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The Oktoberfest is a festival of beer and a fair of products and entertainment originally held in Munich (München), the state of Bavaria (Bayern), in southern Germany, and spread over several places in the world. In Munich, the Oktoberfest begins in mid September and ends two weeks later, on the first Sunday in October - hence the name Oktoberfest (In German, “Oktober” means October, and “Fest”, party or festival). In Brazil, the festival is held in Blumenau / SC, Santa Cruz do Sul / RS, Igrejinha / RS, and other cities.

Santa Catarina

The Oktoberfest in Blumenau attracts tourists from Brazil and abroad, especially from Germany, but also in neighboring countries of South America and North America. According to the official website of the event, in 2005, Oktoberfest in Blumenau, attracted around 600 thousand visitors who consumed more than 260 thousand liters of beer.

The participants of the parade include groups of dance (Tanzgruppe) national and international companies, shot to the target (Schützenvereinen), whereas the latter has its roots in Germany and have a history of over eight hundred years. Also participating companies in the corner of floats, and others. However, always dominate the costumes typical Germanic (Trachten) much beer (Bier) and food typical of the German-Brazilians (Deutschbrasilianer).

Blumenau is not the only city catarinense to celebrate a big party in October. Cities such as Brusque, Timber, Jaraguá South, Itapiranga (which was the first to hold Oktoberfest) and many others, including locations above the hills, celebrating festivals in the same manner as basic.

Rio Grande do Sul

In Rio Grande do Sul, the Oktoberfest is held in various cities like Santa Cruz do Sul, Igrejinha, Cerro Largo (Oktoberfest-missions, to be located in the Mission), Gate, São Lourenço do Sul (Südoktoberfest that means Oktoberfest of south), Frederico Westphalen, Alpestre and Marathi.

The largest are the Oktoberfest de Santa Cruz do Sul, which is held since 1985 and brings together about 450,000 people every edition and Oktoberfest in Igrejinha held since 1988, which is considered the biggest party community and philanthropy in Brazil (3,000 people, the representing over 10% of the population of the city, working voluntarily in the event), and only in 2005 were consumed more than 200 thousand liters of beer in nine days of celebration, and after the event to AMIFEST the organization that organizes, distributed more than $ 1,300,000.00 to entities welfare of the entire metropolitan region.

Paraná

The largest Oktoberfest of Parana, is in Marechal Cândido Rondon, west of the state, with the presence of more than 30 thousand people per year, which would not be for less because the city is known as the most Germanic of Paraná. Other major festivals also take place in Rolândia, Pato Bragado and Ponta Grossa (München Fest). A (München Fest) stands out as a good choice of entertainment, it has various shows of renowned national and a large public, which in 2006 exceeded 100 thousand people.