Fort Santa Barbara
The Santa Bárbara Fort located on the South Bay embankment, in the center of the city of Florianópolis, was built in the mid-18th century to form the defensive complex of the southern Brazilian coast. Estreito and protect the village of Nossa Senhora do Desterro. Despite the scarcity of records at the time, it is likely that the building was designed around 1760 to contain invaders, if they managed to overcome the Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora da Conceição (of Araçatuba), to the south of the Island.
During the Federalist Revolution (1893-94), the building was used as the headquarters of the State Government (1893). In 1984, as a result of the controversy over its intended demolition, the fort was listed as National Historical and Artistic Heritage and in 1999, the Port Authority agency located there was transferred to a new property, on the mainland, and the complex was ceded by the 5th Naval District to the municipality of Florianópolis, becoming home, in January 2001, to the headquarters of the Franklin Cascaes Cultural Foundation. In 2013, Fort Santa Bárbara returned to the management of the Brazilian Navy. In 2016, the Brazilian Navy carried out renovation work on the building, which now houses the Navy Cultural Center in Santa Catarina and the Naval Museum.
