Natal Luz for free, end to end
6 stops · 1.1 km · ~3 h · start at 15:00, the parade passes at 16:00 · 6 stops
- Praça das Etnias
- Casa do Colono
- Praça Major Nicoletti
- Rua Coberta
- Fonte do Amor Eterno
- Palácio dos Festivais
139 verified spots across Gramado and Canela, with Natal Luz up to date · no Eater coverage
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This interactive map of Gramado (Brazil) brings together 139 hand-picked places: 43 attractions, 43 restaurants, 28 cafés and 25 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
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6 stops · 1.1 km · ~3 h · start at 15:00, the parade passes at 16:00 · 6 stops
6 stops · 10.5 km · ~5 h · Monday to Friday, which is when they actually produce · 6 stops
6 stops · 17 km · ~7 h · book Caracol and Skyglass online the night before · 6 stops
6 stops · 3.9 km · ~8 h · skip lunch, the café colonial replaces it · 6 stops
6 stops · 6.2 km · ~4 h · go in the morning, the valley backlights later · 6 stops
Praça das Etnias · Centro, Gramado
The square where the Vila de Natal lives: Christmas market, Casa de Papai Noel and lights every night, without paying a single real.
Tip: Open daily 9:00 to 21:00 until 10 January. Get there before 19:00 and stay for the 20:00 Show de Acendimento, the nightly switch-on, in front of the Palácio dos Festivais.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Gramadotur · official Natal Luz programme, 41st edition
Show on mapRua Coberta · Centro, Gramado
Two glass-roofed blocks packed with tables, live music and people: Gramado's living room.
Tip: The Palco Rua Coberta plays free Tuesday to Sunday at 18:30, and on Saturday and Sunday it adds a set at 11:30. Being roofed, it is exactly the plan for a rainy afternoon.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Gramadotur · official Natal Luz programme, 41st edition
Show on mapPalácio dos Festivais · Centro, Gramado
The Festival de Cinema's auditorium, with the carpet, the Kikitos and, in season, two ticketed shows a day.
Tip: The Festival de Cinema is in AUGUST, not now. What is running today is O Brilho do Natal (Thu to Sun, 15:00 and 18:00) and Natal Luz In Concert (Mondays, 21:00), both indoors.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 3 min walk
Featured in: Gramadotur · Natal Luz 2026/27 · Festival de Cinema 54th ed. (August 2026)
Show on mapEstátua do Kikito · Planalto, Gramado
The little gold figure that rewards Brazilian cinema, blown up to giant size with its hand raised for the photo.
Tip: It stands on Borges de Medeiros, steps from the Palácio. At night it is lit and the queue is far shorter than by day.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Prefeitura de Gramado · Festival de Cinema de Gramado
Show on mapPraça Major Nicoletti · Centro, Gramado
The Igreja Matriz square, with its benches, its clock and the best spot to watch the Parada de Natal go by.
Tip: The Parada de Natal is FREE and comes along Av. Borges de Medeiros on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 16:00. Plant yourself here an hour earlier if you want the front row.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Gramadotur · official Natal Luz programme, 41st edition
Show on mapIgreja Matriz São Pedro · Centro, Gramado
A 1942 basalt-stone church with German stained glass, on the highest point downtown.
Tip: Entry is free. In season the façade stays lit all night, and it is one of the few downtown photos with no crowd at 8:00 in the morning.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 3 min walk
Featured in: Paróquia São Pedro · Prefeitura de Gramado
Show on mapLago Negro · Planalto, Gramado
An artificial lake ringed by hortênsias — hydrangeas — and araucarias, with swan-shaped pedalinhos and the destination's most repeated postcard.
Tip: The full loop on foot takes about 20 minutes. During Natal Luz it is lit at night and there is no entry fee: the prettiest free walk in Gramado.
🚇 Bustour stop 26 · 4 min walk
Featured in: Prefeitura de Gramado · Gramadotur
Show on mapPedalinho · Planalto, Gramado
The pedal swans of Lago Negro, the ride every kid asks for the second they see the water.
Tip: Paid separately from the park, which is free. Up to four people per swan, and it pays to go early: after 15:00 the queue builds.
🚇 Bustour stop 26 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Concession operator · Parque do Lago Negro
Show on mapMini Mundo · Centro, Gramado
Scale models at 1:24 of buildings from around the world, with trains that really run: Gramado's oldest park, from 1980.
Tip: Careful with the models: several reproduce European stations and trains under their original names. They are German miniatures, not Gramado transport — the town has no urban rail at all.
🚇 Bustour stop 23 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Mini Mundo · official site
Show on mapAldeia do Papai Noel · Centro, Gramado
Santa's house, open all year, with an elves' workshop, reindeer and a forest of lights.
Tip: It is ticketed, and in December it is the most saturated spot in Gramado. If you go in season, buy online and pick a morning slot.
🚇 Bustour stop 32 · 5 min walk
Featured in: Aldeia do Papai Noel · official site
Show on mapLe Jardin Parque das Lavandas · Várzea Grande, Gramado
A French lavender field with a windmill, themed gardens and oils distilled on site.
Tip: The real flowering window runs from November to January: November is one of the best months of the year to see it purple. Outside that window you get pruned bushes.
🚇 Bustour stop 29 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Le Jardin Parque de Lavanda · official site
Show on mapAcquamotion · Linha Carazal, Gramado
An indoor thermal water park at 34 degrees, with slides and a heated outdoor pool.
Tip: Same owner and the same combo ticket as Snowland. It is the best plan for a rainy day in the Serra, and in spring there are several.
