President Milanović Meets with Governor and Mayor of São Paulo, Brazil’s Largest City

The President of the Republic Zoran Milanović, currently on an official visit to Brazil, visited São Paulo on Wednesday. In Brazil’s largest city, he met with the Governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas, and later with the Mayor of São Paulo, Ricardo Luis Reis Nunes.

São Paulo, the financial and economic hub of Brazil, is home to the largest Croatian community in the country. The Croatian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, founded in São Paulo last year, is among the organizations President Milanović will meet with. He is also scheduled to meet members of the Croatian diaspora and their descendants, approximately 80,000 of whom reside in Brazil, with the largest concentration in São Paulo.

São Paulo hosts two major Croatian societies: Croatia Sacra Paulistana (SACRA) and Sociedade Amigos da Dalmacia (Friends of Dalmatia Society – SADA). Additionally, there is an initiative to establish another Croatian association, the Croatia-Brazil Society in Paraná, aimed at gathering Croatian descendants living in Curitiba and its surrounding areas. “The Croatian community in Brazil has existed for more than a century, and I am extremely glad to meet them,” said President Milanović ahead of his arrival in São Paulo.

PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia / Tomislav Bušljeta