19 Sights in Recife, Brazil (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Recife, Brazil! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Recife. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Recife
The Mother Church of the Blessed Sacrament of Saint Anthony is a Roman Catholic temple in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Located in the Santo Antônio neighborhood, it is one of the most significant examples of Brazilian Baroque architecture.
Wikipedia: Igreja Matriz do Santíssimo Sacramento de Santo Antônio (PT)
2. Casa da Cultura
The Casa da Cultura is a handicraft trading center in the city of Recife, capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. It operates in the building of the former Recife House of Detention, which was the largest prison in Brazil in the nineteenth century and the first panoptic radial prison in South America. It was also, during the Civil-Military Dictatorship, one of the dens of torture and murder, one of its highlights being Amaro Luiz de Carvalho.
3. Museu da Abolição
The Museum of Abolition — Reference Center for Afro-Brazilian Culture is a museum located in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco, Brazil. Linked to the Brazilian Institute of Museums (IBRAM) and the Ministry of Culture, it is one of the rare museums in the country to contemplate this part of history, and its actions are guided by the principles of the new museology and socio-museology.
4. Museu do Homen do Nordeste
The Museum of the Man of the Northeast is a Brazilian museum located in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco. The Museum of the Man of the Northeast – Muhne – is a federal agency, which brings together collections that reveal the plurality of black, indigenous and white cultures from our origins to the different developments and mixtures that form what is now generically called Brazilian culture. Being part of the Documentation Institute of the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, its museological and museographic conception was inspired by the concept of regional museum, idealized by sociologist-anthropologist Gilberto Freyre.
5. Zoológico Dois Irmãos
The Zoo Botanical Park Dois Irmãos, is located in the city of Recife, state of Pernambuco - Brazil. The park has an area of 384.4 hectares, 14 of which is dedicated for the Zoo Botanical and a Natural Science Museum, and the remaining area for an Atlantic Forest reserve. This park offers to the visitors the possibility to know about the local ecosystems, plants and wildlife. It has about 650 animals - birds, reptiles and mammals - from more than 120 species. It is the most representative Zoo in the North/Northeast region of Brazil, highlighted by events and pioneers innovative activities in areas such environmental education and breeding animals in captivity. Also in this park, nature knowledge is acquired through experience and direct contact with animals, making the Zoo no longer just a window of animals to become a Nature conservation center. The park was founded in 1916, in the land of engenho Dois Irmãos, owned by Antonio and Tomas Lins Caldas.
6. Museu do Estado
The Museu do Estado de Pernambuco (MEPE) is housed in a 19th-century mansion on the Av. Rui Barbosa in Recife, capital of Pernambuco state, Brazil. It was opened in 1929. The museum collections contain over 12 thousand works of art which invite the visitor to a journey into the local history, from pictures of Colonial Brazil and the period of the Dutch invasion (1630–1654), to those of the 20th and 21st centuries.
7. Farol do Recife
The Recife lighthouse or Barra lighthouse is a lighthouse in Recife in Brazil, located on the southern breakwater of Recife, in the ruins of the old fort of São Francisco da Barra, of which only the lighthouse itself remains, in the state of Pernambuco.
8. Oficina Brennand
The Francisco Brennand Ceramics Workshop is a Brazilian Art Museum located in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco. It was created by the Pernambuco artist who names the architectural ensemble, Francisco Brennand.
9. Malakoff Tower
Malakoff Tower is a tower located in Recife Antigo, Recife. This monument was built between 1835 and 1855 to be used as an observatory and as the main entrance and gateway for Arsenal da Marinha square. It has been registered as a Historical Patrimony and was named after a similar monument on the Crimean peninsula, used as a defense center for Sevastopol on the Crimean war. When the arsenals of the Navy were dismantled with the beginning of the Brazilian Republic, the tower was transferred to the heritage of Recife port and then abandoned and endangered. The city population, in association with cultural institutions leadership, mobilized against the demolition, using as an example the real strength of Malakoff on the Crimean war.
10. Capela Dourada
The Capela Dourada, also called Capela dos Noviços, is a chapel of the Franciscan Order located in the city of Recife, capital of the Pernambuco State, Brazil within the set of buildings of the Convent and Church of Santo Antônio, that includes the Church of the Ordem Terceira de São Francisco and the Franciscan Museum of Religious Art.
11. Palácio da Boa Vista
The Redoubt of Boa Vista, also called Palácio da Boa Vista or Schoonzicht, in Dutch, was built on the Island of Antônio Vaz, at the mouth of the Cabibaribe River, oriented to the west (west), facing the mainland and next to the primitive Ponte da Boa Vista, in Cidade Mauritius, current Bairro de Santo Antônio do Recife, on the coast of the state of Pernambuco, in Brazil.
12. Igreja Matriz Madre de Deus
The Madre de Deus Church is a Roman Catholic temple in the city of Recife, capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. It is located next to the building of the former Convent of the Oratorian Fathers, the first convent of the Order of Saint Philip Neri in Brazil, to which it was connected through the extinct cloister.
13. Praça do Entroncamento
Praça do Entroncamento is a square located in the neighborhood of Graças, Recife, Pernambuco. It was designed and built in 1925 in front of what was once Delmiro Gouveia's hotel and was part of his recreational project.
14. Catedral Anglicana do Bom Samaritano
The Anglican Cathedral of the Good Samaritan, also known as the Church of the Good Samaritan, was a temple owned by the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil in the city of Recife, Pernambuco. Located at Rua José Maria de Miranda, nº 560, in the Boa Viagem neighborhood, it was part of the Anglican Diocese of Recife, being inaugurated on February 10, 1990.
15. Paço do Frevo
Paço do Frevo is a cultural space dedicated to the diffusion, research, leisure and training in the areas of frevo dance and music located in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco, Brazil. It emerged through a partnership between the Recife City Hall, the Roberto Marinho Foundation, IPHAN and the Federal Government.
16. Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição dos Militares
The Church of Our Lady of the Conception of the Military is an 18th-century Roman Catholic church in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. It is located on Rua Nova in the historic center of Recife and is under the administration of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife. The church was listed as a historic structure by the National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute in 1941.
Wikipedia: Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição dos Militares (EN)
17. Church of the Divine Holy Spirit
The Church of the Divine Holy Spirit of Recife, consecrated to Our Lady of Ó, formerly of the Jesuit College of Recife, built between 1686 and 1690 on the Calvinist Church of the French of Recife, is today a Catholic temple belonging to the Venerable Brotherhood of the Divine Holy Spirit of Recife, located in Parque Dezessete of the Island of Antônio Vaz, in the current Bairro de Santo Antônio do Recife, on the coast of the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
18. Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães
The Aloisio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art or MAMAM is a museum located in the city of Recife, capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. It is considered a reference center for the modern and contemporary production of the visual arts.
19. Estação Ferroviária Central (Capibaribe)
The Capiba Central Station/Train Museum is a railway museum in the city of Recife, capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. It is considered the first in Brazil and the second of its kind in Latin America.
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