🚇 Bustour stop 27 · 10 min walk
Featured in: Acquamotion · official site
Show on mapDreamland Museu de Cera · Carniel, Gramado
A wax museum with more than ninety figures, from Einstein to the superheroes, on Av. das Hortênsias.
Tip: It is right next to the Harley Motor Show and Super Carros: all three fit into one afternoon and all three are under cover.
🚇 Bustour stop 18 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Dreamland · official site
Show on mapHarley Motor Show · Carniel, Gramado
A Harley-Davidson collection, classic cars and rock memorabilia, with a themed bar inside.
Tip: Go in through the same block as Dreamland. The bar can be visited without a museum ticket if you only want a drink.
🚇 Bustour stop 18 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Harley Motor Show · official site
Show on mapHollywood Dream Cars - Museu do Automóvel · Avenida Central, Gramado
A car museum with movie cars and a very well-executed fifties setting.
Tip: It is steps from the Prawer factory: pair them on the same stretch of Av. das Hortênsias and save yourself a trip.
🚇 Bustour stop 20 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Hollywood Dream Cars · official site
Show on mapMemorial Casa Italiana · Centro, Gramado
A big timber house telling the ITALIAN side of Gramado, the one the Bavarian brochure tends to cover up.
Tip: Gramado is not a German village: it was settled by Portuguese, Germans and Italians, and Borges de Medeiros was Italian in architecture. The Bavarian came later.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Revista Ágora (UNISC, 2018) · Prefeitura de Gramado
Show on mapBelvedere Vale do Quilombo · Jardim Bela Vista, Gramado
A lookout over an Atlantic-forest canyon with 600 m of drop, and a café right beside it.
Tip: Go in morning light: by afternoon the valley is backlit. It is free and inside the town itself.
🚇 Bustour stop 32 · 8 min walk
Featured in: Prefeitura de Gramado · Gramadotur
Show on mapGramado Zoo · Vila do Sol, Gramado
A South American wildlife zoo with an elevated walkway through the araucarias, focused on rescue.
Tip: It is far from downtown, out towards Várzea Grande: count on a car or a taxi, you will not walk there.
🚇 On foot · 25 min from downtown
Featured in: GramadoZoo · official site
Show on mapCasa do Colono · Centro, Gramado
A 1913 timber house turned into a museum of settler life, right on Praça das Etnias.
Tip: It sits inside the grounds where the Vila de Natal runs: in season you go into the museum and come out into the Christmas market without crossing the street.
🚇 Rodoviária de Gramado · 1 min walk
Featured in: Prefeitura de Gramado · Secretaria de Cultura
Show on mapFonte do Amor Eterno · Centro, Gramado
A fountain facing the Igreja Matriz where couples toss coins and hang padlocks.
Tip: It is at the same spot where the free Show de Acendimento starts at 20:00. Arrive 15 minutes early and you get a place.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 3 min walk
Featured in: Gramadotur · official Natal Luz programme
Show on mapLago Joaquina Rita Bier · Planalto, Gramado
The Planalto neighbourhood's lake, with huge araucarias and almost no tourists.
Tip: For years the lake show was staged here; today Nativitaten is set up at Serra Park. What is left is a quiet, free walk.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Gramadotur · Natal Luz 41st edition
Show on mapMuseu Major José Nicoletti Filho · Centro, Gramado
The municipal museum, with the photo archive of what Gramado looked like before it became Gramado.
Tip: Here you see the transformation with your own eyes: Italian timber houses in the 40s, Bavarian façades only in the 70s.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Prefeitura de Gramado · Secretaria de Cultura
Show on mapRua Torta · Centro, Gramado
A short, steep cobbled street of coloured houses, photogenic and barely signposted.
Tip: It is one block off Borges and almost nobody turns in. One of the few places downtown where you can walk in peace in December.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Prefeitura de Gramado
Show on mapParque Olivas de Gramado · Linha Nova, Gramado
A real olive grove, with a mill, oil tastings and a restaurant looking over the valley.
Tip: Ask for this year's harvest: gaúcho olive oil has NO Indicação Geográfica from INPI, so quality is judged by tasting, not by a seal.
🚇 By taxi or car · no bus stop nearby
Featured in: INPI · list of Indicações Geográficas for Rio Grande do Sul
Show on mapCatedral de Pedra · Centro, Canela
A neo-Gothic basalt-stone cathedral with a 65 m tower, Canela's absolute icon.
Tip: Plenty of people think it is in Gramado: it is in Canela, 8 km away. Its official name is Paróquia Nossa Senhora de Lourdes and entering the nave is free.
🚇 Bustour stop 4 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Paróquia Nossa Senhora de Lourdes · Mitra Diocesana de Novo Hamburgo
Show on mapPraça Matriz · Centro, Canela
The square facing the Catedral de Pedra, with a craft fair and the night light show.
Tip: Sit here as the sun drops: the cathedral's lighting comes on at night and reads far better from the square than from the pavement.
🚇 Bustour stop 4 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Prefeitura de Canela
Show on mapParque do Caracol · Caracol, Canela
The park of the 130 m waterfall, with walkways, a stairway down and an araucaria forest.
Tip: Entry is ticketed and has to be booked online days ahead. The Observatório Ecológico and the Parques da Serra cable car are separate gates and are paid separately.
🚇 Bustour stop 9 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Parque do Caracol · official site
Show on mapCascata do Caracol · Caracol, Canela
A drop of roughly 130 m over basalt, the most photographed falls in Rio Grande do Sul.
