Vila Zelina

Vila Zelina is a neighborhood located in São Paulo, Brazil, best known for the great number of 14 countries of Eastern Europe immigrants and descendants that have settled there in the early twentieth century, being the one of the greatest colony outside Lithuania.
The neighborhood has a great number of Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Belarusian, Czech, Croatian, Slovenian, Slovakian and Polish immigrants.
In a monthly basis the local neighbors and commercials association named AMOVIZA organize an open air East European immigrants handcraft and gastronomy fair at Aracati Mirim Street on Sundays. The East European immigrants helped to develop Vila Zelina since their foundation on 27 / October / 1927 . Mr. Carlos Corkisko,a Russian immigrant, was one of the key people that helped Vila Zelina during their colonization by East European immigrants. October is Vila Zelina's anniversary where have being commemorated in an open air party with typical east European food, folkloric dance and music shows and handcrafts.