FLORIANÓPOLIS - SC


Florianópolis is the capital of Santa Catarina's state, Brazil. The name refers Floriano Peixoto, former-president from Brazil in the Old Republic. Originally, the city had the name of Exile, in reference Our Lady of the Exile, its padroeira. The name change was followed to Revolução Federalista's end, in 1894, and controvertida is still considered on the part of the inhabitants of the city. It is located at the east of Santa Catarina's state and it is taken a bath by the Oceano Atlântico. Great part of Florianópolis (97,23%) it is placed in Santa Catarina's Island, where, added to the continental ones, they exist about 100 beaches. The hymn of the municipal district is the song Ranch of Love to the Island, composed by the poet Cláudio Alvim Barbosa, Zininho, in 1965. The song was made official as hymn in 1968. Primórdios The first inhabitants of the area of Florianópolis were the Indian tupis-Guaranis. They practiced the agriculture, but they had in the fishing and collection of mollusks the basic activities for its subsistence. The indications of its presence meet at the sambaquis and archaeological ranches whose older registrations date of 4800 a.C. Centuries XVI and XVII Quadro of Victor Meirelles showing the city in the middle of the century XIXJá in the beginning of the century XVI, embarkations that demanded the Basin of the Silver contributed in Santa Catarina's Island to provision of water and provisions. However, only about 1675 it is that the member of the Bandeiras Francisco Old Dias, with its family and attachés, leads off the povoamento of the island with the foundation of Our Lady of the Exile (current Florianópolis) - second nucleus of older povoamento of the state, still being part of the villa of Lagoon - playing important political part in the colonization of the area. Century XVIII starting from Old Dias coming intensifies the flow of from São Paulo and vicentistas, that occupy several other points of the coast. In 1726, Our Lady of the Exile is elevated to the villa category, starting from its desmembramento of Lagoon. Santa Catarina's island, for its strategic position as vanguard of the Portuguese domains in southern Brazil, becomes busy militarmente starting from 1737, when they begin to be erected the necessary fortresses to the defense of its territory. That fact resulted in an important step in the occupation of the island. With the occupation, the agriculture and the industry cotton manufatureira and linen prospered, staying, still today, rests of that past, in what refer to the handmade making of the cassava flour and of the bilro incomes. In that time, middles of the century XVIII, the implantação of the " frames " is verified for fishing of the whale, in Frame of the Pity (Governor Celso Ramos) and Frame of the Swamp of the South (Florianópolis), whose oil was marketed out by the Crown of Santa Catarina, not bringing economic benefit to the area. Century XIX In the century XIX, Exile was elevated to the city category; he/she became Capital of Santa Catarina's County in 1823 and it inaugurated a prosperity period, with the investment of federal resources. They were projected the improvement of the port and the construction of public buildings, among other urban works. The political modernization and the organization of cultural activities also stood out, marking the preparations besides for the reception to Emperor D. Pedro II (1845). In October of that year, anchored the imperial embarkation in the surroundings of the Island, D. Pedro stayed in soil catarinense for almost one month. In that period, the Emperor went several times to the Church (today Catedral Arquidiocesana), he went for a walk for the streets of the Villa of the Exile and, in Government's " House, it granted " kiss-hand ". In 1891, when the marshal Deodoro of Fonseca, for influence of the Revolt of the Armada, gave up the presidency of the recently-instituted republic, vice-president Floriano Peixoto assumed the power, but it didn't summon elections after that, thwarting him prescribed in the Constitution promulgated on this same year, fact that generated two revolts: to 2nd Revolt of the Armada (original of the Navy, in Rio) and the Revolução Federalista (sponsored by farmers gaúchos). The two insurrections arrived to the Exile with the support of the catarinenses. However, Floriano Peixoto contained them when trapping its leaders and, with that, they so-only remained in the domain of the city sympathetic of the president, that, in its homage, they gave to the capital the denomination of Florianópolis, that is to say, " city of Floriano ". Also, in the end of the century XIX, in 1898, an important school was founded by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Divine Providence, Jesus Century's XX Ponte Hercílio Colégio Coração Shines in image noturnaA city, from entering of the century XX, it went by deep transformations. The civil construction made herself one of its main economic supports. The implantação of the basic nets of electric energy, of the system of supply of water and of the net of sewers it was added to Ponte Hercílio's construction it Shines, everything to mark the process of urban development. Besides, in 1943 it was enclosed to the municipal district the continental part, before belonging to neighboring São José. At the end of the century XX—in the last three decades, mainly—, the island tried singular affluence of new inhabitants, begun with the transfer of the headquarters of Eletrosul of Rio de Janeiro for the center of the island, with thirst fastened at the neighborhood Swampland. Contruíram-if two new bridges linking the island to the continent: the bridge Colombo Salles and the bridge Pedro Ivo Campos. The moved away of the island neighborhoods were also object of intense urbanization. New neighborhoods appeared, just as International Jurerê, of high level socioeconômico, while in some points a disordered occupation began, without the due zeal with regard to urbanization works. Inauguration of Ponte Hercílio Shines late In a rainy one, on May 13, 1926, Florianópolis was favored with one of the most important constructions, today, representative icon of the city and of Santa Catarina's state. The bridge Hercílio Luz was the first terrestrial connection between the island and the continent. Its idealizador, the Governor of the State, Hercílio Pedro of the Light, unhappily was not capable to see it ready, because it died not very less than five months before the inauguration. The bridge was a historical mark in fact, not only for the city or for the state, but also for Brazil and the world. All its material was brought by the North Americans, engineers Robinson and Steinmann. The budget of the construction at that time was of 5 million dollars, value that it was financed by several North American banks. Unhappily, on January 22, 1982 DER/SC was forced to close the bridge for any type of traffic due to the precarious conditions in that the bridge was. Even so on March 15, 1988 Ponte Hercílio Luz only went reaberta to the pedestrians' traffic, bicycles, motorcycles and vehicles of animal traction. In February of 1990, a report of analysis of viability of the reabertura of the traffic of the bridge was presented for the it Sifts Engineering and Projects and Manufacturer Rubs Ltda, what carted in new interditação on July 4, 1991. The bridge still today stays shut, even so a partnership between the city hall and the government of the state gave beginning its reform on February 13, 2006. Florianópolis is the capital of Santa Catarina's state, Brazil. The name refers Floriano Peixoto, former-president from Brazil in the Old Republic. Originally, the city had the name of Exile, in reference Our Lady of the Exile, its padroeira. The name change was followed to Revolução Federalista's end, in 1894, and controvertida is still considered on the part of the inhabitants of the city. It is located at the east of Santa Catarina's state and it is taken a bath by the Oceano Atlântico. Great part of Florianópolis (97,23%) it is placed in Santa Catarina's Island, where they locate more than 100 beaches. The hymn of the municipal district is the song Ranch of Love to the Island, composed by the poet Cláudio Alvim Barbosa, Zininho, in 1965. The song was made official as hymn in 1968.