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O Thermas dos Laranjais é um dos maiores complexos de águas quentes naturais do Brasil e está localizado no norte do Estado de São Paulo, a 420 kilometros da capital.
Suas principais atrações são a piscina de ondas cercada de areia branca e coqueiros, o rio lento, com corredeira de 360 m de extensão, toboáguas gigantes com pista de 80 m, hidrobalanço, tirolesa, guerra com canhões d´água, playground infantil, poços, ôfuros e cascatas de águas quentes naturais, tudo cercado de muito verde.
Além das atrações aquáticas o Thermas dos Laranjais oferece diversas opções de lazer fora da água, como pista de caminhada, bosques, quadras poliesportivas, salão de jogos, loja de conveniência e muito mais.
Isso sem falar nos restaurantes, bares e lanchonetes proporcionando todo conforto para você e sua família.
Você não precisa mais gastar tanto dinheiro e tanto tempo de viagem para desfrutar de um complexo de águas quentes de qualidade.

A small city settled by the Dutch about 130 km from São Paulo; It is one of the largest flower producers in Brazil.

More than a show, Expoflora is a great feast where the Dutch cultural roots are shown in the folk dances, music and unforgettable plates of Dutch and Brazilian food, all flavored with a great liveliness and cheerfulness. The mixing of all this gives the Dutch accent to the nature show.

Expoflora is a paradise of cultural and leisure attractions waiting for you.

The show of Flower Arrangements and landscape art let you see the nature transformed by men. With an amount of more than 1.000 flowers and plants species, it’s a must of Expoflora. The Garden Center is a large flower and plant shopping center.

There’s also a tour through Holambra. There are busses with specialized guides to show you the main tourist sites of the city.

The Mini-farm shows, in beautiful surroundings, some animals, birds, bees and greenhouses, showing all the phases of the plant growing.

Expoflora will make you know Holambra and its habits. It’s a show for all ages.

In every moment and in many places you can find musicians and dancers in traditional costumes, showing the Dutch traditions. In many places you can also find restaurants with a varied menu, mixing the Dutch taste to the Brazilian art of cooking which is also part of the feast. There are thematic and leisure gardens to relax and contemplate nature’s magnificence.

Expoflora is a different program in a exclusive place to fit those who look for relaxation, leisure and fun.

Holambra, the flowery gate to the next century.

You’ve got many reasons to visit Holambra: the flowers, the colors, the natural beauties, the Dutch cultural traditions, the “Expoflora” (greatest Flower and Plant Show in Latin America) and a warm hospitality.

Holambra is perfect for touring. The lovely and different landscape offered by the flowery fields, the white greenhouses standing out from the green fields, the Dutch architectural style of the buildings… those who come from the noise and haste of the big cities, find themselves in another world.

The work of man turned Holambra’s nature in a post card, keeping her ahead in high technology in flowers growing. A young city, with a dynamic economy. The flower and plant auction trade system through the Veiling Holambra is one of the most sophisticated in the world.

A little more than a half century old, today Holambra has a population of 10.000 in habitants, and is recognized as the greatest pole of flowers production and commerce in the country.

But there are not only flowers to be bought in Holambra. There’s a very diversified commerce, offering from Dutch art and decoration objects to first need products.

Seen from above, Holambra looks like a colored mosaic of fully utilized lands, besides the hundreds of acclimatized greenhouses for various kinds of flower and plant production for internal and exterior commerce.

Not very sophisticated and of diversified classification, Holambra Hotels are welcoming, familiar and cozy. Lodging in the city, the visitor will enjoy the generous nature and unforgettable leisure moments.

The gastronomy and cultural tradition also fascinate the visitors. Holambra’s cookery, which is served in restaurants, bars, fast-food restaurants and cafés, mixes brilliantly the Dutch specialties with international and Brazilian ones. Many of the Dutch cakes, pies and biscuits are still handmade, which makes them an attraction apart.

Guarujá became one of the most sophisticated beaches. The main beaches are Astúrias and Pitangueiras. The Tombo beach has strong waves and can be dangerous to the tourists but the surfers love it. Get to know the Guarujá by clicking here: www.guaruja.sp.gov.br

Chemnitz is an attractive city which pleases the eye. And though its charm is perhaps a bit austere, it becomes more apparent on second glimpse. There´s far more to the place than first meets the eye and this holds true whether you are a visitor or a long-time inhabitant, a tourist or local business person.

