Tourist Attractions & Monuments Brazil

Going to a market is a great way to get a few snapshots of local life. Traditions and lifestyles are on display in the open air. Here, on one side, you have the most popular handicraft market with typical products for sale: ceramics, embroidery, straw objects, hammocks... The prices are very attractive! On the other side of the square you will find the fruit and vegetable market, also very nice.

Building built from 1782 to 1787, which was used as a centre for gold taxes, local pesage and cast iron, and also as Prison prison. Today, it houses the Gold Ring Studies Centre, the Mint museum, and has exhibits of th- and th-century furniture and furnishings exhibitions, numismatic collections… and a terrible exhibition in the basement on the conditions of the slave detention. It shows the torture instruments, the chains and the balls in particular.

It is the last beach on the north coast accessible by car, one of the most famous because it offers a panoramic view. White sand and green panorama. Some dining options. A walk (with guide) leads to praia da Fome from this beach in 3 hours of hiking.

Only a few kilometres from the other great historical city of Pernambuco, Recife, the beautiful Olinda is itself covered with a white coat of churches. The wealth of temporal power often contributed to the wealth of temporal power, through the construction of those remarkable temples of faith that are the baroque churches and cathedrals. The cathedral of Olinda ("igreja da Sé", for "sede episcopal", or bishop's seat, ex-catedra) is a pearl of religious baroque. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife. The cathedral of Olinda - called Catedral de São Salvador do Mundo - which dominates the Alto do Sé square, was originally a simple chapel that was replaced in 1584 by a solid building with several secondary chapels, on the initiative of Antonio Barreiro, the third bishop of Brazil. Raised to the status of a cathedral in 1676, at the time of the creation of the diocese, and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, the cathedral, sober and in typical Portuguese colonial style, is today an emblematic architectural element of Olinda's old centre. In addition to admiring some beautiful murals and altars decorated with gold leaf, you can enjoy a fantastic view of Olinda and Recife in the distance, surrounded by lush vegetation. The Sé church is also the Sé square, one of the city's postcards and perhaps one of the most famous views in the Nordeste and in Brazil as a whole.

The Praça São Francisco is a must in Aracaju. It is the symbol of the city. Since 2010 the square is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a group of several public and private buildings built at the time when the Portuguese and Spanish crowns were united, between 1580 and 1640, but also remarkable buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries. One can admire the Igreja do Convento de São Francisco and its museum of sacred art, or the former Palácio Provincial now transformed into a historical museum.

From the church of Nosso Senhor do Bonfim, you can walk along the hill to discover a panorama on the city. Following the main street you go down to Boa Viagem beach. On the road (about 1 km from Bonfim) you can take a stopover at the Fort São Felipe (or Forte of Nossa Senhora Monte Levels), fortress of the th century with white white walls and rounded turrets adorned with old cannons.