same year , Bento Ribeiro Dantas , then president of the airline Cruzeiro do Sul, builds his summer residence in Manguinhos . His involvement with the village was such that eventually attracted other tourists to the region . Because of the commitment shown , was appointed Honorary Administrator of the 3rd District of Cabo Frio .

The growth of Buzios allowed the installation , even in the 50s , a school in Manguinhos , where he studied all the old guard of Buzios three warehouses and a sub registry office . This decade has electric lighting , provided by a diesel engine , located in the Plant , operated dusk to run until 22pm, weekdays , and until midnight on Saturdays and Sundays was implanted . Two handsets with crank and assistance of an operator, connected in extension , and another one in Manguinhos in Bones Beach , and a gas poor health , equipped with water pump and wood stove , met the inhabitants of the region .
This village was found by Brigitte Bardot when , in the early 60s , arrived in Buzios .
Delighted with the locality extended their stay , awaken the world's attention to the region , which entered the international tourism calendar as a simple , yet sophisticated place.

However , the central core of the city at that time was limited to the Beach Bones , coexisting with another concentration in Manguinhos . In the current street of stones , at that time without the stones , there was only one church, the bar Pacato , the house - inn and Ramon dos Búzios .

If , in the 20s, the arrival of Eugenne Honold meant a milestone in the history of local development , the stay of Brigitte Bardot and the inauguration of the Rio-Niterói Bridge in the 70s , helped to boost tourism and the consequent occupation in the 3rd District Cabo Frio .

However , the rapid growth , spurred by the landowners and foreign installed in the region not had the support of the municipal government . Speculative interventions , performed without due attention to the built and landscape heritage , led to various social , economic, political and environmental consequences . This " developmental " increase messed brought , also without acautelatórias control measures , the purchase of homes of fishermen, tailored to provide greater comfort , the establishment of numerous hotels , restaurants and bars .

However , despite some improvements , locals , allied to influential landowners and vacation homes , dissatisfied with their treatment by the Buzios Cabo Frio , started in the late 80s, the process of emancipation . In December 1995 , the municipality was created of Buzios , after more than 10 years the population claim and conducting plebiscite obtained , as a result , 96 % of votes in favor of emancipation .
The following year , 1996, the local population has elected for the first time , the Mayor and his representatives for the Town Hall , starting an entirely new political- administrative and socio-economic process.

From emancipation , Buzios experienced a real " boom " growth often disordered , characterized by irregular occupations in areas of permanent preservation, as the top of hills , edge of ponds and sites with slope above allowed for buildings . The new buildings have become luxurious , architecturally bolder , yet preserving the so-called " Buzios Style" . Multiplied gated communities , housing developments of high-level , most of them settled along the coastlines , triggering a process of " privatization " of the beaches .

Buzios in his career , became undoubtedly a special place where the beauty of nature inside houses the coexistence of different lifestyles and worldviews . Traces of primitive guarded still live side by side , with extremely sophisticated and modern interventions that show a typical complex social organizations peculiar level of heterogeneity .
The expansion of tourism , coupled with the strong presence of foreign , Argentine and French , mostly set in the city , especially from the 70s , spurred the inclusion of Buzios in key international routes, making it a meeting point of many nationalities , religions , languages ​​and cultures .