Florianópolis

Where should I stay?

Where should I eat?

• Mercado Público de Florianópolis · Centro · Food market: The 19th-century public market downtown, with seafood stalls, bars and snack counters popular for an after-work beer and pastel.
• Box 32 · Centro · Seafood bar: A long-running bar inside the Mercado Público known for shrimp pastéis, oysters and cachaça.
• Ostradamus · Ribeirão da Ilha · Oysters and seafood: A well-known waterfront restaurant in the island's oyster-farming village, serving local oysters fresh, gratinated and steamed.
• Rancho Açoriano · Ribeirão da Ilha · Oysters and seafood: A traditional seafood house in Ribeirão da Ilha known for oyster platters and Azorean-style fish dishes by the bay.
• Bar do Arante · Pântano do Sul · Seafood: A beachfront seafood restaurant whose walls are covered with thousands of notes left by visitors since the 1960s.

What should I do?

• Lagoa da Conceição · Lagoa da Conceição: A lagoon-side neighborhood in the middle of the island with restaurants, bars, kitesurfing and boat rides across the water.
• Ponte Hercílio Luz · Centro: The 1926 suspension bridge linking the island to the mainland, reopened to pedestrians and cyclists and lit up at night.
• Santo Antônio de Lisboa · Santo Antônio de Lisboa: A historic Azorean fishing village with colonial houses, an 18th-century church and seafood restaurants facing the sunset over the bay.
• Dunas da Joaquina · Joaquina: Large sand dunes next to Joaquina beach where you can rent a board and try sandboarding.
• Trilha da Lagoinha do Leste · Pântano do Sul: A forest hiking trail of about two hours to a remote beach and freshwater lagoon reachable only on foot or by boat.
• Ilha do Campeche · Campeche / Armação: A protected island with clear water and prehistoric rock carvings, reached by boat with a daily visitor limit in summer.
• Fortaleza de Santa Cruz de Anhatomirim · Baía Norte (boats from Canasvieiras): An 18th-century Portuguese fortress on a small island in the north bay, usually visited on a schooner trip from Canasvieiras.
• Museu Histórico de Santa Catarina (Palácio Cruz e Sousa) · Centro: A pink 18th-century former governor's palace on the main square, now a museum of the state's history with original furnishings.