Viana

Viana is a municipality in the kingdom of Espirito Santo, Brazil. It is located 18 km southwest of Vitoria on the street to Minas Gerais. Its populace was 59,458 2005 and its location is 312 km2. Though it is part of the Greater Vitoria metropolitan vicinity, it nonetheless keeps a miles more laid-back feeling. Marked by way of its first church devoted to Nossa Senhora da Conceicao constructed on March 22, 1817 atop a touch mound inside the center of the town all folks who pass it on their way to and from Minas Gerais appreciate its implementing landmark. The city additionally has a railway museum at the railway station inaugurated on 13 July 1895 by the English.

The municipality borders Vitoria, Cariacica, Domingos Martins and Guarapari. In 1846, 39 families from North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate then known as Rheinpreussen in German, or Prussia Renana in Portuguese arrived at Vitoria at the twenty first of December to settle what is now Viana, as this was the first allotted land they acquired from the government. In 1857, although, most of them moved directly to discovered Santa Isabel Colony on 27 January 1857. In the 1890s, Viana changed into a rich colony of specially Azorean immigrants. In 1891 Santa Isabel became a municipality impartial from Viana in what used to be its mountainous place. In 1961, the metropolis turned into made the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Viana.