Gramado has attractions for everyone throughout the year. Families can enjoy their moments together in museums, such as the Hollywood Dream Car, the Medieval Museum, the Wax Museum or Fragram, the Perfume Museum. The theme parks will attract children, who are enchanted by the Minimundo, Mundo Encantado, Gramadozoo, Germany Enchanted and Santa Claus Village. Couples can have romantic moments on the Pedal Pedal Tour on Black Lake and a hike in Tomasini Park. Everyone has fun in Snowland, a differentiated space. To recharge, savor the delicious chocolates of the region and taste the local cuisine in the various restaurants of the city center, which also deserves a quiet walk to enjoy the architecture and beauty of the city gardens.
Belvedere – Quilombo Valley
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A part of the beauty of the mountain region of Rio Grande do Sul can be observed in the Quilombo Valley, sighted of the Belvedere.
Located on Avenida das Hortênsias, which leads to the nearby Canela, the beautiful landscape of the Quilombo Valley can be seen from the Belvedere, with 850 meters of altitude.
The Valley shows the beauty of the native forest with many pine trees, in the undulating relief of Serra Gaúcha, which integrates perfectly with the charming cities of the region.
Access is free and there is a recoil for parking on the Avenue.
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Palace of Festivals – Cine Ambassador
The beautiful cinema hosts the Gramado Film Festival, which every year distributes the Kikitos with great glamour and emotion.
The preserved Cine Ambassador, in the center of Gramado, receives every year, on six days of August, the largest party in Brazilian cinema. The streets with exquisite decor are covered by the red carpet to receive celebrities and participants of the Gramado Film Festival.
The Palace of Festivals becomes the headquarters for the exhibition of Brazilian and Latin American films that compete for the award, the statuette ‘Kikito’, which represents the ‘God of Bom Humor’. There are two categories: ‘Brazilian productions’ and ‘Latin American, Portuguese and Spanish Films’.
In the end, everyone wins with the release of short films and films of medium and feature films, of established artists from all over the world.
the Church of St Peter
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One of the postcards of the city, the beautiful St. Peter’s Mother Church displays the sacred history in its stained glass windows and monuments to the apostles.
The original wooden chapel had its construction started in 1917 and only 8 years later it was completed.
Twenty-five years later, the capelinha becomes the São Pedro Mother Church. Built in basaltic stone, it was inaugurated in 1942, showing the religiosity of the colonizers of the city of Gramado.
The Church houses sacred art and shows in her stained glass windows the passages of the life of the Apostle Peter alongside Jesus Christ. On the outside, in the front courtyard, is the monument to the apostles, with life-size sculptures, which help to compose the facade of the Church, whose tower stands out with 46 meters high.
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Church of the Clock
From the top of the hill, surrounded by hydrangeas in the summer, the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil is a stop point in Gramado.
Inaugurated in 1961, the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB) is dedicated to the Apostle Paul, who was a follower of Christ.
The Church is built in simple strokes, but from the top of the hill draws attention, as it can be seen from various points of the city. The tower clock is part of the day-to-day Gramado.
It is worth climbing the hill to see the city from above, with beautiful view, which adorns itself even more in the summer, when the hydrangeas of the courtyard are flowering. At this time, seen below, it seems that the church was built on the flowers.
Center Center
The center of Gramado is the most charming and busiest point of the city. Stage of the Film Festival and Christmas parties has buildings with striking architecture and vast commerce.
Covered Street
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Connecting Avenida Bordes de Medeiros to Rua Garibaldi, Rua Madre Verônica is known as Rua Coberta and is opposite the Palace of the Festivals. It is the option of shopping and gastronomy, especially on rainy days. At parties, it is the scene of performances and musicals.
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the Major Nicoletti Square
With the name of the first subintendent, Major Nicoletti, responsible for the location of Gramado, the square has been the nucleus of the central region since 1913. It was inaugurated in 1936 and restored in 2003, and next to the São Pedro Mother Church and the Palace of Festivals is the main point and reference of the city.
The Flags Rótula
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A tribute to the Brazilian states and with a replica of the Kikito award, the Film Festival, Rótula das Bandeiras is in Leopoldo Rosenfeldt Square and is a reference point for displacements around the city.
