A little of the history and the beginning of the population of Rio Grande do Norte, today is transformed into ruins and total abandonment, the city of Extremoz, and at the edges of a beautiful lagoon, and all little than thirty kilometers from Natal. The ruins of the small site of the Igreja de São Miguel, now, is witness of the great importance that the catequese Jesuit had, with their missions, during the period of Brazilian Portuguese settlements, especially along the coast of Rio Grande do Norte.

Any person who has a commitment with history laments the indifference and the abandonment which was relegated by the public power and by the Church one of the most important workmanships of the colonial architecture. In the small site, attention is called to the fact from what remained of the church that, if conserved, could be considered as the most beautiful temple of the colonial period, obeying a baroque style that is called jesuítico, in a impotency distributed in 16 meters of height to 13.5 meters in width.

According to researcher and master of the potiguar culture, Luiz da Câmara Cascudo , who passed 10 days visiting the ruins, the walls had 80 centimeters, resisted as walls extending 30 meters of length, 20 high, four for the chapel mor and six for the sacristia. The walls did not have foundations. They dived 1,80 meters for the bedrock land, and if they stand, direct and magnificent, as they come from the deep. The rocks, with oyster signals indicated that they had come of the coast.

As related by Cascudo, the entire church was a beauty of worked rocks, workmanship of Portuguese artists, rock-lioz, fine, cinereous, clear and white granulation. Ombreiras, threshold, arcs, coverings, everything came from Lisbon, ready to install, measured, foreseen, calculated. Inside of the church was the cemetery. When in 1909, they had pulled out the wooden floor turn the tombs, equal, standardized, all with the seven classic hand widths. Not fitting the deceased in its last stream bed, they sawed the tíbias to it. The cross that presided over crimalha of the front is the actual cross. The three doors of the old church, especially the main one, were of wood darco and the windows, adapted, are today the doors of the new church.

The presence of the Jesuit mission in the locality of Guajirú, today Extremoz, occurred in the period of 1603 thru 1759. The land was granted by the Portuguese government, through the captain-mor Jerônimo de Albuquerque. They educated the indians tupis-potiguares and janduís paiacus. One of the first Jesuits sent for the Mission was the priest Gaspar de Samperes, architect, who projected the Fort dos Reis Magos and the Igreja de São Miguel, that today is in ruins.

In 1689, the Portuguese colonization promoted the slaughter of the indians and the famous Domingos Jorge Velho was present and commanded the sacrifice of 2.063 indians. The Jesuits protested and from then on the process of their expulsion from the village of Guajirú started.

To arrive at the ruins of the Guajirú, it is enough to face the highway that binds to Natal with Extremoz. It also has a tarred road leaving of the beach of Genipabu. The historical small farm is located almost in the center of the city. The trip also allows beautiful vision of the lagoon of Extremoz and you can know grude, a traditional tidbit of the city, artisanally manufactured based of gum, coconut and salt, in forminhas that are cooked in the firewood ovens. For the most dedicated and adventurers, nothing is better than going by train, in a trip of bucolical landscapes, showing the interior of Natal that is not normally shown to the tourist and the reality of what the native faces to move themselves to their work.