Founded in 1875, this city of around 111,000, example, boasts a number of interesting attractions, including a vintage steam train; an immigrant museum; a cultural center including an art gallery; and even an indoor theme park also of Italian immigration called Epopéia Italiana. But what most sticks in my mind is how seriously it takes its wine heritage, with for instance a church and an enormous cement gate into the city which both suggest the shape of a wine barrel (the latter, above, proclaims,”You Are Entering the World of Wine”).

Read more in my post The Lovely, Little Known Wine Country of Brazil.