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Municipal Center of Culture
In a beautiful typical construction, next to Lake Joaquina Rita Bier, the Municipal Center of Culture houses the Municipal Museum Professor Hugo Daros and the Museum of Arts, as well as classrooms for courses, theatrical, artistic and literary workshops.
Centre of Culture II
In another space of the city, the Center is the headquarters of the Municipal Library Ciro Martins, which has a special children’s and youth room, and the Department of Education, with a multipurpose room that receives gymnastics and capoeira, prayer group, among other audiences.
the City Hall
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The building of the City Hall with typical architecture is the postcard of Gramado. At the top of the façade is the coat of arms of the municipality carved in polychrome wood and finish in lambrequins, rescuing the local ethnicities.
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Knorr Park – Santa Claus Village and Green Land
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Preserving history and nature and delighting visitors: so the Knorr Park is home to Santa’s Village and the Green Land with an incredible view of the region.
At the top of Rua Bela Vista, the name of the location already indicates: the Knorr Park, created in 1940 by Oscar Knorr, offers a beautiful view of the Quilombo Valley, which represents well the relief and nature of the Serra Gaúcha.
In the midst of beautiful gardens, the Park houses the Santa Claus Village, a thematic space that will delight children with the Tree of Desires, the Bears’ Cottage, the Toy Factory and the Elf Garden. The first house in the region in Bavarian style, from 1940, is today the Santa Claus House, well preserved and all decorated with Christmas motifs. Just reach the good old man and place your order.
The most recent attraction of the Park is the Green Land, ecological preservation area of the park, which brings a differentiated space with a lake of therapeutic mud for adults and attractions for children, with suspended paths between native trees and a bridge over a lake.
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Lake Joaquina Rita Bier
Lake Joaquina Rita Bier is a beautiful artificial lake and stage of the show Nativitaten, an open-air Christmas opera.
Planned and built hand-hand with rudimentary tools by Leopoldo Rosenfeldt, who is considered the pioneer of Gramado tourism, the lake and its surrounding park has an area of 17,000 m2, surrounded by forest with araucalars, some over 70 years old.
The lake is in a residential and hotel district of the city, being widely used by residents for daily walks.
In the period of the Christmas parties, since 2001, the Joaquina Rita Bier Lake is the stage of the show Nativitaten, which features lyrical singers in an open air opera. Strategically positioned on ferries and the islet located in the middle of the lake, the 100 artists sing the origin of Christmas amid fire flames, water jets, colored laser beams and fireworks, which thrill and delight the audience every year.
the Black Lake
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The trees imported from the Black Forest in Germany still decoy the shores of the pleasant Black Lake, in the center of Gramado.
A fire in 1942 destroyed all native forest of the then-so-called Valley of Good Retreat. In 1953, Leopoldo Rosenfeldt, who was the first resident of the city to glimpse potential in Gramado, began the construction of a lake and decorated its banks with hydrangeas, azaleias, lom trees and cypress trees that were imported from the Black Forest in Germany, hence the origin of the name Black Lake.
The lake is deep and dark green, which makes reflect the vegetation in the waters, leaving the scenery even more beautiful for walks in its surroundings or pedal boat trips, to admire the Black Lake up close.
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Mini world
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Miniatures of real architectural works distributed in an outdoor space. It seems like child’s play that enchants all ages.
It all started when Otto H?ppner, a German immigrant, built a space next to the family hotel with a dollhouse for his granddaughter and sheries. It was the year 1958, and from there he created the Minimundo, a theme park where everything is 24 times smaller than the real world.
Already in the fourth generation of the H?ppner family, the park continues to grow with the ‘toys’ of adults that are manufactured in an artisanal way, following faithfully the corresponding real projects.
The Minimundo has more than 140 buildings, from European castles, railway stations, churches, to the Ipiranga Museum of São Paulo, which are ‘inhabited’ by more than 2,500 mini people. A dream of child realized in a single space, worthy of grandfather’s upbringing.
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The Enchanted World
Miniatures in movement of sawmills, winery, mill and joinery: know the life of the colonizers of the Serra Gaúcha in the Enchanted World.
Inaugurated in 2003, the Enchanted World tells the story of Gramado through moving miniatures. Moacir Foss, the creator of the theme park, has been working since 1999 on the pieces arranged in 10 different scenarios.
