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4 unusual facts about Florianópolis


Douglas Franco Teixeira

Born in Florianópolis, Douglas has played in Brazil, the Netherlands and Russia for Joinville, FC Twente and Dynamo Moscow.

Gilberto Fortunato

Gilberto Valdenésio Fortunato (born 7 November 1987 in Florianópolis) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a forward for KF Tirana in the Albanian Superliga.

Nuno Sá Pessoa

He then moved to Florianópolis in order to work with Brazilian producer and filmmaker Maria Emília de Azevedo, there, he edited the film Passagens and he edited and directed the film The Lagoon, written by and starring João Craveiro.

Presunto

In Brazil, nevertheless, hams in general are called presuntos altogether (except by people used to the Portuguese terminology, usually in areas with heavy Portuguese immigration such as Rio de Janeiro and Florianópolis), and this is the name used in the market for common hams.


Footvolley

Footvolley started in Rio de Janeiro; however cities like Recife, Salvador, Brasília, Goiânia, Santos and Florianópolis have players who have been playing footvolley since the 1970s.

Luís Inácio Adams

Adams earned his LL.B from the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, the capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, and later pursued a LLM from the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, the capital of the State of Santa Catarina.

Marcos Christino Fioravanti

In 1803, when serving as the surgeon of the HMS Seahorse, he disembarked in Brazil at the town of the Desterro in (what today is known as Florianópolis), and from there went on to settle in Osório in Rio Grande do Sul.

Notícias do Dia

It publishes different editions for the cities of Florianópolis, Tijucas, Joinville, Palhoça, and Biguaçu.

Santo Amaro da Imperatriz

Auto Viação Imperatriz is the bus enterprise that drives people to Palhoça, São José and Florianópolis.

São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina

On the first day of March of 1829 the first German speaking colony of the state of Santa Catarina was founded, receiving the Portuguese name of Colônia São Pedro de Alcântara, located not too far from the state's capital, Desterro, having its name changed in modern times to Florianópolis.

Walter Taylor Bridge

The bridge is a similar design to the Hercilio Luz Bridge in Florianopolis, Brazil, with the truss carrying the bridge being above the roadway and meeting the cables at non-uniform heights.


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