By making the effort to see Chemnitz as it really is, and not by just following the “official” sight-seeing paths, strangers and Chemnitz citizens alike can discover new facets to our city every day. We urge you to be inquisitive.
Create your own vision of Chemnitz from the images in these pages.

You´ll find Chemnitz´s charm evolves and becomes readily apparent.

But don´t just take our word, or even our “web”, for it: Come see for yourself!

Pomerode is located in the Itajai valley, between the two important industrial cities Blumenau and Jaragua do Sul, in the Santa Catarina region of southern Brazil. It was originally a german colonization that was began by Pommem in 1863 on the Rio do Testo.
The Pomerode city character is of Pommern tradition which is displayed through a typical architecture which our ancestors brought with them from their homeland. The particular distinguishing feature is the Fachwerk-Style, a wooden structure which is fitted out with open bricks.One of the main tasks of the city administration is to maintain this uniformity. Like most of the citizens, the city also themselves maintains flowering gardens in front of public buildings and in the city squares.
Worth-while sights in Pomerode:

- The zoological garden with an average of 7,500 monthly visitors
- The Teichmann family musuem near Portals
- The Carl Weege immigration museum in Pomerode Fundos
- The Pommern Musuem
Pomerode has over the decade developed in tranquility without large city hullabaloo and in the future also stands true to its motto: “Standard of living comprised of comfort and quality”.

É impossível não se render aos encantos de São Francisco do Sul, apelidada carinhosamente como São Chico. Situada no Norte do Estado, a 40 quilômetros de Joinville. O histórico município, que festejou 500 anos de fundação dia 5/01/2004, foi construído em local encantador tombado pelo Patrimônio Histórico Nacional em 1820. Sobrados em estilo colonial português enfeitam o centro da cidade que tem na sua arquitetura e nas ruas estreitas de pedras desiguais uns dos
maiores acervos coloniais do Brasil com seus 150 casarões centenários.
As construções retratam a influência dos colonizadores açorianos. As casas, de paredes grossas e portas grandes,
não têm jardins e abrem espaços para ruas e calçadas estreitas, que nos remete a uma viagem no tempo.
A riqueza histórico-cultural é contada nos museus. O Museu Histórico de São Francisco do Sul fica em um prédio construído no século 18 para abrigar a antiga cadeia pública e a Câmara de Vereadores. O Museu Nacional do Mar e Embarcações Brasileiras fica instalado nos antigos depósitos e escritórios da Empresa de Navegação Hoepcke, construídos no início do século passado. Ali podemos ver dezenas de peças, em tamanho natural e em miniatura, que contam a história da navegação, herança naval de africanos, holandeses, açorianos e indígenas. O destaque do acervo é o “Parati 1”, utilizado pelo navegador brasileiro Amyr Klink para cruzar o Atlântico em 1983, durante a histórica
viagem de cem dias entre a África e o Brasil.
O Mercado Público, inaugurado em 1900 para atender à pequena comunidade burguesa da região, hoje abriga lojinhas de artesanato.

A little about Joinville history:
Most of today’s Joinville territory came from the lands that François Ferdinand Philipe, Prince of Joinville and son of King Louis Philipe of France received as a gift for his marriage in 1843 with Princess Francisca Carolina of Portugal, the sister of D. Pedro II, King of Brazil.
So, when the first immigrants arrived on March 9th, 1851, from Germany, Switzerland and Norway, on board the Colon flatboat, the new city was founded, named ‘Colônia Dona Francisca’ (Lady Francisca’s Colony)

In 1852, the colony was named Joinville in honor of Prince François, who gave the immigrants part of his lands. This is the historical reason why Joinville is also called the City of the Princes, something that gives it some kind of nobless.

With a past of cultural values and keeping the signs of this origins, the city growed to its 500,000 current population and has the biggest industry pool in Santa Catarina state and one of the most important industrial areas in Brazil. Besides, the city is still welcoming and keeps its typical German-styled houses, parks and flowers.