The scenarios represent waterfalls, mountain ranges, wineries, mills, woodworking, typical Italian and German houses and the replica of Maria Fumaça that connected Serra Gaúcha to Porto Alegre. Currently, it also has the current miniature of Gramado and region, with the churches, porticos of the city, Palace of Festivals, Itaimbezinho Canyon and Caracol Cascata.
A walk that enchants children and adults.
Fragram – Perfume Museum
Fragram’s factory and shop also houses the Perfume Museum, an exquisite tribute to the aromas that make all the difference in everyday life.
Fragram is a factory and store of fragrances and perfumes of Gramado, with a wide line of colonies, odorizers of environments and some cosmetics.
The store, as a way to preserve the rich history of perfume, created the first Perfumery Museum in Brazil, in a rustic and exquisite environment.
At the entrance, it is possible to know Classics of the World Perfumery, with acerva of about 450 bottles, such as the legendary Violeta di Parma, a fragrance created especially for Mrs. Marie Louise, the second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
During the tour it is possible to discover some curiosities, such as the meaning of the word perfume, the history of aromas and learn some concepts and terms used. In the main room, there is the presentation of the main techniques of extraction of essences, the raw materials used and their geographical locations. There is also the area of physiology of the sense of smell, with psychological tests that guide the choice of perfume, according to the personality so as not to err more in the purchase.
The Prawer Chocolates
A must stop in Gramado is to taste the delicious local chocolate. Prawer has a tradition and quality.
In 1974, Jayme Prawer consolidated his dream of living in Gramado and making the city the headquarters of its chocolate factory, the first artisanal chocolate factory in Brazil.
Thus, for 37 years, Chocolates Prawer has maintained tradition and quality of its handmade products, with selected ingredients, which result in bars, drágeas, chocolate for fondue and powder, with more than 150 flavors and forms.
Impossible to resist the visit to the factory and the store, taking home one of the flavors of Serra Gaúcha.
Hollywood Dream Cars – Museum of Classic Cars
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A museum of classic automobiles that displays in Gramado the most beautiful and original vehicles of Hollywood’s golden years: this is the Hollywood Dream Cars.
The Hollywood Dream Cars is a museum of ancient classic automobiles, opened in 1997, which has since attracted visitors from various parts of the world to check out its collection.
Considered the most beautiful exhibition of old cars in Brazil, the museum counts, in an area of 1,000 m2, with a collection of rarities, such as the cadillacs, the Ford Victória 1956 convertible, a Buick 1951, a Pontiac 1951 and the Ford model A year 1929, which brings memories and excites those who lived in the golden age of these vehicles.
The collection also features 15 Harley-Davidson motorcycles, among them one from 1964 and one from the road police, all restored according to the original standards.
Super Cars
Do you dream of driving a Ferrari or a Lamborghini? Now you can in Super Cars.
Super Cars has the proposal to fulfill the desire of many car lovers: to drive or ride in a Ferrari F360 F1, Camaro SS, Dodge, Lamborghini or the Shelby Cobra relic.
Two floors with 2,400 m2 exhibit more than 30 supercars to get to know up close. In addition, the space offers games and simulators, thematic bar and official product store.
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Harley Motor Show – Motorcycle Museum
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Dedicated to lovers of the lifestyle and motorcycles of Harley-Davidsons, the Harley Motor Show seduces visitors.
The Harley Motor Show is the first thematic space in Latin America dedicated to lovers of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, which is practically a lifestyle.
The museum collection has more than 20 motorcycles in an area of 1 thousand m2. Restored old models of almost a century share a place with modern and current bikes, especially those used in the film ‘Easy Rider’, a classic from 1969, and Night Road motorcycle, designed in partnership with Porsche. True treasures for their connoisseurs.
From Wednesday to Saturday, the space works as a bar open to the public, with a more than special decoration.
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Dreamland- Wax Museum
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Queen Elizabeth II, Madonna, Saints Dumont, Gisele Bundchen, Neymar and Albert Einstein together? Only in the Dreamland.
The Dreamland, opened in 2009, is the first wax museum to feature movie idols, pop culture and celebrities in a unique space in Latin America. More than 50 well-known figures are distributed in 18 thematic scenarios, making you face-to-face with Pope John Paul II, Ayrton Senna, Freddy Krueger, Charlie Chaplin and Elvis Presley. Must-see tour for those who like the famous stars and stars.
