Santa Maria (Rio Grande do Sul)

Located at latitude 29º41'03" South and longitude 53º48'25" West, the city stays at 151m of altitude. The estimated population in 2004 was 261,980 inhabitants.
Santa Maria is also known as "Cidade Cultura" (Culture City).

• BR-158
• BR/RS-287
• BR-392
• RS-509
• RS-516 - north-northwest from Caçapava do Sul

By bus

• Rodoviária de Santa Maria (in Portuguese). Information on lines and schedules.

• Coronel Pillar Historical Center

• Edmundo Cardoso Memory House

• Gama D'Eça Educational Museum

  address: Rua do Acampamento, 81 - Centro
  Contains fossils from the Paleorrota geo-park.

• Historical Culture Museum of the Franciscan Brothers

• I.E.E. Olavo Bilac Historical Archive

• João Luiz Pozzobon House Museum

• Mallet Museum

• Manoel Ribas College Memorial

• Museum of Astronomy and Planetarium

• Treze de Maio Community Museum

• Vicente Pallotti Museum

  phone: +55 55 3220-4565
  address: Av. Presidente Vargas, 115 - Patronato
  Contains fossils from the Paleorrota geo-park.

• Rio Grande do Sul Japanese Immigration and Culture Memorial

• Santa Maria Art Museum

• Santa Maria Railroad Museum

• Santa Maria Sacred Museum

Ride a bike "MTB" in Itaara and 4a Colônia.

• Restaurante Augusto

  phone: +55 55 3223-1050
  address: Floriano Peixoto st, 1354
  Traditional mid-age restaurant

• Frei Pança

  phone: +55 55 3221-2122
  address: Floriano Peixoto st, 1328
  Pizza, pasta

• Churrascaria Vera Cruz

  phone: +55 55 3222-0606
  address: Medianeira Av, 1600
  Very famous chicken barbecue

• Imperial Sucos

  phone: +55 55 3222-5330
  address: Floriano Peixoto st, 1009
  Sandwiches, mix juices

• Bovinu's Churrascaria

  phone: +55 55 3221-1790
  address: Venâncio Aires st, 1596
  The best barbecue in the city (all you can eat style, buffet)

• Ponto de Cinema

• Park Hotel Morotin

  phone: +55 55 3220-1600
  address: RST 287 road - km 239 - Nº 1981
  Probably the best hotel in this area. More than 90 apartments and an event structure to receive about 1700 people simultaneously. Each apartment have phone with direct call and answering machine, air-conditioner, TV Directv with remote control and a small refrigerator. The hotel is about 5km from the city centre. The taxi fare is between R$15 and R$20. A single apartment costs about R$ 92,40 per day, a double costs R$ 132,00 and a triple costs about R$ 193,60. Note that this values can be modified during the year.

• Hotel Continental

  address: Benjamin Constant st, 1209

• Itaimbé Palace Hotel

  phone: +55 55 3222-1144
  address: Venâncio Aires st, 2741

• Palladium Executive Flat

  phone: +55 55 3222-4682
  address: Buenos Aires al, 322

• Hotel Morotin

  phone: +55 55 3222-4453
  address: Ângelo Uglione st, 1629