 Major Nicoletti abandoned all his private properties evaluated on $500.000.000 at the time for, as he said, "the wellness of the collectivity"

The city was founded in September 1912, but only registered on 17 January 1913, under the Act number 139. Letters written by Major Nicoletti to Sir.Borges de Medeiros confirm that.The house where Gramado's first administrator lived in has been registered as a cultural patrimony and it's currently being restored due to the posterior installation of the most important social-cultural and historic source of the city.