Tip: Official sources swing between 130 and 131 m: take the figure with a pinch of salt. You can see it from the lookout without going down the steps.
🚇 Bustour stop 9 · 7 min walk
Featured in: Parque do Caracol · official site
Show on mapBondinhos Aéreos - Parques da Serra · Caracol, Canela
A cable car over the canyon with a head-on view of the Cascata do Caracol from the air.
Tip: It is not included in the Parque do Caracol ticket even though it is next door: two different companies, two different ticket offices.
🚇 Bustour stop 10 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Parques da Serra · official site
Show on mapParque da Ferradura · Canela
A horseshoe-shaped canyon 420 m deep, with two lookouts and a trail down.
Tip: It charges its own entry, and the trail to the bottom demands fitness. The two lookouts at the top already justify the trip.
🚇 By taxi or car · no bus stop nearby
Featured in: Parque da Ferradura · Prefeitura de Canela
Show on mapSkyglass · Canela
A glass-floored lookout suspended over the Rio Caí canyon, with a zipline and a pendulum swing.
Tip: Book a time slot online: the glass platform has limited capacity and weekends sell out.
🚇 By taxi or car · no bus stop nearby
Featured in: Skyglass Canela · official site
Show on mapAlpen Park · SESI, Canela
An adventure park with a mountain toboggan, zipline and treetop course among the pines.
Tip: You pay per attraction or by combo. The mountain toboggan is the one worth the trip; the rest can be skipped.
🚇 Bustour stop 3 · 5 min walk
Featured in: Alpen Park · official site
Show on mapMundo a Vapor · Hortênsias, Canela
A steam-machine park, famous for the derailed train stuck into its façade.
Tip: The train photo is free from the pavement. Going in is only worth it if the machines genuinely interest you.
🚇 Bustour stop 36 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Mundo a Vapor · official site
Show on mapParque Terra Mágica Florybal · Suzana, Canela
A dinosaur and cave park with a mini chocolate factory inside.
Tip: Do not confuse it with the Florybal factory in Gramado, which is free: this is a ticketed theme park, and in another town.
🚇 Bustour stop 7 · 10 min walk
Featured in: Parque Terra Mágica Florybal · official site
Show on mapCastelinho Caracol · Caracol, Canela
A 1913 timber house built without a single nail, now an immigration museum and a cuca house — cuca being the Serra's German sweet bread.
Tip: Cuca straight out of the oven is sold on the ground floor and you can buy it without paying for the museum. Ask what time they bake.
🚇 Bustour stop 12 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Castelinho Caracol · official site
Show on mapMuseu Egípcio · Caracol, Canela
Egyptian replicas, mummies and a pyramid room, right on the road up to Caracol.
Tip: These are replicas, not original pieces, and it is fair to know that before paying. For primary-school kids it works very well.
🚇 Bustour stop 9 · 17 min walk
Featured in: Museu Egípcio de Canela · official site
Show on mapMundo Gelado · Caracol, Canela
An ice bar at 10 degrees below zero, with sculptures, ice glasses and a parka included.
Tip: In November, with 24 degrees outside, the contrast is half the fun. The ticket includes the coat: leave yours behind.
🚇 Bustour stop 11 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Ice Bar Mundo Gelado · official site
Show on mapSpace Adventure Canela · Hortênsias, Canela
A NASA exhibition with suits, capsules and real pieces from space missions.
Tip: It travels and the display rotates: if you have already seen it once, ask which pieces are on now before buying.
🚇 Bustour stop 36 · 4 min walk
Featured in: Space Adventure · official site
Show on mapFloresta Nacional de Canela · Canela
A national forest with trails among araucarias and eucalyptus, run by ICMBio.
Tip: It is a federal conservation unit and charges very little. The honest counterpoint to the theme parks next door.
🚇 By taxi or car · no bus stop nearby
Featured in: ICMBio · Floresta Nacional de Canela
Show on mapParque das Sequoias · Sequóias, Canela
A forest of sequoias planted in the 50s, with trails, a lookout and a lake.
Tip: These are the southernmost planted sequoias in Brazil. The long trail takes an hour and almost nobody walks all of it.
🚇 Bustour stop 3 · 18 min walk
Featured in: Parque das Sequoias · Prefeitura de Canela
Show on mapParque do Pinheiro Grosso · Pinheiro Grosso, Canela
An araucaria over 700 years old and 48 m tall, protected inside a municipal park.
Tip: It is free and takes ten minutes. It is on the road to Caracol: stop, look up, carry on.
🚇 Bustour stop 13 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Prefeitura de Canela
Show on mapPórtico de Canela · Hortênsias, Canela
The entrance arch into Canela, on the avenue that joins it to Gramado.
Tip: Gramado ends here and Canela begins. The two are toured together: 8 km of continuous avenue packed with attractions.
🚇 Bustour stop 17 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Prefeitura de Canela
Show on mapRuínas do Cassino · Palace Hotel, Canela
What is left of the 40s casino, shut down when Brazil banned gambling in 1946.
Tip: This is not a decorative ruin: gambling was banned by decree in 1946 and the building was left as it stands. It is on private land and seen from outside.
🚇 Bustour stop 3 · 15 min walk
Featured in: Prefeitura de Canela · municipal historical archive
Show on mapBelle Du Valais · Centro, Gramado
Gramado's Swiss fondue house since 1979, with the full sequência: cheese, meat and chocolate, in that order.
