Wanderlust of a Flâneur: January 2014

Trip 2014: São Paulo e Sul (Southern Brazil)

My Commentary: I will sum it for now, after about 10 years without visiting our little house in Ilha Comprida, I finally went there with my family. Once there I had the ambitious idea of visiting my friends in the South of Brazil, since Ilha Comprida is in the South of São Paulo. At the end the plan worked better than I thought and I visited many places going by bus and then returning from the extreme South to my town by air plane. The list above follows the sequence of the route I did. It's possible to click in all the towns and get information and photos:

São Paulo

Ilha Comprida, Iguape and Cananéia

Paraná

Curitiba

Santa Catarina

Pomerode

Rio Grande do Sul

Garibaldi, Bento Gonçalves and Carlos Barbosa

Here below there is a picture with some stuff I brought from all the places I visited.

Garibaldi - Trip 2014

Garibaldi is part of the Trip 2014 series

Our Specific Page About Garibaldi

My Commentary: After leaving Pomerode, in Santa Catarina, I went to Blumenau where I took a bus to Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul. It was a long journey of about 8 hours if I remember well. From there I took another bus to finally arrive in Garibaldi where my friend Mirela would be waiting for me so we could start our days of exploring. I was impressed on how Italian Garibaldi is, I was honestly expecting similarities with São Paulo but I was wrong. The towns in Serra Gaúcha region have an unique style influenced by Germans and Italians and even the way the structure and organize the towns are different fom South-east Brazil.

Typical Italian house

Traditional house

Museu Arquivo Histórico Municipal - Historical Archive Museum of Garibaldi

Museu Arquivo Histórico Municipal - Founders of an unified Italy

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Anita Garibaldi

The flag of Nice which was Italian territory when Garibaldi was born

Guns used during the Farroupilha Revolution

Giuseppe Garibaldi

The Church sign says "Ms. and Mrs. don't enter this church: With sleeves above the elbows, without a veil covering your hair, with transparent clothes. Thought: Who commands you this is the almighty God who lives in this temple"

Italo-Turkish War

The back of the museum

Italia?

The front yard of the museum

São Pedro Parish

Near São Pedro Parish

Cross in front of São Pedro Parish written "United in Christ"

In front of São Pedro Parish

Near São Pedro Parish

São Pedro Parish

City Hall of Garibaldi

Flag of Garibaldi

Flags of Rio Grande do Sul, Mercosul and Garibaldi

Mazzini Mansion

House at Manoel Peterlongo st.

Peterlongo Winery

Garibaldi's Quagmire Park

Near Garibaldi's Quagmire Park

Carlos Barbosa - Trip 2014

Carlos Barbosa is part of the Trip 2014 series

Our Specific Page About Carlos Barbosa

My Commentary: It was my first time in Carlos Barbosa and I liked a lot. The urban areas of the South of Brazil are very different from São Paulo City because they still maintain the traditional small town look and ambience. As the pictures below show, there are interesting places to visit there in Carlos Barbosa.