A cultural center of major importance in the national scenery, Joinville makes presence in arts, dancing and its museums have a set of many valious items.

The hard work and traditions that came from the immigrants keep building up the City of Flowers.

Artistic and Cultural Attractions
Joinville Museum of Arts (“Museu de Arte de Joinville”) – besides the collection pieces, it promotes temporary exhibitions of local, state and national artists.
Open 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Tuesday to Friday
(11:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Saturdays, Sundays and Hollidays).
Belvedere-Tower over the 250 meters of Boa Vista hill. Panoramic view of Joinville, Babitonga Bay and São Francisco do Sul city.
City Public Market – German-style building.

Open 7:00 am to 7:00 pm Monday to Friday / 7:00 AM to 1:00 PM Saturday.
Festivities
The European immigrants who founded Joinville brought along the tradition of festivities and the custom for the typical parties, dancing and food.
This practice passed through the generations and is still alive, thought magnificent festivals that are part of the official city callendar, like: Tirovillefest – the annual shooting traditions’ party join many competitors and likers of such a millenary tradition.
International Dancing Festival – in July, the city becomes a huge stage to receive dancers and ballet groups for one of the biggest dancing shows in the world. The Joinville Dance Festival is the biggest competition for dance students in Latin America , as well as for professional and amateur dancers. Held annually in the second half of July, the event attracts around 4 thousand participants and a public of around 50 thousand people, who come to watch the spectacle at the Centreventos Cau Hansen. During the 11 nights of the Festival, invited companies and competing groups enrolled in the seven classes:

Classical Repertoire Ballet
Classical Ballet
Contemporary Dance
Jazz
Street Dance
Popular Dances
Tap Dancing
subdivided into three categories: junior, senior and advanced – expectantly make their stage entrance at the Centreventos Cau Hansen.
Several events are conducted during the Festival, such as the Half Point Festival, for children aged from 10 to 12 years, the Contemporary Dance Exhibition, for professional companies, and Alternative Stage presentations, held on specially erected stages in squares, malls and companies, in addition to a comprehensive program of Courses, Lectures and Workshops. The event is promoted by the Joinville Dance Festival Institute and maintained through sponsorship, enrollments and proceeds from the box office

Curitiba is also a world-wide example in urbanism solutions, education and environment. This Brazilian metropolis, in southern Brazil, was nominated as the American Capital of Cultural 2003, an initiative of the Organization of the American States (OEA).
City of eclectic culture and of strong influence from the European immigrants. This is mainly noticed in the city’s architecture, gastronomy and religion. The Metropolitan Cathedral of Curitiba, erected in 1894, was inspired by that of Barcelona. Curitiba has become world renowned for its innovative urban solutions, winning a UNESCO prize for its urban development. Its integrated transport planning is responsible for an effective infrastructure that makes bus travel fast and convenient.

Pousada do Rio Quente Resorts is placed in the city of Rio Quente, south region of Goias state, west-center region of Brazil. It’s spiked in the Caldas mountain range, far away 19 miles from the Caldas Novas city, owning special natural beauties. The water sprouts from 18 fountains, appearing from the rocks with an emptying of 150 million liters per day. With an average temperature of 100 F, the waters have therapeutic properties by having an alkaline inorganic chemistry complex formed by salt of bicarbonate, calcium, magnesium and potassium.

170 kms from Goiânia, Caldas Novas is famous for its hospitality, bringing into town one million and half of tourists during high season. A great part hails from Japan, Germany, USA, Argentina,just to mention some of the foreign countries; others arrive in mass from other Brazil’s states.
This forced the State Governcuent to build a modern airport, of intemational category. Caldas Novas put money into basic stmcture for a future industrialization. In the middle of ore deposits, the soil has gold, rutile, diamonds a big variery of quartz; aside from tourism, econmy relies heavily on farnting and cattle breeding, dairy, corn and rice. Caldas Novas is thinking to build a Convention Center, bringing thus businessmen and international fairs. But the biggest attraction are Caldas Novas `famous founts of thermal waters, between 35°C to 45°C. A modern service targeted at tourists, who enjoy a extensive hotel web with trained personell assure the gmth of tourist-based economy, allowing the lasting fame of Caldas Novas both in all Brazil and overseas