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.
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.