TOURS IN PERNAMBUCO

RECIFE ARTS & CULTURE (CULTURAL TOUR)

You have an appointment with the art and the culture of Pernambuco. At the Ceramics Museum and Oficina Francisco Brennand, installed in the lands of the former Engenho São João, (St. John sugar mill), with a collection of more than two thousand works of the prominent artist. Sculptures, paintings and ceramics, exotic inhabitants of fantastic shapes distributed in an area of 15.000m ², inside old warehouses or outdoors, perfectly integrated to nature. In the main courtyard, Brennand created a set that has the magic of a temple, in which he mixed lakes, totems, columns, high walls entirely covered in ceramic and a hybrid architecture, exotic and sort of delirious, with a visual impact untranslatable into words. In the Ricardo Brennand Institute, installed in the lands of the former Engenho São João includes permanent works in its collection of Franz Post, Jean Baptiste Debret, Facchinetti, Eliseu Visconti, among other painters, and a library with 10 thousand volumes, French tapestries, Italian sculptures, English furniture, medieval armors and melee weapons of the 16th century. The House-Museum Gilberto Freyre and Magdalena (Gilberto Freyre Foundation), keeps records of life and remarkable achievements of the writer and sociologist, author of works such as Casa Grande & Senzala (The Masters and the Slaves: A study in the development of Brazilian civilization) and Sobrados e Mucambos (New World in the Tropics: The Culture of Modern Brazil).

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The following is a visit to the Museum of The Man of The Northeast, the center of reference of the region. With a permanent exhibition of 3,500 pieces and documents, the museum offers a journey that connects past and present. The first stage emphasizes the native indians, whose culture is shown in archaeological and anthropological contexts; Then, the main aspects of the colonial life in the Northeast. The Luso-African-American world shares spaces with the Flemish Brazil; and so, appears the landscapes created in the monoculture of sugar cane. We are including the social cultural manifestations of the region, such as the informal economy, the popular art, craft, the celebrations of the people and their religiosity, including elements of the worship of Xangô.