Visiting Santa Catarina is more than just a trip-it's pure satisfaction! The State offers surprising diversity of geographical and cultural features all year round for all tastes and age groups.  

Over 500 beaches are scattered along 350 miles of a seemingly hand-carved coast. Inland, the scenery varies between rural landscapes, progressive urban centers, canyons, sinuous valleys, rivers and hundreds of waterfalls hidden within Brazil’s best preserved Atlantic Forest. In the mountains, it gets cold Santa Catarina is the only Brazilian state where it snows every year.

There is also great cultural variety. Immigrants of many different nationalities have formed the people of Santa Catarina—Portuguese, Africans, Indians, Italians, Ukrainians, Polish, Tyrolese. Their cultural inheritance can be seen in the architecture, gastronomy, folklore, religion, in the color of the clothes, in the artistic expressions, and in the festivals that celebrate cultural traditions, especially the Oktoberfest and the other October festivals.
The people are hospitable and the State is synonymous with excellence. Social indicators and quality of life indexes are among the best in Brazil, comparable to those registered in developed countries.

The tourism in Santa Catarina mobilizes over 8 million people annually—this number includes foreign visitors, Brazilians from other states, and Santa Catarina residents traveling within the State. The Segments and Tourist Products are divided in Ecotourism and Extreme Sports (Surf, windsurfing, fishing, sandbord, tree canopy walking, etc), Religious Tourism, Thermo-mineral Resorts (Contestado Valley- circuit of thermal waters, etc), Rural Tourism (Coast beaches, activities in the mountains by the sea-shore, ecotourism, thermal water resorts, whale watching, hotel farms on the Catarinense Mountains, etc), Santa Catarina's Festivals, Historical Heritage (Portuguese, Germany and Italy Architecture, Rupestrian Art), Parks, Senior Citizens, Gastronomy (Follows the colonization saga. Culinary at the coast, is seafood-based, typical Italian catinas in all regions, Events and Business (Thirteen such Bureaus already exist in the State, Shopping Tourism (Products made in Santa Catarina are known for their quality, exported to 190 countries. The shopping circuit offers various options, either wholesale or retail. The most popular items are clothing articles, textiles and shoes, and decorative items. 

 

                10 Reasons For Visiting Santa Catarina

Santa Catarina Is a Very Good Deal, Tourism and Leisure All Year Round, Quality of Life, Safety, Fine Roads, Airports and Ports, Cultural Richness and Historical Heritage, Strong Tourist Structure, Gastronomy,  Events Tourism and Expanding Businesses, Integrated Itineraries and Tourist Products.

The best business is the kind you make you are certain of the quality of the product or service. By electing Santa Catarina as their destination, travellers know that they will find excellence. Besides vocation and potential, tourism in Santa Catarina has professionalism, a permanent search for qualification and hard work.

Known as the Brazilian Europe, for its landscapes, the physical characteristics of its cities and its people, and also for the snow, Santa Catarina boasts indicators in sectors that directly affect tourism, such as infrastructure, quality of life, safety, health, education, qualification of personnel, hospitality, services. The State is the right destination for a trip free of unpleasant surprises. Offering Santa Catarina is offering good business--for the seller and for the buyer.

        

 

    A Lovely state, full of culture and beautiful scenery.