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Gramado & Canela -A trip to the Mountain Resorts of Southern Brazil

Gramado & Canela -A trip to the Mountain Resorts of Southern Brazil


Gramado is a small touristic town, in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the Serra Gaúcha region.
Most of the population of Gramado are of German or Italian descent. Gramado is one of the towns along the scenic
route known as Rota Romântica.(Romantic Route)

The city hosts the Festival de Gramado, a major South American film festival and Gramado's most important event.
It's also known by hydrangeas blossoming in late spring. Another key event in Gramado is Natal Luz, when
Gramado is decked out in lights for Christmas celebrations.
The city is famous for its chocolate and clothes/furniture shops, international restaurants and spa hotels.

Like sister town Gramado(8km away), Canela is an important mountain resort that draws thousands of tourists each year.
Ecoturism is very popular in the area and there are many opportunities for hiking, rock climbing, horseback riding and
river rafting. The main tourist attraction in Canela is the famous
Parque do Caracol with the 131m waterfall at its centre.
Its stone cathedral is also famous.

Both cities atracts a large number of turists during winter when they can experience below freezing
temperatures and, occasionally, snow.

The pictures below where taken during a weekend in September.



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Road between Porto Alegre(capital of the state 120 km away) and Gramado

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Entrance gate to Gramado
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Kikito square
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Joaquina Bier Lake
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Lago Negro....Black Lake
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Quilombo valley between Gramado and Canela

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Shops and restaurants on the road between the two cities(8km away)

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Canela's central area

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Houses in the area

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Parque Estadual do Caraco and its waterfall(131m)

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Nice springtime photos!
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thanks for sharing your photos with us SSPers, Gerson!!

I wish you would post more here, specially your AWESOME aerial photos!
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Gramado in a rare snowy day in winter.

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Beautiful pics! This is an amazing design - almost has an element of Gaudi about it.
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What a beautiful place. I would never have guessed it was Brazil if I hadn't read the title.
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Beautiful shots!
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My God that place is beautiful, I would have thought it was somewhere in Europe if the title didn't say Brazil.
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Love it! I love the mountain towns of Brazil. They sort of look like something you'd see in the Alps.
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Love it! I love the mountain towns of SOUTHERN Brazil. They sort of look like something you'd see in the Alps.
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its just some 90km from where I live...
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Lovely. Are these quaint towns football hotbeds, too? Or do all of the players come from lower-income areas of Rio and Sao Paulo?

What's the football "geography" of Brazil?
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Lovely. Are these quaint towns football hotbeds, too? Or do all of the players come from lower-income areas of Rio and Sao Paulo?

What's the football "geography" of Brazil?
this is a question that involves lots of different things.

1 - the biggest clubs are in the major cities, specially south and southeast cities (São Paulo, Rio, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Porto Alegre), but also from Salvador (Bahia) and Recife (Pernambuco), in the northeast. But northeast clubs swing more between divisions (they get relegated more often). But there are football clubs all over the country.

2 - players come from all over the country, including quaint towns. Some come from poor small towns in the northeast. Others come from the capitals all over the country, others from rural farming towns in the west, others from small high quality towns like these ones.


Some examples:

Dunga (Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri), the actual brazilian NT coach and captain of the team who won the 1994 World Cup, is from the city of IJUÍ, with 79k people.

credits: (all over the photo )

source: Wikipedia

source: Wikipedoa

Alexandre Pato (Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva), Milan striker, was born in the small PATO BRANCO, in Paraná state, with 70k people


Taffarel (Cláudio André Mergen Taffarel), the goalkeeper of the national team in 1990, 1994 and 1998 World Cups, was born in Santa Rosa, 66k people.

source: Santa Rosa city administration website (www.santarosa.rs.gov.br)


ok, it was just an accident that these 3 players I chose were all born in cities at the 70k range


some others
Falcão (Paulo Roberto Falcão), a great player from the 1982 brazilian team was born in Abelardo Luz, a town of 16k people in Santa Catarina state


Lucas Pezzini Leiva, who plays for the NT and for Liverpool, was born in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul state, 200k

source: Wikipedia

Pelé, the best player ever, was born in Três Corações (Three Hearts), in Minas Gerais state, with 80k

source: www.achetudonaregiao.com.br
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hey people, just reminding people here that I once posted a thread about Gramado, too. Here is the link to the thread... check it out and reply if you hadnt seen it yet!
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...hlight=gramado
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Lively places, south is really amazing with so many blond with blue-eye people, where make me feel in other country
and of course, the architecture, the clean cities and cold weather

Thanks for sharing!

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Absolutely beautiful places & pics. Brazil facinates me. I sometimes forget how diverse and huge it is. Great set Gerson. Love the waterfall pics too.
Thanks for sharing with us.


btw, yes Trantor I knew I'd seen a tread showing Gramado before.
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