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Nova Bréscia is a municipality in the state of
Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...
,
Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
, settled by Italian immigrants from
Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...
. Its estimated population in 2020 was 3,337 inhabitants. It has an area of . Nova Bréscia is known as the capital of lies, making every two years the Festival of Lie. A person tries to tell the biggest lie, provided that it can leave the audience in doubt of its veracity.


Monument to the barbecue

Nova Bréscia is also known for offering the world the best Brazilian
barbecue Barbecue or barbeque (informally BBQ in the UK, US, and Canada, barbie in Australia and braai in South Africa) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods that use live fire and smoke t ...
in Brazil. The fame of the inhabitants is yielding to a very great tribute to the barbecue in the city center.


Gallery

File:Igrejadenovabrescia.JPG, Church in the city File:Borghetto10.JPG, Country File:Vistanb51.jpg, Partial view of the city File:Vista_NB_5.JPG, The pines are typical in the city of hills. File:Nova Brescia.JPG, The church at Christmas time File:avenidabento10.JPG, BSão Cristóvão File:Canyonsaocristovao.jpg, Canyon of São Cristóvão File:camponovabrescia.JPG, Fields File:estradasaocristovao2.JPG, São Cristóvão File:estradanovabrescia1.JPG, Street File:amazingviewnovabrescia.JPG, Amazing view File:Nova_Bréscia_4217.jpg, Country


See also

* List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul


References

Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub