The Beginning
When in 1870 Dr. João Sertório used to create the colonies of Conde D’Eu and Dona Isabel, within 32 square leagues of unoccupied earth of the Province, for sure he had already had in mind in that place it may have lived the first Italian immigrants brought for the north-east region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Those immigrants were establishing themselves on the coast of the road which was a way from Maratá to the shore of Rio das Antas. In 1876 the president of the province, Dr. José Antônio de Azevedo Castro said in his speech, in the occasion of the opening of 16ª Sessão Legislativa, that during the period from 1859 to 1875, 729 Italian immigrants had entered.
From that beginning on in less than a century a magnificent region was developed, highly populated with the highest standard people in the country. On the 22nd of January in 1931, at Borges de Medeiros Club, in Garibaldi Village, with the presence of Dr. Paulo Monteiro de Barros, helper of the 17º Distrito Agrícola and of the correspondent newspapers of the Capital of the estate, the wine growers created the Cooperativa Agrícola Garibaldi.