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Another key event in Gramado is Natal Luz, when Gramado is decked out in lights and wreaths made of recycled material by local residents.

Roberto Santos died of a heart attack at the São Paulo airport in 1987, just after returning from the Festival of Gramado, where Quincas Borba was shown and heavily criticized by a clique of critics.

Gramado was originally settled in 1875 by Portuguese immigrants.

At this time, Gramado was an unincorporated township within the municipality of Taquara.

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Some known towns near Nova Petrópolis are Caxias do Sul, Novo Hamburgo, São Leopoldo, Feliz, Gramado, Canela.

Gramado is one of the towns along the scenic route known as Rota Romântica.

Gramado is also known by hydrangeas blossoming in late spring.

Lago Negro ( Black Lake ) is the most known, visited green area of Gramado.

The cities of Nova Petrópolis, Gramado, Canela, and São Francisco de Paula are also included in the Região das Hortênsias, one of Brazil's tourist hot spots and very popular throughout the country in the winter and holiday seasons, for its breathtaking scenery, rich European cultural heritage and picturesque architecture.

Like sister town Gramado, Canela is a large tourist draw during the winter, where snowfall can occur, and during the Christmas holiday and the local town council deck Canela with lights and other festive decorations.

The Festival de Gramado ( or Gramado Film Festival ) Gramado, Brazil along with the Guadalajara International Film Festival in Guadalajara, Mexico are considered to be the most important film festivals of Latin America.

In 2009 Dreamland Wax Museum opened in Gramado, in the south of Brazil.

In 1982 she won the Kikito trophy for Best Actress for her performance in Luz del Fuego at the Gramado Film Festival.

The film's 2004 awards include best screenplay at the Cartagena Film Festival and a nomination for best film ; a special jury award at the Gramado Film Festival ; and an award for best editing at the Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival.

Other cities on the Rota Romântica are São Leopoldo, Estância Velha, Ivoti, Dois Irmãos, Morro Reuter, Santa Maria do Herval, Presidente Lucena, Picada Café, Nova Petrópolis, Gramado, Canela and São Francisco de Paula.

Julio Medem also received the Audience Award at the 2000 Athens International Film Festival and the Audience Award for Best Latin Film at the Gramado Film Festival.

* Gramado Film Festival: Eduardo Abelin Trophy ; 2005.

* Gramado Film Festival: Best Latin Actress for Son of the Bride, 2002.

Lumi Cavazos ( born December 21, 1968 ) is a Mexican actress who won the Best Actress awards at the Tokyo Film Festival, and Brazil ’ s Festival de Gramado for her portrayal of " Tita " in the 1993 adaptation of Laura Esquivel ’ s Mexican novel, Like Water for Chocolate.

Gramado is a municipality and small touristic town, southeast of Caxias do Sul and east of Nova Petrópolis in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the Serra Gaúcha region.

Most of the population of Gramado is of German or Italian descent.

Gramado hosts the Festival de Gramado, a major South American film festival and Gramado's most important event.

A railway arrived in Gramado in 1921, boosting the local economy.

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