Tip: The sequência is a three-stage ritual and runs a good two hours. Book, and skip lunch: there is no other way to finish it.
🚇 Bustour stop 23 · 5 min walk
Featured in: Belle du Valais · house founded in 1979
Show on mapMaison de La Fondue · Centro, Gramado
Swiss fondue in a timber house on Borges, with cheese and meat served rodízio style.
Tip: It is on Borges de Medeiros: on Parada de Natal nights the street closes. Get there before 19:00 or you walk in from far away.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 3 min walk
Featured in: Maison de La Fondue · official site
Show on mapChateau de La Fondue · Centro, Gramado
Fondue in a little stone castle, with an Alpine cheese list and Prawer chocolate.
Tip: Order the third-stage chocolate even when you cannot take another bite: they use local chocolate, which is exactly why Gramado has an origin seal.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Château de La Fondue
Show on mapLe Chalet de La Fondue Restaurante · Centro, Gramado
A timber chalet with cheese, meat and chocolate fondue, steps from the Igreja Matriz.
Tip: You come out just in time for the 20:00 Show de Acendimento at the Palácio dos Festivais, which is free.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 5 min walk
Featured in: Gramadotur · Natal Luz programme
Show on mapCastello de Gazon · Centro, Gramado
Fondue and game dishes in a turreted building on Av. das Hortênsias.
Tip: They carry cuts you will not find in the downtown fondue houses. Ask for the dish of the day before ordering the sequência.
🚇 Bustour stop 23 · 5 min walk
Featured in: Castello de Gazon
Show on mapLe Belle Canto · Centro, Gramado
Fondue with live opera: the waiters sing arias between courses.
Tip: It is not recorded music: there are trained opera singers. If you want a quiet conversation, this is NOT your restaurant.
🚇 Bustour stop 23 · 6 min walk
Featured in: Le Belle Canto · official site
Show on mapRestaurante Republic do Fondue do Xico · Suíça, Canela
Unpretentious fondue at a sensible price, on the road between Gramado and Canela.
Tip: This is the fondue the locals eat. Away from downtown, no set design, and a good deal cheaper than Borges.
🚇 Bustour stop 15 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Serra Gaúcha
Show on mapTerrazzo Fondue · Centro, Canela
Fondue in Canela with a terrace over the avenue, calmer than the Gramado strip.
Tip: Canela serves the same dishes as Gramado with half an hour less waiting. If downtown is jammed, cross over.
🚇 Bustour stop 38 · 5 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Canela
Show on mapCantina Pastasciutta · Centro, Gramado
A 1979 Italian cantina with house-made pasta and the capeletti soup that defines the Serra.
Tip: Order the capeletti soup: it is the dish of the Serra's Italian settlement, and they have been making it here for more than forty years.
🚇 Rodoviária de Gramado · 1 min walk
Featured in: Cantina Pastasciutta · house founded in 1979
Show on mapTrattoria del Corso · Centro, Gramado
A trattoria on Borges with egg pasta and a short list of gaúcho wines.
Tip: It sits on the stretch that closes on Parada de Natal days. Book early or come after 21:00.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 3 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Gramado
Show on mapGiostra Cucina · Centro, Gramado
Contemporary Italian cooking at the Casa da Montanha hotel, open to the public.
Tip: It belongs to a hotel but anyone can walk in. The closest thing to chef-driven cooking you will find inside this bbox.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 10 min walk
Featured in: Casa da Montanha · restaurant open to the public
Show on mapNonno Mio · Centro, Gramado
Pasta and galeto — young chicken on the spit — downtown, with tables out on the pavement.
Tip: One of the few downtown that does not charge a season markup. A good lunch before the parade.
🚇 Rodoviária de Gramado · 1 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Gramado
Show on mapGaleto Mamma Mia · Jardim Bela Vista, Gramado
The house of galeto al primo canto: young chicken on the spit with polenta, radicci and pasta.
Tip: Galeto al primo canto is chicken under 30 days old roasted on the spit, an Italian inheritance of the Serra. Service is continuous: they keep coming until you say enough.
🚇 Bustour stop 21 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Italian tradition of the Serra Gaúcha · historic Gramado house
Show on mapGaleto D'Nase · Planalto, Gramado
Galeto, fried polenta and pasta downtown, family-style and generous.
Tip: Order the fried polenta on the side even though it comes included: it is the gaúcho side dish almost every tourist ignores.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Gramado
Show on mapPer Voi Massas e Galeto · Centro, Gramado
A pasta and galeto house two blocks off Borges, at neighbourhood prices.
Tip: It is off the tourist strip and you feel it on the bill. The honest option if you are staying several days in a row.
🚇 Rodoviária de Gramado · 3 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Gramado
Show on mapRestaurante Höppner · Planalto, Gramado
German cooking of the Serra: eisbein, sauerkraut, spätzle and apfelstrudel for dessert.
Tip: Here it really is German, not Bavarian set design. Order the apfelstrudel: it is the dessert the settlers brought, not a tourist invention.
🚇 Bustour stop 23 · 1 min walk
Featured in: Ritta Höppner · restaurant open to the public
Show on mapFritz Haus · Centro, Gramado
A German house on Borges with sausages, eisbein and craft beer from the Serra.
Tip: It is on the most walked stretch downtown. Pricey for what it is, but in season the location earns it.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 4 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Gramado
Show on mapRestaurante Schnitzelstubb · Centro, Canela
Schnitzel and German dishes in Canela, in a small, unpretentious house.
Tip: It is the German place Canela locals name when you ask where they eat. Huge portions.