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Museum Lawn – Minerals and Precious Stones
The natural art of hundreds of years is on display in the Gramado Museum, with beautiful types of minerals and precious stones.
The Gramado Museum was inaugurated in 2010 with the objective of exhibiting the stones and rocks extracted in Rio Grande do Sul that were taken to museums around the world. It has an exhibition of minerals extracted in Brazil and on other continents, in addition to the collection of more than 500 semi-precious stones, such as amethysts, agates, opals and geodes found in Rio Grande do Sul and other national and international localities.
The stones are considered as a source of energy, protection, inspiration, or only beautiful pieces of decoration, and in the visit, the tourist knows the history of the formation and transformation of the raw stones into cut yolks.
The museum houses in annex a shop with raw or cut pieces, rocks, bird statues, cup holders, among other items. The ticket, at the end of the tour, becomes a bonus for shopping. It’s worth the souvenir.
Medieval Museum – Saint George Castle
The tour of the Medieval Museum is a return to the middle age, a mandatory stop for every visitor who likes the season.
The dream of Gilberto Guzenski is being realized. Since 1967, the owner of the Medieval Museum – Saint George Castle has been dedicated to heraldry, which is the science and art of describing the coats of arms or shields.
When drawing a coat of arms is called a brasonar and in the museum collection, the visitor will find several coats of arms of families known. In addition, there are cutlery, weapons, elmos, maps and beautiful medieval paintings.
Parque Tomasini
Leisure, adventure and rest next to nature: this is what Tomasini Park offers, a complex of attractions.
Created in 2012, Tomasini Park is a tourist complex that integrates tours, knowledge and gastronomy.
In the midst of a lot of forest, Lake Encantado invites the visitor to rest on its banks, or take a pedal boat trip. The Gardener runs through the park and if you prefer you can go on horseback. Paint Ball and Kartódromo are options for those who want more bustle and sport fishing for those who want tranquility. The typical restaurant Carazal recharges the energies.
As a main attraction is A Mina, with 80 meters of underground tunnels, that reconse a mine of true gemstones, with mined waterfalls and museum with more than 850 stones exposed. At the end of the route, there is a jewelry and decorations store.
With a large structure, the Tomasini Park is an option for a day of rest.
Gramadozoo
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Animal well-being and environmental conservation, with a magnificent view of the valleys of Gramado. Gramadozoo is a new entertainment experience.
Inaugurated in 2008, Gramadozoo brings a new concept to the zoo segment. Replacing traditional railings and cages, huge armored glasses leave visitors observing the more than 1,500 animals in their habitat, which is reproduced faithfully for each species.
A novelty is the visitation in the evening period (which should be scheduled), allowing a unique experience of observation of animals with nocturnal habits.
The 1,200-meter course of the zoo has illustrative plaques and assistance from guides for environmental education of visitors.
The Gramadozoo restaurant has the shape of indigenous hollow and unsewn the beautiful scenery of mountains and local vegetation. The park has a product store that reverses part of the amount collected for research and conservation of endangered species.
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the Gaúcho Park
The culture of Rio Grande do Sul is rescued in Parque Gaúcho: good barbarity!
The Gaúcho Park was created in 2009 and is a space destined to the traditions of Rio Grande do Sul, honoring the beautiful culture of southern Brazil. The space has an area of 120 thousand m2, with the Memorial Gaucho, thematic restaurant, arena of shows and donates, child’s shed, as well as organic garden and herbarium. Another attraction opened in 2012 is the City of Gauchos, which presents the main types of housing in the interior of the pampa in the 18th century.
The exhibition of the Gaúcho Memorial has a collection of old objects used in the field read and models that reproduce machines and equipment preserved throughout the history of the State. Creole horses, faithful companions of the man of the field, are presented and handled in the dome arena. And in the external area, the park has an organic garden and a herbarium, which supplies the restaurant, which serves Campeiro Lunch on weekends, with a menu of roasted meats in the parrilla, carriage rice and caramelada pumpkin, typical dishes on the wood stove, in addition to the Café Gaúcho, with warm bread, the sweet of Uruguayan milk and flower honey.
Le Jardin Parque lavender
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The aroma of lavender accompanies the entire tour of the beautiful Le Jardin, the Lavender Park.
