During the next decades, the region was settled by immigrants coming mostly from the Italian regions of Veneto, Trentino, and Lombardia.
Clube Esportivo Bento Gonçalves, usually known as Esportivo de Bento Gonçalves or simply as Esportivo is a Brazilian football club from Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul state.
The other rival of Caxias is Esportivo of Bento Gonçalves.
Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Mr. Bacca was the patron of ´Feira do Livro´(Book Fair), Bento Gonçalves (RG / Brazil), 1999 edition.
In Bento Gonçalves, where he was raised, there were only two families of German origin- the Geisel and the Dreher- while the majority of the population was composed of Italian immigrants.
After the death of the former General Secretary of the Party, Bento Gonçalves, in the prison camp of Tarrafal, in Portuguese Cape Verde, Militão Ribeiro initiated, along with Álvaro Cunhal and Júlio Fogaça, a major reorganization of the Party, in the early 1940s.