🚇 Rodoviária de Canela · 4 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Canela
Show on mapChurrascaria Espelho Gaúcho · Centro, Canela
Gaúcho churrasco off the running skewer, with costela on the cross and a side buffet.
Tip: Churrasco is the real gaúcho kitchen, underneath the European set design. Order the costela: it is the cut that defines the barbecue here.
🚇 Bustour stop 38 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Canela
Show on mapChurrascaria Garfo & Bombacha · Caracol, Canela
A country galpão with churrasco, live fandango and a gaúcho dance show.
Tip: The show is gaúcho tradition, not German folklore. It is the most 'Rio Grande do Sul' night on the map.
🚇 Bustour stop 11 · 14 min walk
Featured in: Garfo e Bombacha · official site
Show on mapChurrascaria Chama de Fogo · Planalto, Gramado
Running skewers on Borges, with a hot buffet and desserts included.
Tip: It is on Borges de Medeiros, on the southern stretch. On parade days it is better to walk down from downtown.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 5 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Gramado
Show on mapParque Gaucho · Vila do Sol, Gramado
A country restaurant with churrasco and campfire cooking, far from the downtown noise.
Tip: It is out towards Várzea Grande, near GramadoZoo. Pair the two in the same outing.
🚇 On foot · 30 min from downtown
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Gramado
Show on mapBerga Mota · Linha 28, Canela
Regional Serra cooking in the Quilombo valley, with produce from its own garden.
Tip: It is on the road to Ecoparque Sperry, on gravel. Book: few tables and far out, this is not a place to improvise.
🚇 By taxi or car · no bus stop nearby
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Gramado
Show on mapChateau Gourmet · Centro, Gramado
Contemporary Brazilian cooking downtown, with a short menu and Serra wines.
Tip: One of the few downtown working a short menu and seasonal produce. Ask what is on beyond the printed menu.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 4 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Gramado
Show on mapAlecrim Santo · Centro, Gramado
A proper buffet by weight on Av. das Hortênsias, with home-style Serra cooking.
Tip: Buffet by the kilo is how Brazil has lunch, and here it is done well. The cheapest way to eat well in Gramado.
🚇 Bustour stop 23 · 5 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Gramado
Show on mapPlant Based Gramado · Carniel, Gramado
One hundred per cent plant-based cooking in a town of fondue and churrasco.
Tip: In a cheese-and-meat destination, this is the vegan option with no asterisks. Check the hours: it closes on odd days.
🚇 Bustour stop 18 · 4 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Gramado
Show on mapRestaurante Galangal · Centro, Canela
Genuine Asian cooking — Thai, Japanese and Indian — in downtown Canela.
Tip: After three days of fondue, this one saves you. The furthest from the German-Italian axis you will find around here.
🚇 Bustour stop 5 · 5 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Canela
Show on mapBorbulhas Steakhouse · Avenida Central, Gramado
A contemporary grill with dry-aged cuts and a list of Serra sparkling wines.
Tip: Gaúcho sparkling wine is the region's great drink. Careful: the sparkling wines with a Denominação de Origem come from Pinto Bandeira, outside this map.
🚇 Bustour stop 18 · 1 min walk
Featured in: INPI · Indicações Geográficas of Rio Grande do Sul
Show on mapRistorante Dile Valduga · Centro, Canela
The Valduga family's Italian table in Canela, facing the Praça da Matriz.
Tip: Casa Valduga belongs to Vale dos Vinhedos, which is OUTSIDE this map. This is their door inside the bbox.
🚇 Bustour stop 4 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Canela
Show on mapRestaurante Serramanna · Hortênsias, Canela
Serra Italian cooking on the road to Canela, with house-made filled pasta.
Tip: It is exactly halfway between the two downtowns, with its own car park. Useful if you are driving.
🚇 Bustour stop 36 · 2 min walk
Featured in: Local fieldwork · Canela
Show on mapPappardelle · Centro, Canela
Pasta and pizza in downtown Canela, one of the oldest houses on the square.
Tip: It is steps from the Catedral de Pedra, so you walk straight out into the night light show.
🚇 Bustour stop 5 · 2 min walk
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Show on mapToca da Bruxa · Centro, Canela
A wood-fired pizzeria facing Canela's Praça Matriz, open late.
Tip: One of the few kitchens still open after the museums close. The late plan in Canela.
🚇 Bustour stop 4 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapPizzaria Cara de Mau · Centro, Gramado
A neighbourhood pizzeria in Gramado with a thin base and prices that are not inflated.
Tip: It is three blocks off Borges and charges like a neighbourhood pizzeria, because that is what it is.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapHard Rock Cafe · Centro, Gramado
The global franchise in its Serra Gaúcha edition, with live music and burgers.
Tip: It is here in case you are travelling with teenagers who cannot face any more fondue. Do not expect anything from the Serra on the menu.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapGram Bier · Carniel, Gramado
A Gramado craft brewery with its own production and a tap room.
Tip: Craft beer is the German inheritance that survived without any set design. Order the tasting flight.
🚇 Bustour stop 18 · 5 min walk
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Show on mapBoteco do Bill · Suíça, Canela
A boteco with beer, petiscos and live music in Canela, with nothing touristy about it.
Tip: No fondue and no lights here: it is a Brazilians' bar. The perfect counterpoint to a week of postcards.
🚇 Bustour stop 15 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapMagnólia Cine Gastrô Bar · Centro, Canela
A bar and kitchen attached to the Cine Magnólia, in downtown Canela.
