Viana is a town and municipality in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. It is located 18km southwest of Vitória on the road to Minas Gerais. Though it is considered part of the Greater Vitória metropolitan area, it still maintains a much more laid-back feeling. Marked by its first church dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Conceição (built 22nd of March 1817) atop a little mound in the middle of the town all those who pass it on their way to and from Minas Gerais appreciate its imposing landmark. The town also has a railway museum at the railway station inaugurated on 13th of July 1895 by the English. The municipality borders Vitória (E), Cariacica (N), Domingos Martins (W) and Guarapari (S). png version of Espirito Santo Map with Viana Municipality Highlighted. ... For other places that have this name, see Espírito Santo (disambiguation) Espírito Santo is one of the states of southeastern Brazil, often referred to by the abbreviation ES. With its capital at Vitória. ... Colonial building which today is seat to the Vitória Prefectural Government Vitória is the capital of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. ... Minas Gerais is one of the states of Brazil, the second most populous in the federation. ... Greater Vitória is an administrative entity made up of the following municipalities: Serra, Vitória, Vila Velha, Cariacica and Viana according to IBGE and it has an approximate area of 1. ... Minas Gerais is one of the states of Brazil, the second most populous in the federation. ... Colonial building which today is seat to the Vitória Prefectural Government Vitória is the capital of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. ... Cariacica is a town and municipality in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. ... Domingos Martins is the name of a municipality and its capital. ... Guarapari is a coastal town on the coast of Espírito Santo, Brazil. ...

History

In 1846, 39 families from North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate (then known as Rheinpreussen in German, or Prússia Renana in Portuguese) arrived at Vitória on the 21st of December to settle what is now Viana, as this was the first allotted land they received from the government. In 1857, though, most of them moved on to found Santa Isabel Colony in the 27th of January 1857. With eighteen million inhabitants inhabiting 34,080 km² in western-northwestern Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia (German Nordrhein-Westfalen) is largest in population though only fourth in area among Germanys sixteen federal states, and contains about 22% of Germanys GDP. The capital is Düsseldorf. ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... Santa Isabel may be: Santa Isabel Island, an island in the Solomon Islands Santa Isabel, Brazil, a town in Brazil Santa Isabel (volcano), a volcano in Colombia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In the 1890s, Viana was a prosperous colony of mainly Azorean immigrants. In 1891 Santa Isabel became a municipality independent from Viana in what used to be its mountainous region. Flag of Azores Shaded relief map of the Azores from 1975 The Azores (Portuguese: Açores) are an archipelago of Portuguese islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America. ... Santa Isabel may be: Santa Isabel Island, an island in the Solomon Islands Santa Isabel, Brazil, a town in Brazil Santa Isabel (volcano), a volcano in Colombia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...