Tourist Attractions FENAKIWI FAIR AND INDUSTRY OF FARROUPILHA Held annually in the halls of the Park Cinqüentenário, located in the neighborhood of the same name. Using the kiwi as a main reason, the event shows the strength of our industrial council and its importance in setting regional, state and national levels. The companies sell their products directly to consumers. During the party also is a schedule of artistic presentations, in addition to being a good opportunity to savor the delights of the typical Italian food and products originating in the kiwi, introducing fruit in the Italian culture and how important economic alternative. The event receives about 120 thousand visitors from all over Brazil. ROMARIA TO OUR LADY OF CARAVAGGIO It happens on May 26 (holiday municipal) and corresponding end of this week. As history, the appearance of Our Lady of Caravaggio happened on May 26, 1432, at 17 hours, to a peasant named Joaneta in a lugarejo called Caravaggio, in northern Italy. The devotion was brought to Brazil by Italian colonists who settled in Farroupilha. Our Lady of Caravaggio patron of the council was established in 1956 by the then mayor Giacomo Valentine Luchese. The event brings together on the date and at the end of week, some 150 thousand pilgrims. Daily and especially on weekends, the site receives thousands of visitors. It has infrastructure of bars, restaurant and sale of religious objects. It is connected to the city through urban bus line. PARK MONUMENT TO ITALIAN CENTENÁRIO OF IMMIGRATION Located at RS 122, in New Milano, 4 district. Inaugurated in 1975, is a park with memorial garden inspired in the first three families of Italian immigrants who arrived in Farroupilha. In addition to the monument, there is a replica of Leon • Winging of San Marcos and commemorative plaques from various regions of Italy. The monument, with abstract forms, symbolizes the conquest of Sierra gaúcha by three families of Italian immigrants who arrived here in 1875. The monument is a work of Carlos Augusto Tenius and the project is of the architects Olmiro Gomes Pinto, Vera Maria Becker Lovato and urbanist Antônio Carlos Oliveira. PARK SANTA RITA Located at 3 Km of the city with tarmac entrance, the FR 42, in the neighborhood New Vicenza. The site has a large green area of 80 hectares, surrounded by an artificial lake with the island to which it has access through a bridge in a wooded area completely. The local account yet with infrastructure endowed with žara outdoors and playground. JUMP VENTOSO Heavy water in full forest, located in Line Müller, 3 district. The cascade is 52 meters high, falling on a cave with 200 meters long and 25 meters high. A cascade closes the cave with a curtain of water. Some scenes from the movie "The Quatrilho", the work of José Clemente Pozenato were recorded on the spot. PARK OF PINHEIROS Located in the central area of the city, with access by street Independence and other accesses, allows the realization of pleasant walks and hikes. It has an artificial lake, swimming pool and a good restaurant. Its total area is 22 hectares, of which 18 are of native forest.

The city of Farroupilha is a council of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul It is located at a latitude 29 º 13'30 "south and a longitude 51 ° 20'52" west, and at an altitude of 783 meters. Its estimated population in 2004 was 60,624 inhabitants. It has an area of 359.30 km ². Farroupilha is known for its sights. Among them are: The Cascade Ventoso of Salto, where the miniseries was recorded overall The Fifth of Infernos and movie The Quatrilho, the Shrine of Our Lady of Caravaggio, where the film Our Lady of Caravaggio was recorded, and the Park of Pines. There are many sights "hidden" that only a few tourist guides or natural families are aware of the site. In the year 2007 started up the construction of a new monument in the RST-453 that abrigará a statue of 10 meters of Our Lady of Caravaggio. The monument will be ready for the beginning of the year 2008. Farroupilha has a diversified economy being strong in diversoos points such as trade, where it features the networks of stores, furniture and appliances, met.al-mechanical industry and especially the knitting and agriculture, where they emphasize the wine and planting kiwi. In recent years Farroupilha has been consolidated as an important pole of retail networks, with major networks of stores. Farroupilha is the cradle of Shops Colombo addition to several other companies that trade has helped in the council. List of Mayors Bolivar Antonio Pasqual - 01/01/2005 to 31/12/2008 -- Bolivar Antonio Pasqual - 01/01/2001 to 31/12/2004 -- Oscar Fernando Fanton - 20/11/2000 to 31/12/2000 - took office with the death of Avelino Maggioni. Avelino Maggioni - 01/01/1997 to 16/11/2000 - He died in office. Paulo