Le Jardin is the first lavender park in Brazil. Created in 2010, it was inspired by the lavender parks of Europe and the USA.
The park has a path in the middle of a large and beautiful garden, which presents several types of lavender, an aromatic plant whose essential oil is widely used for the production of cosmetics, cleaning products and perfumes.
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Snowland .
Snow all year round for fun and sports practice: Snowland offers attractions for all ages.
Snowland opened in 2010 and is the first indoor artificial snow park in the Americas, inspired by the covered and royal snow parks of countries such as England, the Netherlands, Germany and South Korea.
The adventure through the park begins in the charming alpine-style village, located at the foot of a snow mountain. Throughout the visit there are more than 30 attractions, the main ones being: snow sports, such as skiing, snowboarding and airboarding, and the glacial with mechatronic animals, which represent the fauna of more than 10,000 years, a trip to the prehistoric era. The venue also has restaurants, cafes and shops.
Germany Enchanted
Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, Little John and Mary and Cinderella: from the imagination of children directly to the park Germany Enchanted.
Created in 2009, the Germany Enchanted park was inspired by the tales of the Brothers Grimm, whose characters populated the imaginary and continue to enchant children and adults from all over the world.
The park depicts with scenery, architecture and small sculptures the stories of Rapunzel, Little Riding Hood, Little John and Mary, Cinderella, among others, in Germany idealized by the Brothers Grimm. There is a 20-meter-high tower where Rapunzel awaits its prince charming, with a beautiful view of the Black Lake.
At the end of the tour, enjoy imported beer and typical German dishes in Biergarten, a space for fraternization, or homemade biscuits and waffles with wild fruit cover on Blumen Kaffee, a small souvenir shop.
Agrotourism
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Knowing the rural properties typical of the colonizers of the region: agrotourism offers beautiful landscapes, a lot of history and tasty delicacies.
From the Communications Square leaves the Little Princess, a former bus from 1958 restored for tours in the region. There are three agrotours options: The Quatrilho; Colonial Roots and Diving in the Valley.
The Quatrilho: explore a typical German family property and enjoy the delicious colonial coffee, with cucas, jams, homemade breads and typical sausages of settlers.
Colonial Roots: the tour follows to the first houses built by the settlers, which offer tasting of wines, breads, cheeses and homemade salames.
Diving in the Valley: the tour runs through the interior of the Quilombo Valley, with total integration the native forest, with many waterfalls and beautiful natural viewpoints.
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the Ravanello Winery
Serra Gaúcha is known for the good wines: enjoy and taste some at the Ravanello Winery.
The Avavanello Wine has its history started in 2005, when Normélio Ravanello and his wife Rosa Maria modified the property acquired in 1987 to become a winery. In February 2010, there was the first winemaking in the place, with the grapes harvested in the 2.5 hectares of vineyards.
Installed in an area of 1,300 m2, the winery has modern equipment with high technology for producing high quality wines. After the tour, pass the Gourmet space to taste the local products, such as red wines and the exquisite sparkling wine.
Walk of Gardener
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Pass through all the sights with comfort and tranquility: the gardener tour is a great option for those who are not by car.
The old restored bus is today the Jardineira, which offers a tour of 16 km, with stops in the main urban tourist spots of Gramado, such as the Belvedere of the Quilombo Valley and the Black Lake, being a great option for those who have little time and are without vehicle.
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House of the Colony
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Baves, cucas, cakes, sweets, jellies. All this you will find in the House of the Colono, typical and regional flavor.
Agrotourism has been gaining prominence in recent years. However, if you are not in time to go to the interior of the city, in the countryside, to buy and enjoy the regional flavors, Casa do Colono offers all the typical products produced in the city center, right next to the Bus Station, not to leave without trying.
Gramado Crystals
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The crystals produced in an artisanal way follow the Venetian technique and became famous in Gramado. It’s worth knowing.
Cristais de Gramado, founded in 2002, is the only factory in Rio Grande do Sul, which uses the millennia-old Italian technique di murano, in Venice, for the artisanal production of pieces such as vases, dishes and decoration. In this technique, the crystal is molded through blowing and manual movements that result in unique colors and design.
During the tour to the factory, visitors know the process of producing the crystal parts. In the end, the store is attractive for those who like this craft.
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