Tip: Check the Cine Magnólia listings first: you can have dinner and walk into the film without leaving the block.
🚇 Bustour stop 4 · 6 min walk
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Show on mapLa Estación Carnes Premium · Centro, Canela
A premium-cut grill inside Canela's old station complex.
Tip: It is inside the Estação Campos de Canella complex, walkable end to end: several kitchens in one block.
🚇 Bustour stop 38 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapFérreo · Centro, Canela
Contemporary cooking in Canela's old railway station, with an open grill.
Tip: Canela's railway complex was converted wholesale into dining. It is the best block to eat in that town.
🚇 Bustour stop 38 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapEmpório Canela · Centro, Canela
A board of Serra cheeses, cured meats and wines, to eat there or take away.
Tip: Ask for the queijo serrano: it holds an INPI Denominação de Origem for Campos de Cima da Serra. It is the only gaúcho cheese with a seal.
🚇 Bustour stop 4 · 2 min walk
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Show on mapRestaurante do Caracol · Caracol, Canela
A dining room inside Parque do Caracol, looking onto the araucaria forest.
Tip: You only get in with the paid park ticket: it is not an independent door. Factor that into the lunch plan.
🚇 Bustour stop 9 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapAquecee · Planalto, Gramado
Broths, soups and fondue in small format, built for cold Serra nights.
Tip: Even in spring the nights still drop below 14 degrees. This is the light dinner for when you cannot face another sequência.
🚇 Bustour stop 31 · 2 min walk
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Show on mapMestre Cuca · Bavaria, Gramado
Home-style gaúcho cooking out in the neighbourhood, with the dish of the day the neighbours eat.
Tip: It is off every circuit. Weekday noon, dish of the day, canteen prices: that is how you eat cheaply in Gramado.
🚇 Bustour stop 24 · 2 min walk
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Show on mapCafé Colonial Bela Vista - 1 · Jardim Bela Vista, Gramado
The cathedral of the café colonial — the Serra's huge German-rooted spread: more than 80 items brought to the table, from cucas and cheeses to polenta and meats.
Tip: This is not coffee and cake: it is a full meal of more than 80 items that merges breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea. Skip lunch and arrive genuinely hungry.
🚇 Bustour stop 21 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapCafé Colonial Bela Vista - 2 · Carniel, Gramado
Bela Vista's second house, on Av. das Hortênsias, with the same endless table.
Tip: Two different addresses under one brand: check which one you booked, they are 4 km apart.
🚇 Bustour stop 19 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapGramado Café Colonial · Hortênsias, Canela
More than 80 items of café colonial table in a big house with a garden, in Carniel.
Tip: Buy online in advance and it comes out considerably cheaper than at the door. That is the pattern across almost all of Gramado.
🚇 Bustour stop 16 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapCoelho Café Colonial · Carniel, Gramado
A café colonial of the kind that bakes its own cuca and bread the same day, on Av. das Hortênsias.
Tip: Cuca is the German sweet bread that defines afternoon eating in the Serra. Here it is baked on site: ask for the grape one.
🚇 Bustour stop 34 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapCafé Colonial Aroma · Carniel, Gramado
A smaller, cheaper café colonial table, on the same stretch of Av. das Hortênsias.
Tip: If you do not want to commit to 80 items, this is the reduced format. Half the table, half the price.
🚇 Bustour stop 34 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapCafé Colonial Gramberry · Carniel, Gramado
A café colonial heavy on strawberries, the fruit the Serra genuinely grows.
Tip: The strawberry is real regional production, not decoration. In spring it is at full season.
🚇 Bustour stop 18 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapTorre Café Colonial · Centro, Gramado
A café colonial in a tower with a view over the valley, in Planalto.
Tip: Ask for a window table when you book: half the point is the view, and not every table has it.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 5 min walk
Featured in: Torre Café Colonial · official site
Show on mapCasa da Velha Bruxa · Centro, Gramado
A house of hot chocolate, crêpes and cakes right on Borges de Medeiros.
Tip: Thick chocolate quente is exactly the right order while you wait for the 16:00 Parada de Natal.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 3 min walk
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Show on mapCasa da Velha Bruxa · Centro, Canela
The Canela branch, inside the old railway station complex.
Tip: It is in the converted railway complex: have your chocolate and carry on walking among the other kitchens.
🚇 Bustour stop 38 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapLugano Chocolate · Centro, Gramado
The Lugano chocolate house's café on Borges, with chocolate fondue.
Tip: Lugano NO LONGER runs factory visits: that is over. What is left is the shop and the café, and both are very good.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapPrawer Chocolates · Avenida Central, Gramado
The only chocolate factory on the map with a genuine paid guided tour, tasting included.
Tip: The tour is paid, runs about 30 minutes and has to be booked: there is no grace period if you are late. Production is only visible Monday to Friday.
🚇 Bustour stop 33 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapFlorybal Chocolates Loja Matriz · Floresta, Gramado
A glass walkway over Florybal's production line, with a guide and a tasting, free.
Tip: It is the only factory you can visit without paying a single real. Do not confuse it with the 15 Florybal shops downtown, which are only shops.
🚇 On foot · 25 min from downtown
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Show on mapChocolate Caseiro Planalto · Carniel, Gramado
A family factory with a free guided visit to the production line, in Carniel.
Tip: Production runs Monday to Friday: go on a Saturday and you see the factory standing still. That detail ruins a lot of visits.
