Florianopolis municipality has 406.564 habitants, which is comparable to Antwerp city in Belgium. The city offers everything you desire from a city, yet remains of a very human size, contrary to many other Latin American cities. The metro area of Florianopolis has 821.423 habitants.
The below video from Gabriel Sandalo, a Brazilian skater gives a very good feel of the citymood of Florianopolis.
Florianopolis received quite some press coverage in 2008, but also 2009 kicks of well with Florianopolis being voted as one of the 44 places to go to in 2009; Floripa ranks nr. 24.
The Brazilian Ironman is organised in Florianopolis every year. It takes places on the last day of May. The race course is beautiful: the 3,8km swim is on the beach of Jurere International, then the 180km on bike existing of 2 laps going all the way down to the Southern part of the island and the 42,19 km run to Canasvieras. If it were not for the swimming part…
Florianopolis is undoubtedly one of the finest surfing spots in the world. You’ll be able to read reviews on all the beaches of Florianopolis on this website under the tag “beaches”. For now a video of Bruno Maya at Campeche Beach:
