in the
guanabara bay,
praia de galeão received
its name from a large ship built on ilha de governador in the
seventeenth century.
a shipyard was established on the
guanabara bay, where the waters were much calmer than those of the south
zone beaches.
portuguese shipbuilders were the best in the
world - the ship was called the 'galeão padre eterno', or
the galleon of the eternal father, and was the largest ship ever
built at the time.