Category: Rio Grande do Sul

The most famous event of Pelotas is the Feira Nacional do Doce (known as ‘’FENADOCE’’), which occurs once a year since 1986. On of the greatest touristy attractions of Rio Grande do Sul, the FENADOCE mixes gastronomy, leisure and culture. The candies of the fair are mainly Portuguese, but there is space for German, Italian [...]

The Public Library of Pelotas was founded by Joaquim Dias (a Portuguese reporter) in 1875, November, 14. It has about 100.000 volumes, the second biggest book collection in Rio Grande do Sul State. The library also has collections of all the newspapers published in the city. The Carlos Ritter Natural History Museum has a collection [...]

The region of Pelotas is the largest producer of peaches for the canning industries in Brazil, besides other products, such as: asparagus, cucumber, fig and strawberry. The city accounts for about 28% of rice production and 16% of cattle herds in its state. The main industries are related to agribusiness, textile, leather tanning and baking. [...]

The first historical reference to the current Pelotas City is a document of June of 1758, a letter of donation of lands lying on the shores of Patos Lake. The letter documented the donation that Gomes Freire de Andrade, Count of Bobadela, made to Colonel Thomaz Luiz Osorio. Running from Spanish invasion, in 1763, a [...]

The main festivity of Caxias do Sul is the ‘’Festa da Uva’’ (‘’Grape Fest’’), biennial event that has occurred since 1931. With duration of fifteen days, the festival has several booths showing typical farming products of the region, music concerts, folkloric dances, parade of floats on which appear the Queen and the Princesses of the [...]

The Centenário Park, with 6,18 acres of area, has native vegetation, including araucarias. The National Monument to Immigrant was inaugurated in 1954 by President Getulio Vargas in person. Created by the sculptor Antonio Carangi, the monument is made of bronze and has 4.5 m high, depicting the heroism of immigrants who left their homeland and [...]

Caxias do Sul is known in the whole Brazil for its grape production, but the production of apple, tomato, corn and honey is also important. In livestock, the most relevant herds are cattle, pigs and quails. The industrial sector represents half of companies in the city, a high rate compared to other Brazilian cities. The [...]

Before the arrival of the Italian immigrants, the region was inhabited by natives and the place was thus known as ‘’Campo dos Bugres’’. In the second half of the nineteenth century, due to the war of unification, Italy was undergoing severe economic and social crisis. The imperial government of Brazil decided to take advantage of [...]

Luis Felipe Scolari (football coach), Beto Albuquerque (politician), Leticia Birkheuer (model), Gustavo Endres (volleyball player), Marco Antonio de Mattos Filho (football player), Marcos Daniel (tennis player), Múcio de Castro (reporter), Airton Langaro (engineer), Nicolau de Araújo Vergueiro (physician) and Beto Bruno (singer of the music group Cachorro Grande) were born in Passo Fundo. The nickname [...]

Passo Fundo has a curious monument called ‘’A Cuia’’ (‘’The mate gourd’’). Donated in 1957, August, 7 by the Governor of Sao Paulo to celebrate the centenary of the city, the mate gourd shows one of the traditions of Rio Grande do Sul, the ‘’chimarrão’’, which, much more than a simple tea, represents the hospitality [...]

The economy of the city relies mainly on agriculture, livestock and trading. The sector of retail trade and services, by the way, is the largest employer in Passo Fundo, representing 70% of the jobs. The city is considered the third largest medical center in region South of Brazil, having modern hospitals. The tourism and the [...]

In the early years of the nineteenth century, the current state of Rio Grande do Sul was a vast area divided in only four municipalities: Rio Grande, Porto Alegre, Rio Pardo and Santo Antonio da Patrulha. The area that today is territory of Passo Fundo belonged to the municipality of Rio Pardo and was inhabited [...]

Jonas Sulzbach (model), Lauro Muller (politician), Maristane Dresh and Julia Feldens (actresses) were born in Lajeado. The official coat of arms of the city has a Lusitanian cross that represents the Catholic faith, a drawing of Conventos Hill (historical landmark of German colonization), a farmer (which represents the economical base of the city), blue wavy [...]

The João Frederico Schaan Municipal Public Library has more than 20.000 volumes. It also has a children’s ward, an auditorium with capacity for 60 people and offices for research. In the same building of the library, runs the Municipal Historical Archive, with a collection of documents, photos and antique maps of the city. At Osvaldo [...]

The main economical activities of Lajeado are related to food industry, having large companies of the sector, such as: Perdigão, Minuano, Docile, Florestal and Fruki. Being close to Estrela Port and the federal highway BR-386, the city is important in Taquari Valley to run off the production and to integrate the consumer markets. The tourism [...]

Around 1830, in a place called Conventos Velhos, José Inácio Teixeira built houses and bought some plots of land, transferring it later to Antonio Fialho de Vargas. Antonio was one of the first to settle in the region, buying farms and promoting local colonization by selling plots of land to people from other cities that, [...]

The name of the city is homage to Italian General Bento Gonçalves da Silva, who fought for Italian unification and also was one of the leaders of Revolução Farroupilha in Brazil. The nickname of the city is ‘’Capital of Wine’’. The population of Bento Gonçalves is 107.341 inhabitants (data from IBGE in 2010) and the [...]

The Weaving House, property of Justina Foresti’s family, maintains the manual production of textiles (blankets, rugs and other) in historical looms craft. Visitors watch the production process and can purchase items made in house. In Sheep House, wooden edifice built in 1917, the visitor may watch the process of industrialization of cheese, yogurts and milk [...]

Bento Gonçalves is one of the ten greater economies of Rio Grande do Sul State. The city accounts for 40% of its state and 8% of the national production of furniture.  Another sector extremely important for local economy is viniculture: annually are produced more than 127 thousand tons of grapes and the equivalent of 91 [...]

The settlement of the area only occurred in the nineteenth century. Before 1870, the area known as ‘’Cruzinha’’ was inhabited only by natives. In 1875, starts the Italian immigration, resulting in three colonies, among them, the Colony Dona Isabel, which today is Bento Gonçalves City.  This colony hosted a small business in which the troopers [...]

About: Rio Grande do Sul is one of 27 units of Brazil. Located in the Southern Region, has limits as the state of Santa Catarina to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, south to Uruguay and Argentina to the west, its capital is the city of Porto Alegre.
It is the southernmost state in [...]