🚇 Bustour stop 18 · 3 min walk
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Show on mapChocolataria Gramado · Carniel, Gramado
The chocolate house of the town that gives the seal its name: artisan chocolate with an Indicação de Procedência.
Tip: Gramado holds Brazil's FIRST Indicação de Procedência for artisan chocolate, granted by INPI in 2021. Ask about the seal.
🚇 Bustour stop 19 · 5 min walk
Featured in: INPI · IP Gramado for artisan chocolate (2021)
Show on mapChocolate Gramadense · Carniel, Gramado
A historic artisan chocolate house with a workshop where you make your own bar.
Tip: The workshop is booked separately on WhatsApp and runs about an hour. The best rainy-day plan with kids on the map.
🚇 Bustour stop 34 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapCaracol Chocolates · Carniel, Gramado
A themed walk-through on the history of cacao, with a shop and a café at the end.
Tip: You see no production here: it is a museum-style walk. If you want to watch chocolate actually being made, go to Prawer or Florybal.
🚇 Bustour stop 18 · 6 min walk
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Show on mapMiroh · Planalto, Gramado
A bean-to-bar atelier with single-origin chocolate tastings, the most technical project in town.
Tip: The opposite of window-display chocolate: single-origin cacao and a guided tasting. Confirm the hours before going, they vary.
🚇 Bustour stop 26 · 7 min walk
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Show on mapCoffeeSpot | FoodBike · Centro, Gramado
Third-wave specialty coffee, with filter methods and beans roasted in Brazil.
Tip: In Gramado the third wave is a minority next to the café colonial. This is one of the few doing filter coffee seriously.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 2 min walk
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Show on mapVB wine & Coffee · Centro, Gramado
Specialty coffee and a glass of gaúcho wine at the same counter, steps from the Rua Coberta.
Tip: It changes register with the hour. In the afternoon it is coffee; after 19:00 it is the glass before dinner.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapAtelier do Café · Centro, Gramado
A small café on Borges with its own roast and home-made cakes.
Tip: It is on the most walked stretch downtown, so at 17:00 there is no table free. Come at 15:00.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapCafe Cultura · Centro, Canela
A specialty coffee chain from southern Brazil, with a branch facing Canela's Praça Matriz.
Tip: It is a chain, but a southern Brazilian one and with good beans. The view of the Catedral de Pedra from the window is free.
🚇 Bustour stop 2 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapBraziliano Café e Bistrô · Centro, Canela
A café and bistro in downtown Canela, with a long breakfast and cakes of the day.
Tip: It opens early, which in Canela is not a given. A good starting point before heading up to Caracol.
🚇 Bustour stop 1 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapChocolataria Gramadense · Centro, Canela
The Gramado house's counter inside the Canela station complex.
Tip: Every door of these brands keeps its own hours. Check the Canela one separately: it closes earlier than the Gramado one.
🚇 Bustour stop 38 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapGelateria Veneta · Centro, Canela
Italian-style artisan gelato at the Canela station, with Serra flavours.
Tip: By November the afternoons are already warm: gelato makes sense again, which around here in July it does not.
🚇 Bustour stop 38 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapAlpen · Centro, Canela
An ice-cream shop and café facing Canela's Praça Matriz, a classic of the square.
Tip: A table outside, facing the Catedral de Pedra. In the afternoon it is the best place in Canela to do nothing at all.
🚇 Bustour stop 4 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapMartha Confeitaria · Centro, Canela
A neighbourhood patisserie on Praça Matriz, with cuca, sonho and bread baked that day.
Tip: This is the padaria where Canela has breakfast. The cuca here costs a quarter of what it does on Borges de Medeiros.
🚇 Bustour stop 2 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapMerengues Excelência · Centro, Canela
A house of meringues and egg-white sweets, a Serra specialty that nobody explains.
Tip: The giant meringue is an inheritance of the region's German baking. Eat it the same day: it will not survive the journey home.
🚇 Rodoviária de Canela · 1 min walk
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Show on mapSanto Queijo Gramado · Centro, Gramado
A Serra cheese shop with a board to eat in and wine by the glass.
Tip: Order queijo serrano: it is the only Serra cheese with an INPI Denominação de Origem, registered in 2020.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 12 min walk
Featured in: INPI · DO Queijo Serrano dos Campos de Cima da Serra (2020)
Show on mapLargo da Borges · Centro, Gramado
An open-air shopping arcade in the heart of Borges, with brands and cafés.
Tip: In season it stays open late and the windows are decorated end to end: it is part of the free side of Natal Luz.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapGaleria São Pedro Boulevard · Centro, Gramado
A small arcade on Borges with crafts, leather and brand shops.
Tip: Roofed end to end: the shopping refuge when downtown fills up with people and with rain.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 3 min walk
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Show on mapKika Couros · Centro, Canela
Gaúcho leather: jackets, bags and boots made in Rio Grande do Sul.
Tip: Leather is a real industry in this state, not a souvenir. Ask to see the origin label before you pay.
🚇 Bustour stop 5 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapLZ Couro Legitimo · Centro, Gramado
A genuine leather shop on Largo Claudio Pasqual, right in downtown Gramado.
Tip: It is steps from the Rua Coberta. Comparing prices here and in Canela pays off: the gap on the same jacket is wide.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 2 min walk
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Show on mapPufflândia · Centro, Canela
Poufs, cushions and leather goods, a classic of Av. Osvaldo Aranha.
Tip: They ship abroad: ask about delivery before writing something off because of its size.
🚇 Bustour stop 38 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapMalhas Petry · Avenida Central, Gramado
Knitwear from the Serra: the region's other historic industry alongside leather.
