Joinville tourist information
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Tradition and development are words of order in Joinville. This city that was born and grew today with européias immigrations is the greater of the state of Santa Catarina. Beyond the scenes that remember Germany - Joinville until is known as the ' city of the flowers ' -, the place attracts many tourists due to the some fairs and events that host. E, currently, has conquered international fame with its Festival of Dance.
The germanic architecture of centuries XVIII and XIX continues present in some façades of Joinville, as in the railroad station (street Ribeiro Milk) and in the store Salfer and Koerich (both in the esquina of streets 15 of November and the Prince).
Soon in the entrance of the city you already have a sample of that she goes to find. There tel is the Municipal Market (: 47/ 422-8922), that it has until a wind mill. When you it will be to visit it, uses to advantage to make ones comprinhas. The place is open of 2ª 6ª of 7h to 19h, and Saturdays of 7h to 13h.
A bit more of the past of the city it can be seen and be discovered in the National Museum of the Settling and Immigration . In the palace where if it points out, that was constructed to be the house of just-married European princes, still has furniture of the time. In it it has objects of that if they had ventured to cross the ocean in search of a new life. The museum is open of terça the sunday, of 9h to 17h30min. Tel: 47/ 433-3736.
But, well before this time, the place already had other inhabitants. In the current city of Joinville the sambaquianos, the first inhabitants of the catarinense coast lived.
In the Archaeological Museum of the Sabaqui , the guides will count some theories to it on the life of these indians. Some parts of them have up to 4800 years! It reserves one day to visit the museum.
Joinville today is a famous city business-oriented. Only as example, in they are great catarinenses industries as the Consul, Tiger, Sulfabril, Nielson etc. But one of the preferred strolls of the visitors is for the Pretty Road , practically in the agricultural area of the city. E the legal one is that the colonists who live to the long one of it make question to open its houses to the tourists.
The place is ones 25 distant km of the center , but the appearance of extensive green fields with frozen water rivers compensates the trip. The inhabitants of the farms show as they cultivate the land and as it is the production of milk, breads and candies.
It tries flavorful ' petit-fours ' of Traudi Owner, made of buttered up coconut, fubá, chocolate and peanut.
Already who prefers something more ' strong ', visits the property of Mr. Willy. It manufactures cachaça . The process the same has more than a century, but the taste of branquinha is one of the preferred ones of who understands of the subject.
Many colonists, for being descending of immigrants, say German, English, Frenchman, Pole and/or Russian.
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