The city of Embu in the mid XVll century the “companhia de jesus” priests gave the Indian village its original and today known name M'Boy, Boy, Bohi, Bohu, Emboi, Alboy, Embohu.
The diversity of names given to this small Indian village where all registered by “Sergio Buarque de Holanda” due to the extension of the region where the village was discovered.
In 1939 and 1940, Jesuita Residence and Nossa Senhora do Rosario are named as National and Historical Monuments of Brazil.
Street
Market of Handmade Art Occupying all the central area of the city, it invites the
visitor to take a walk enters the historical Brazil period.
Embu is today a scenario of legends and of traditional Brazilian folklore, some are illustrated in the book “Embu- Terra das Artes, Berco de Tradição” of Moacir de Farias Jordão 1972.
