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.

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

Gramado officially became a village in 1937, when Gramado was already known as a summer holiday resort.

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Gramado is also known by hydrangeas blossoming in late spring.

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

Gramado became a municipality on December 15, 1954 by force of State Act 2, 522 .< ref name =" lei2522 ">" Lei Nº 2. 522, de 15 de Dezembro de 1954.

Gramado Government is in a strong mayor-council government model, as set forth by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988.

Executive powers are held by the Mayor of Gramado, who appoints a Cabinet, the heads of several municipal bodies and members of the Planning Commission.

Rio Grande do Sul State Road RS-235 within Gramado city limits-the road is lined by blue hydrangea flowers

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.

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

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

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.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

The solution reached in the agreement was more acceptable to the railroad than that originally included in a series of union demands.

First of all there was the parsonage, an utterly impossible place for civilized people to live in, originally poorly conceived, apparently not repaired for years, with no plumbing or sewage, with rat-holes and rot.

The work program, as it was originally proposed, was to take five years to complete.

The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.

A long book heavily weighted with military technicalities, in this edition it is neither so long nor so technical as it was originally.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In Europe, the discipline originated as ethnology and was originally defined as the study of social organization in non-state societies, later redefined as social anthropology.

TWX originally used the earlier five-bit Baudot code, which was also used by the competing Telex teleprinter system.

The " elf-shot " originally indicated disease or death attributed to the elves, but it was later attested denoting arrow-heads which were used by witches to harm people, and also for healing rituals.

Here we have an apotropaic situation, where a god originally bringing the plague was invoked to end it.

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the CGS system electromagnetic unit of current ( now known as the abampere ), the amount of current that generates a force of two dynes per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart.

The word archipelago was originally applied specifically to the Aegean Sea and its islands.

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.