State of Pernambuco - Northeast of Brazil

It was the scene of bloody fights against the Dutch that occupied the region for more than two decades, Pernambuco is one of the Brazilian states where some of the most epic scenes of the history of Brazil took place. The state conserves tracks of the period in which it became rich thanks to the sugar cane production and its capital, Recife, incarnates a perfect synthesis between new and the old thing. The past colonial one mixes in his streets and monuments with the modernity of a metropolis.

Pernambuco formed absorbing a range of native traditions of the black, the Indian and the European, that were mixed giving rise to the local culture. The civilization of the sugar, the great house and senzala, the privileged nature, the conquest of barren territories of sertão, all that contributed to a rich cultural, present crucible in the plastic Literature, music, arts, the popular crafts, the dances, the beliefs and the condiments of the local kitchen. These traditions are conserved and the religious celebrations attract multitudes. The majors expressions of the pernambucano folklore are the dances and the rates, like maracatu (comparsa of carnival), cuadrilha, ciranda and the fandango. None of them, nevertheless, so associated to Pernambuco as frevo.

In years 90, trinomio constituted by the emergent activity of the tourism, irrigated agriculture and the Harbor Complex of Suape, still projects plus the pernambucana economy in the national set. The tourism has like main pole of development: the project Dourada Coast. This program, carried out by the initiative deprived in collaboration with the federal government and those of the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas, intends to equip from infrastructure to the coast in the section between Cabo of Santo Agostinho (South of Pernambuco) and Bar of Santo Antônio (North of Alagoas), to operate the natural tourist potentialities of the region.

Recife, the State Capital of Pernambuco was born in the sickle of the rivers Capibaribe and Beberibe, in 1548, like a town of fishermen, but immediately it grew and it became soothes of the government in the period in which the Dutch occupied the Northeast of Brazil. Is known it like “Brazilian Venice�? by its bridges, channels and rivers; only in center of the city 39 bridges exist that cross more than 50 channels. The pernambucana capital mixture the past and the present.

Recife is also the capital of frevo in Brazil. In Carnivals, the Gallic group gives Dawn abre the celebrations and drags to more of a million people by the streets of the city - that group appears in the Guiness book for being considered the greater carnival group of the world. In the pernambucana capital, the art and the culture soak the life generally and they are reflected in the colonial architecture, with its houses, old churches and forts.

Beach of Boa Viagem, is most famous of the capital.
Museu do Northeastern Homem do, a significant encounter sends to the visitor the past, the culture of at the most genuine sugar and of the pernambucano popular art.
Patio of São Pedro, with colonial houses of centuries XVIII and XIX around the Cathedral of São Pedro.
The old jail has been transformed into a center of popular culture, with stores of embroiders, carpets, crafts of toots and straw, embroiderings and ceramic.
To 16 kilometers of Recife, to borders of the Capibaribe river, is the study/museum of the plastic artist Francisco Brennand, in an old one I devise of sugar recovered by him. This museum is also called “Cathedral of the Art�?, and in him 2,000 pieces of the artist are exhibited.

First capital of Pernambuco, Olinda, set afire by the Dutch and reconstructed later, is considered one of the cradles of the Brazilian culture. That condition and its architecture, of most representative of the colonial period, took to UNESCO to declare it in 1982 Natural and Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity. Their imposing churches and the mysteries of to their approach us monasteries the rich and dynamic cultural life that always it has had. The city extends by 7 hills, and a stroll on foot by its streets and slopes transmits magic and spell.

Porto de Galinhas, to 53 kilometers of Recife, is a crystalline water paradise that forms swimming pools, with bars and restaurants, in the shade of coconut palms.
For the nautical practice of sport we recommended: Maria Farinha, Igarassu and island of Itamaracá
Beaches of Calhetas and Gaibu, excellent places to enjoy the nature in almost wild state.
Near the capital, in a paradisiac scene, two National Historical Park Guararapes remembers the rivalries by the disputes of the territory.
Vila Velha and the Forte Orange, in the island of Itamaracá, is two of the expresivas representations of the passage of the Dutch by Pernambuco. There, 13 guns that aim towards the sea, and the colonial architecture, represented by the church and the collection of houses conserved, constitutes the scene of the battles joined in century XVII between the Colonizing Portuguese and the Dutch invaders.
In Goiana, churches, monuments and old talents conserve the memory of the period of gold of the civilization of the sugar cane.
To 550 kilometers of Recife (little more than 1 flight hour), the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha is formed by 21 islands and small barren islands, that appear of the ocean floor, to a depth of 4,000 M.s They are 26 km2s of wild nature and rigorously practically conserved. Fernando de Noronha is the main island, filled with natural viewpoints that allow to descry all the beauty of the place. The unique one is lived and has 16 sand beaches blanquísimas, waters I am transparent and tibias, banks of fish of colors and dolphins. Natural swimming pools, marine turtles, seaweed and sponges complete the dream landscape. The archipelago is a true paradise for the lovers of the diving: their crystalline waters, with a visibility of 50 M.s, allow the visitor to know 15 the 18 species of existing chorales in the planet, or simply to contemplate riquísima marine fauna. An Earth paradise.