Characteristics the capital of the State is modern and cosmopolita, where new and the old one coexists harmoniously, it wants in the agitated health-resorts, wants in the pacatas fishing villages. It more than has 100 beaches, innumerable parks, natural reserves, squares, lagoons, dunes, History... Date of foundation - 23 of March of 1726. Festive date - 23 of March (anniversary of the city). Main economic activities - Tourism and commerce. Population - 342,000 inhabitants. Settling - Açoriana. Main etnias - Açoriana, but people of the most diverse parts of Brazil and the world are attracted by the charm and exuberância of beaches and the nature of Florianópolis. Localization - Coastal. Area - the city has 436,5km2, being 424,4km2 in the Island and 12,1km2 in the Continent. Climate - Tempered, with average temperature between 20ºC and 30ºC. Altitude - 25m above of the level of the sea. Next Cities - They are Jose, Biguaçu, Palhoça, Camboriú Health-resort, Celso Governor Branches, Garopaba.
Tourism In Florianópolis the natural wealth are multiplied, beautiful lagoons, mounts, fens, dunes, islands, landscapes, aromas, colors... Its 100 white and clean sand beaches - however rustic and wild, however disputed and agitated - are true redoubts of golden people. Modern and cosmopolita, the unusual urban configuration of the Island and the diversity of its landscape prove that it is possible to conciliate all the resources of a great city with the quality of life that is only found in the Interior. Still today, in quarters as Brook of the Island and Saint Antonio of Lisbon, beyond all the area of the center, marks of the açoriana settling are preserved in the houses to the side of the sidewalk, in the churches, the museums, ruelas narrow and the skill of being and living of the people that inhabit the city. They are obligator visits the mirante Da Ponte Hercílio Light, one of the biggest pênseis bridges of the world, initiated in 1922 and inaugurated in 1926; the mirante of the Mount Da Cruz, in the center, of where if it can see great part of the Island and the Continent, and the mirante of the Lagoon, that allows a panoramic vision of the Lagoon of the Conceição, some beaches and dunes of the Joaquina. Also escuna in trapiche of the Side-sea North or in Canasvieiras is a good program to catch one and to pass the day in the sea, knowing the islands in return of the city, the ortalezas, observing the dolphins and the beautiful landscapes and delighting themselves in the typical restaurants... Beaches - To the north they are the health-resorts most sophisticated, with excellent tourist infrastructure and of leisure. There they are the beaches of Canasvieiras, preferred place of the foreigners; Jurerê, that counts on excellent infrastructure of hotels, restaurants and a nocturnal life sufficiently put into motion; Tip of the Sugar canes; Brave, of thick sea with strong waves, ideals for the practical one of surf; English; Lagoinha; Waterfall of the Good Jesus; Daniela; Sambaqui, Cacupé and Santo Antonio of Lisbon. The east the biggest littoral attractions are concentrated, as the Lagoon of the Conceição, sung in verse and chat for diverse poets and celebrity for its tenants. There excellent restaurants and bars exist, and the nocturnal life is put into motion the year all. It visits the Beach of the Joaquina, Brazilian temple of surf and palco of world-wide championships of first level; the immense dunes, that if extend until the sea; the Soft Beach, another paradise of the surfistas and redoubt of the golden youth of the Island, and the Beach of the Oil bottle, used for the practical one of the nudismo. 20km of the center has advanced, distant, is the Bar of the Lagoon, that concentrates the biggest fishing colony of the Island of Santa Catarina. Later they come Moçambique, the greater of all, and Santinho. In the coast south they are the beaches most rustic, where if they conserve almost unbroken the fauna and the flora. The Beach of the Logwood, option for surf are examples; the Mount of the Rocks, agitated sea and weighed, with a costão that advance on the sea, and the Scaffolding, known for the amount of typical restaurants and where the fishing rent whaleboats for strolls until the Island of the Logwood. Separate for a small accessible river and the foot is only the Beach of the Matadeiro, excellent place for the practical one of surf. In the south extremity they are Quagmire of the South, that shelters one of the most authentic fishing colonies of the Island; the Beach of the Solitude, calm and transparent waters; the Caieira of the Bar of the South, a succession of small beaches of calm and clean sea, with hot waters; the Tapera and the Brook of the Island, older district of capital and one of the typical places of Florianópolis. For who it likes adventure, valley walked of 3 hours until the Beach of the Lagoinha it East, authentic sanctuary of nature preserved, or until Been shipwrecked, in the south extremity of the Island, with its wild sea and cold waters, a good option for fishes submarine. Historic site - the city has centennial churches, as the Cathedral Metropolitan, who shelters in its interior a sculpture of Jose and Maria in escape for grooving Egypt for the tirolês artist Demetz, and the Church of Ours Lady of the Lagoon of the Conceição, example of the architecture brought for the Portuguese, whose bell was donated by emperor Dom Peter II also Visits the Church of the Order Third of San Francisco of the Penance, in the center of the city; of Ours the Lady of the Rosary; of San Francisco de Paula, constructed in 1830, in açoriano style, and of Ours the Lady of the Necessities, in Saint Antonio of Lisbon, historical monuments and certifications of the faith and the religiosidade of ilhéu it. She gives special attention to the ortalezas: Santa Cruz, Is Jose of the Thick Tip, Santana, Cortaleza of Ours Lady of the Conceição, Saint Antonio and Anhatomirim. Culture - In diverse museums, Florianópolis rescues local history and translates day-by-day of the peoples who had inhabited the Island to the long one of the times. It visits the Museum Cruz and Souza especially, in the center of the city, the Plaza of Customs and Square XV - one gives credit that that one that gives four returns in the centennial figueira of the center of the square will find its great love. Schmidt takes a walk for the calçadão of Philip, takes a coffee in the Senadinho, goes to the House Vítor Meirelles... The Integrated Center of Culture congregates spaces and equipment for theater, vernissages and cinema, and its main audience has capacity for 1.000 people. He enters the great attractions of the city is the artesanato, with the one income-of-bilro, net-of-he fishes it and the sculptures in format of witches. In the quarters oldest he can yourself be found true icons of the açoriano folklore, as Boi-de-Mamão, Pau-de-Fita, Cacumbi or Ticumbi, Mousehole, Tender of Kings and Pão-por-Deus. Also the spells, the crendices are common and superstitions. In the imaginary one it ilhéu, witches, fairies, gnomos and duendes mixes the supernatural one to the things of the land. Tourist infrastructure - Florianópolis counts on excellent tourist infrastructure. It has hotels of superior category, charmosas put to the side-sea, executive hotels and houses of summering. In all the beaches, in the center or the quarters, are multiplied the restaurants with typical food or international kitchen. It has cultural cinemas, theaters, centers and a good net of commerce and services.
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