Dalsóchio - 01/01/93 to 31/12/96 -- Clóvis Zanfeliz - 01/01/89 to 31/12/92 -- John Wilson Cignachi - 01/02/1983 to 31/12/1988 -- Avelino Maggioni - 01/02/1977 to 31/01/1983 -- Clóvis Tartarotti - 01/02/1973 to 01/02/1977 -- Avelino Maggioni - 31/01/1969 to 31/01/1973 -- Arno Sunday Busetti - 01/01/1964 to 31/01/1969 -- John Grendene - 01/01/1960 to 31/12/1963 -- José Francischini - 06/04/1959 to 31/12/1959. Giácomo Valentine Luchese - 31/12/1955 to 06/04/1959 -- Jaime Romeu Rossler - 31/12/1951 to 31/12/1955 -- Angelo Bartelle - 11/07/1951 to 31/12/1951 elected vice mayor. Prav with the death of the holder by the end of the mandate. Joseph Baumgartner - 27/12/1947 to 07/07/1951 - First elected mayor. Party: PTB. He died in the performance of their duties. Alberto Olmiro Farinon - 26/04/1947 to 20/12/1947 - Mayor appointed. Party: PSD. Raul Cauduro - 30/12/1944 to 20/04/1947 - Mayor appointed. Pedroso Antonio Pinto - 18/12/1942 to 30/12/1944 - Mayor appointed. Nelson Thooy Schneider - 18/12/1940 to 23/09/1942 - Mayor appointed. Lieutenant Januário Dutra - 10/07/1940 to 17/12/1940 - Mayor appointed. Captain Lucas Eudoro de Oliveira - 17/12/1937 to 10/07/1940 - Mayor appointed. Armando Antonello - 11/12/1934 to 17/12/1937 - Mayor appointed. Participated the junta of emancipation of Farroupilha.

Farroupilha is the birthplace of Italian colonization in the state of Rio Grande do Sul The first families of immigrants landed in the town that later would call themselves New Milano (current district of Farroupilha) in May 1875, from the province of Milan, Italy. They arrived here the families of Stefano Crippa, Tomazo Radaelli and Luigi Sperafico. The structure of the municipality of Farroupilha began to take shape almost immediately to the installation of the first families of immigrants in New Milano. According to historical data, between 1885 and 1886, in Cologne Sertorina, which was partly within the current territory farroupilhense, between Line Palmeiro (Bento Gonçalves) and the 1 st and 2 nd Léguas (Caxias) Feijó Junior, owner of the land, installed a community inhabited by Italian immigrants, and Trentini trevisanos. The place where the neighborhood is currently New Vicenza, took the name of Vicenza line, and later in New Vicenza, parish of St. Vincent. The first residents were Italian immigrants already settlers in Cologne Conde D'I. Sensing the potential for development of the new community, those who had sold the immigrants and settled in the new area. How much the same distava of Caxias do Sul in Cologne Dona Isabel (Bento Gonçalves), had to create conditions for survival, emerged the first craftsmen, the home of commerce, the church, the blacksmith. The population, organized and full of desire, made the lugarejo soon prosper. There a priest and permanent installation of a school under the responsibility of the sisters of the congregation of San Carlos. There was still Sertorina roads in Cologne. It was used the road Caxias do Sul - Bento Gonçalves, which run along the line of the northern limit of the Colony Sertorina. Meanwhile New Milano, located outside Cologne Sertorina, located about 8 km to the south of New Vicenza, also progressed. It was 3 rd district of Caxias do Sul, had office, priest, church, sub-intendente in economic activity was the main agriculture. On June 1 from 1910 was opened to rail Montenegro - Caxias do Sul The railway line passed between the two localities, having been built a train station and the railroad warehouse where it is today central Farroupilha. Station railway in the central area of Farroupilha, inaugurated in 1910 The station was named "New Vicenza and around the same began a new core housing. Then came the road Julio de Castilhos that started in Sao Sebastiao do Caí, passed by New Milano, New Vicenza station, the original New Vicenza, followed by Antonio Prado, giving more strength to the expansion of new urban core, populated and economically draining New Milano and the other community, the first New Vicenza. In 1918 the 3 rd district of Caxias do Sul had its administrative headquarters transferred to the station Nova Vicenza. In 1927, the great development, New Vicenza was designated as 2 nd district of Caxias do Sul With the economic progress of the new region was inevitable that arose a movement of emancipation. Residents of the new cores wanted administrative and political autonomy. In 1934, a comment of 35 farroupilhenses, led by Angelo Antonello representing the communities of New Vicenza, New Milano, Jansen and Vila Nova Sardinia, delivered a petition to then interventor federal Jose Antonio Flores da Cunha. The municipality of Farroupilha was created through the 5779 state decree of December 11, 1934. The name is in honor of the centennial of the Revolution Farroupilha, celebrated in the following year.