Santa Cecília (Santa Catarina)

municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Santa Cecília is in the Serrana of Santa Catarina.

Araucária in the countryside of Santa Cecília

Understand

Santa Cecília is a small town, culturally influenced by the rural ways of the farm, by the mountain caboclo, coming from the mixture of the Indian with the tropeiros and European immigrants. The people carry traces of the tropeira culture, with influences from São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul. 

It sits on the Santa Catarina plateau, with vast pine forests, in the middle of Serra Geral, being one of the municipalities with the coldest climate in all of Brazil.

Get in

Get around

See

The city has some tourist and historical attractions:

  • the tin gaucho located in Campo do Areão
  •  the Haus Granemann Museum, designed by Floresnal Granemann, in the center of the city, which tells a little about the history of the municipality and the region through objects kept by his family since the German immigration to Brazil in 1838 
  •  Praça Frederico Arbegaus, inaugurated in June 2013, the main leisure center in the municipality,
  • Praça da Igreja Matriz
  • Praça Francisco Lucas

Do

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Connect

Go next

Routes through Santa Cecília
Lages ← Curitibanos ←  S  N  → access to Canoinhas → Mafra


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