The Republican Trem covers a journey of 7 kilometers with a journey that lasts about 40 minutes. It is one of the ways to connect the cities of Itu and Salto.

Itu was once the richest city in the state, being famous for having resided in it many ” coffee barons ” and important authorities of the country. 

The municipality was important in the process that led to the proclamation of the Republic of Brazil in 1889. How? 

In 1860, with the crisis in the international sugar market and the conflict between Ituanian politicians and farmers against the imperial government. It made the republican movement grew in Itu.

As a resulted, in 1873, in the holding of the first republican convention in the country. People who were supporting oth sides came to this city, most of them by this very train.