Serra Gaúcha's mountain range
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Gaucha´s mountain range

A region which calls for its beauty, wines and love for work. Makes part of this amount, the cities of Bento Gonçalves, Garibaldi, Farroupilha, Caxias, Flores da Cunha, Ipê, Vacaria, Gramado, Canela, Veranópolis, Cotiporã and others. They have the biggests wines industries of Brazil, and they are also the greatests producers, in the world.

Bento Gonçalves, a city with 100 thousand inhabitants, italian colonization (1875), is, today, one of the Rio Grande do Sul´s main cities, and owner of the title of Brazilian Capital of the wine and grape.

With an excellent chain of hotels of 2 thousand rooms, it offers to the visitors since rustic and charming cabans in the rural zone, to excellents hotels with superior category, serving everybody´s tastes and needs.

The climate is excellent to the wine growing region. The wines made in this region are exceptional, tons of them exported and rewarded around the world.

All over the places it is possible to feel the Italian marks and love for the earth. This scenary is full of beauty. Inside the city we have a peacefull place, fresh air, and the green of the vine give beautiful walks, where people can enjoy good wines and colonial products. Both routes, the wine´s industry are always with the doors open, offering foods to be tasted, retail trade and a little bit of history of the region.


Other walks are also unforgetable: the trip on the “Maria-Fumaça”, steam train which conects the cities of Bento Gonçalves, Garibaldi and Carlos Barbosa are always fun, with music, beautiful scenary and joy, on its 23 kilometers. The visit to the Theme Park Italian Era offers a trip on the time, telling the real story of a couple of Italian immigrants, when they arrived in Brazil. Two thousand of built area where actors, in a sound and light show, lead the visitors back to the past.