Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Recife, Brazil

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 6.3 km
Ascend 94 m
Descend 91 m

Explore Recife in Brazil with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in RecifeIndividual Sights in Recife

Sight 1: Estação Ferroviária Central (Capibaribe)

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Museu do Trem is a railway museum in the city of Recife, capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. It is considered the first of its kind in Brazil and the second of its kind in Latin America.

Wikipedia: Museu do Trem (Recife) (PT)

256 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Casa da Cultura

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The House of Culture is a center for the commercialization of handicrafts 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.

Wikipedia: Casa da Cultura (Recife) (PT), Website

941 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 3: Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães

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Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães José Paulo Lacerda/CNI / CC BY 3.0 br

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.

Wikipedia: Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães (PT)

582 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Saint Isabel Theather

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Saint Isabel Theather

Santa Isabel Theater is located in the Brazilian city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco state.

Wikipedia: Santa Isabel Theater (EN), Website

282 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Museu Franciscano de Arte Sacra

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The Franciscan Museum of Sacred Art is a Brazilian museum located in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco. It is dedicated to the preservation of objects of worship and sacred art.

Wikipedia: Museu Franciscano de Arte Sacra (PT)

79 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Capela Dourada

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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.

Wikipedia: Capela Dourada (EN)

361 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Igreja de Santo Antônio

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The Mother Church of the Blessed Sacrament of St. Anthony is a Roman Catholic church 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)

180 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição dos Militares

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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)

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Palácio da Boa Vista

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Palácio da Boa Vista

The Redoubt of Boa Vista, also called Boa Vista Palace 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 Boa Vista Bridge, in the City of Mauritius, currently the neighborhood of Santo Antônio do Recife, on the coast of the state of Pernambuco. in Brazil.

Wikipedia: Reduto da Boa Vista (PT)

143 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Basílica do Carmo

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The Church of Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Venerable Third Order of Mount Carmel is a Roman Catholic church located in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco, Brazil.

Wikipedia: Igreja da Ordem Terceira do Carmo (Recife) (PT)

330 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Igreja de São Pedro

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The Co-Cathedral of St. Peter of Clerics Also Recife Co-Cathedral It is a Catholic church located in the city of Recife, state of Pernambuco in the South American country of Brazil.

Wikipedia: Co-Cathedral of Recife (EN)

684 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: Museu da Cidade do Recife

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The Museum of the City of Recife is a Brazilian museum located in Recife, the capital of Pernambuco.

Wikipedia: Museu da Cidade do Recife (PT), Website

953 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 13: Church of the Divine Holy Spirit

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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 da Ilha de Antônio Vaz, in the current neighborhood of Santo Antônio do Recife, on the coast of the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.

Wikipedia: Igreja do Divino Espírito Santo (Recife) (PT)

580 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 14: Igreja Matriz Madre de Deus

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The Madre de Deus Church is a Roman Catholic church 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 St. Philip Neri in Brazil, to which it was connected through the extinct cloister.

Wikipedia: Igreja Madre de Deus (Recife) (PT)

529 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 15: Paço do Frevo

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Paço do Frevo is a cultural space dedicated to dissemination, research, leisure and training in the areas of frevo dance and music located in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco, Brazil. It came about through a partnership between the City of Recife, the Roberto Marinho Foundation, IPHAN and the Federal Government.

Wikipedia: Paço do Frevo (PT), Website

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Malakoff Tower

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Malakoff Tower Ricardo André Frantz (User:Tetraktys) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Malakoff Tower (EN)

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