Hino de Rio das Ostras - RJ

Going back in time and space
The past now happens again
Told and sung in rhythm
Of this anthem made to exalt
The flourishing city, that one day
Had its roots planted in this land
Watered by the blood of the belonging natives
To the nation of the heroic goitacazes!

Rio das Ostras!
Land of the Fish of Vila Rainha
That preserved
The purity it once had
May all the glory
Of the Crown imposed upon it
Preserve the history
Of resistance and valor!
Mother city
Of those born or those who come to it
Rio das Ostras, city, most beautiful pearl!

The waters of Leripe and the seas
Witnessed the slow miscegenation
The miracle of love overcoming
The conflicts of colonization
The church near the Poço de Pedras
That, when it collapsed, turned into a seed of unity
Gave rise to the chapel that was later built
The new Church of Senhora Conceição!

Rio das Ostras!
Land of the Fish of Vila Rainha
That preserved
The purity it once had
May all the glory
Of the Crown imposed upon it
Preserve the history
Of resistance and valor!
Mother city
Of those born or those who come to it
Rio das Ostras, city, most beautiful pearl!

The steam train overcomes the wind
And enters whistling at the old station
Spreading the honey of the sugarcane it transports
And sweetly building this land
The fisherman symbolizing our people
Next to the oyster and the swift sharks
Represents the freedom inherited by the riostrenses, so brave (bravo!), brave Brazilians!

Rio das Ostras!
Land of the Fish of Vila Rainha
That preserved
The purity it once had
May all the glory
Of the Crown imposed upon it
Preserve the history
Of resistance and valor!
Mother city
Of those born or those who come to it
Rio das Ostras, city, most beautiful pearl!