Tip: Malhas are genuine local production. In November the winter clearance is on: the best moment of the year.
🚇 Bustour stop 34 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapShow de Malhas · Centro, Canela
A malhas and knitwear shop on Canela's main avenue.
Tip: Canela charges less than Gramado for the same knit. If you are buying in volume, buy on this side.
🚇 Bustour stop 5 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapMarisol Outlet · Carniel, Gramado
A clothing outlet on Av. das Hortênsias, in the outlet corridor between the two towns.
Tip: Av. das Hortênsias packs some ten outlets in a row. You can do the lot on foot in one afternoon.
🚇 Bustour stop 34 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapPolo Team · Carniel, Gramado
A classic-clothing outlet on the same outlet stretch of Av. das Hortênsias.
Tip: It is right beside Marisol and the shoe shops. The most efficient shopping stretch on the map.
🚇 Bustour stop 34 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapPlaneta do Sapato · Avenida Central, Gramado
Gaúcho footwear at factory prices, in the Av. das Hortênsias corridor.
Tip: Rio Grande do Sul is Brazil's footwear hub. Here you buy direct, without going through the brand.
🚇 Bustour stop 34 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapTerritório do Sapato · Carniel, Gramado
An outlet shoe shop on the Carniel stretch, with Brazilian brands.
Tip: Compare it with Planeta do Sapato and Quitanda do Sapato, two blocks away: the prices are not the same.
🚇 Bustour stop 19 · 5 min walk
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Show on mapMundo do Sapato · Avenida Central, Gramado
Another shoe shop in the outlet corridor, with a big stock from last season.
Tip: The old stock is here, and that is where the real discount lives. Check the sizes carefully.
🚇 Bustour stop 34 · 3 min walk
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Show on mapMãos do Mundo · Centro, Canela
Crafts and signed art facing Canela's Praça Matriz, with pieces from the Serra.
Tip: Here the pieces are signed by local artisans. The honest alternative to the imported souvenir.
🚇 Bustour stop 4 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapFeira de Artesanato - Associação Canelense dos Artesãos - Largo Benito Urbani · Centro, Canela
The Canela artisans' association fair, at Largo Benito Urbani.
Tip: You buy straight from whoever made it, with no middleman. Walking through is free and the prices are the best in the category.
🚇 Bustour stop 38 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapRecanto Gaúcho · Centro, Canela
Genuine gaúcho gear: the mate gourd, the metal straw, bombacha trousers and the criollo knife.
Tip: Chimarrão — the shared gourd of hot mate — is THE drink of Rio Grande do Sul, far more than coffee. Ask them to show you how it is prepared before you buy.
🚇 Bustour stop 5 · 2 min walk
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Show on mapVinhos e Queijos do Sul · Centro, Canela
Wines, sparkling wines and cheeses from the south, in downtown Canela.
Tip: Vale dos Vinhedos is outside this map, but its wines are sold here. Ask for the DO seal on the label.
🚇 Bustour stop 2 · 1 min walk
Featured in: INPI · DO Vale dos Vinhedos (2012)
Show on mapVitivinícola Jolimont · Canela
A high-altitude winery inside the municipality of Canela, with a visit and cool-climate wine tasting.
Tip: This is the winery that really is on this map. Vale dos Vinhedos, the famous one, is 70 km away and falls outside it.
🚇 On foot · 32 min from downtown
Featured in: Vinhos Jolimont · official site
Show on mapVinícola Ravanello · Linha Carazal, Gramado
A family winery in Gramado with tasting, lunch and a view over the valley.
Tip: Pair it with Olivas de Gramado: they sit on the same road west and fit into half a day.
🚇 Bustour stop 27 · 5 min walk
Featured in: Vinícola Ravanello · official site
Show on mapJolimont · Centro, Gramado
The Jolimont shop on Borges de Medeiros, to buy without driving up to the winery.
Tip: If there is no time for the winery, the same label is here, steps from the Rua Coberta.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 4 min walk
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Show on mapPlanalto · Centro, Gramado
The downtown Chocolate Planalto shop, on Borges de Medeiros.
Tip: This is the SHOP. The factory with the free visit is in Carniel, 4 km away: two different doors.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 6 min walk
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Show on mapCaracol · Centro, Gramado
The Caracol Chocolates shop in downtown Gramado, on Borges.
Tip: During Natal Luz the downtown windows are decorated and stay lit at night: looking at them is part of the free side of the event.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapChocoá · Centro, Gramado
A chocolate shop on Borges with signature bonbons and single-origin bars.
Tip: Among twenty identical chocolate shops, this one works with origin and percentage. Ask for the cacao percentage.
🚇 Bustour stop 22 · 3 min walk
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Show on mapWow Presentes Criativos · Centro, Canela
A design gift shop inside the Canela station complex.
Tip: One of the few places on the strip where the gift does not say 'Gramado' on the label.
🚇 Bustour stop 38 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapSuper Marcas · Caracol, Canela
A brand outlet on the way to Parque do Caracol, handy to combine with the climb.
Tip: It is on Rua Constante Felix Orsolin, on the road to Caracol. A stop along the way, not a destination.
🚇 Bustour stop 10 · 1 min walk
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Show on mapMundo a Vapor Store · Centro, Canela
The Mundo a Vapor park shop, inside the Canela station complex.
Tip: You get into the shop without paying the park entry, which is 2 km away in another direction.
🚇 Bustour stop 38 · 1 min walk
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