FEEL THE VIBE

Men and their horses.

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In the 17th and 18th centuries, the more than 1,000 km that separate southern Brazil from Minas Gerais had to be constantly traveled to transport goods.

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Ride. Travel. Freedom. Responsibility. The moving days. The vastness of the Brazilian territory. That was the life of the tropeiro.

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Many trips. Many laps. Many goodbyes. Many reunions. A sequence of the same days, in different landscapes.

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They overcame loneliness, in the company of other tropeiros, creating their own rituals, playing and remembering their songs, their traditions. Welcoming each other.

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Modernity extinguished the tropeiro profession, but the marks of companionship and camaraderie remain very strong in the blood of the gaucho people. And it is to remember their traditions and relive the adventures of the drovers of old that a group of young people gather every year and cross, on horseback, part of the Serra Catarinense.

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Even today, long paths strengthen the bonds between them and help to remember what makes them unique and what forces them to come back. Every year.