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vindo! Willkommen! Welcome!
Bienvenido!
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The Description of
the City Recife,
Pernambuco, Brazil
- Hotel Pousada Peter
- Art Gallery
Recife is the capital of the Federal State Pernambuco of the country Brazil and
the biggest city in the northeast of Brazil. The distance from the Hotel Pousada Peter to the centre of the city Recife is only 6 kilometers. The next bus stop is 300 meters far from the Hotel Pousada Peter. From there, the bus Amparo leads to the city centre of Recife. Recife is the biggest cultural center of the northeast with services of all kinds, like the health service and the tourism with numerous first-class restaurants. Beside of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro is Recife the thirdbiggest city of Brazil and one of the trade centers of the country Brazil. Due to its geographical location to Africa and Europe Recife
was always one of the entrance portals of South America and Brazil
. In former times there was
a fleet of commercialships of the colonial power Portugal. Still today
there are enormous harbor facilities which shows the importance of Recife as place of transshipment and commercial town.Nowadays for the airlines is Recife the first station from Europe to South America. Recifes International Airport (Aeroporto dos Guararapes), nonstop approached by many capitals of Europe, is one of the most important starting points for the flight over the Atlantic. Hotel Pousada Peter is 27 kilometers distant from the International Airport Recife.
Recife has become their name from shell reefs, which are pre-aged to the coast. Recife extends over 3 islands away. Before occupation by the dutchmen in the year 1627 there was a labyrinth of sumps and lay islands. Everyone of this islands has its special function. Thus the port and the large commercial centres lie on Santo Antônio, while the public administration takes your seat on the island Recife.
Among the dutchmen there was freedom of religion and the
former Street
Rua dos Judeus (Street of the Jews)
from 1636 - 1654 was the first jewish cumunity of
Recife and Pernambuco. Today the name of this street is Rua
do Bom Jesús (Street of the Good Jesus). This formerly Jewish municipality of Recife
established the first Synagogue of the both Americas Kahal
Zur Israel. The Jews were driven out by the
Portuguese and immigrated to North America and settled and founded in New
Amsterdam, the today's New York. In the proximity of the Rua do Bom Jesús the
military tower Torre Malakoff is, established in the year 1855. Not far of the dock before the place
Praça Marco zero
they are boat trips in the evening from thursday to saturday. They lead
to Barra by until the Pina bay, of where one can enjoy a wonderful view of Olinda.In the quarter Bairro Sâo Jose is the restored building of the station Estação do Metrô (Terminalstation of the Subway) with the Museu do Trem (Museum of the Train). The Metrô drives from there to the Estação Rodoviaria, to the central bus station of the city Recife, where are arriving and leaving all of the buses to other Cities and States of Brazil. Oppositely is the restored building Casa de Cultura (House of Culture), a former prison built from 1855 to 1857. In the prison