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Once
you know Canela, you can fell a new emotion. The City smells the woods and the
lovely
tastes from its unforgettable landscapes, enchanting the visitors with a
delicious sound and vision poetry that shows a unique beauty and full of
surprises. A place where you can find peace all over the year; during summer,
the city is full of flowers and opens the water season with several options of
ecological and adventure sports; in the winter season, the beauty of the snow
and the refined European hospitality invites us to taste cheese and wine,
without forgetting the beauty of the mountains.
This place has
become a reference in ecotourism, offering activities in the nature. Besides the
traditional walking tour and horse riding, typical of this region of the
country, it also offers radical sports with various options like rafting,
mountain bike, rappel, canyoning, Tyrolese and rope-swing.
Among all the
surprises shown to enjoy the most demanding tourists, Canela offers a perfect
link between the human being and Mother Nature. Its exotic landscapes are
perfectly adapted to the weather that goes up to 23°C in the summer and down to
-2,7°C during the winter. The cold in the winter covers all city with snow
performing amazing images. The city challenges you to visit its richness and to
solve the mysteries of its fabulous geography.
The urban part
of the city is of colonial architecture that was developed, at the beginning,
through the wood extraction and later with the weaving and leather articles.
That is how the city was known till the 50’ when it emancipated from Taquara and
changed it’s focus to improve the ecological tourism and to make the region one
of the most important national script, together with it’s neighbor, Gramado.
The old
“Tropeiros” tells the origin of its name came from the leafy tree that left its
shadow over them, who stopped by to rest from the long journey. It worth while
to stop at this place to enjoy this European site in the Brazilian land. |