245 years old and almost 1.5 million inhabitants, Porto Alegre is a cosmopolitan and multicultural city. Important museums, like Iberê Camargo, Margs and Santander Cultural, are standouts in culture and arts. Theatre Festivals, like Porto Alegre em Cena, and the classical Feira do Livro are also traditions of the city. This mosaic of expressions makes the gaucho capital a city rich in culture, leisure and history.

  The architecture preserved at Centro Histórico’s area, Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Mercado Público, with its spices and good restaurants, are worth the visit. Concluding, the sunset at Guaíba and the return of Usina do Gasômetro are a couple that normally remains in the memory of who visits it.

   Porto Alegre lives the present gazing at the future. It shelters a teaching and research headquarters, with two of the best universities in the country, Universidade Federal do RS and PUC/RS, and two of the biggest technological centres in Brazil. Our mandate works on transforming Porto Alegre in an active, innovative and entrepreneurial city, capable of maintaining and attracting companies that bring new opportunities for who was born in our city or for who has chosen to live in it.

Nelson Marchezan Júnior – Porto Alegre’s Mayor