São Francisco do Sul is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. It covers an area of 540 km2 and had an estimated population of 53,746 in 2020.
Historic center of São Francisco do Sul
Santa Catarina is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It is located in the centre of the country's Southern region. It is bordered to the north by the state of Paraná, to the south by the state of Rio Grande do Sul, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west by the Argentine province of Misiones.
Arrival of the French, led by Gonneville, to the land that would later become São Francisco do Sul
Colonial settlement on the Island of Santa Catarina
Anita Garibaldi Museum, in Laguna, where the independence of the Juliana Republic was proclaimed
Contestado War: Army troops guarding a sawmill during a rebel attack in Três Barras.