TOURS IN PERNAMBUCO

RECIFE SHOPPING - PERNAMBUCO

The diversity of the trade in Recife allows the city to be one of the most important centers of purchasing tourism in the Northeast. Our itinerary has three perfect places for you to buy something special, to enchant your friends, by offering them a souvenir, and even make good business. At Mercado São José, a truly tropical Baghdad that functions in a beautiful building made out of iron dating from 1875, 542 small shops display a great variety of products, such as clothes, booklets of cordel literature, herbs, regional pastries, hammocks, shoes and articles of umbanda (Brazilian-Afro spiritualist religion).

At Casa da Cultura, established in the building of the ancient Penitentiary (1855), an exhibition of the diversified handicrafts of the northeast, congregating figurative and utilitarian pottery, lacework and embroidery, leather items, tresses, carvings, hammocks, mats and a countless number of other interesting kinds of work. In Boa Viagem, a visit to the Shopping Center Recife, megamall of the region and nowadays one of the largest in the country, with 8 anchor stores, 465 satellite stores and 4 Squares of fast-food. In the gardens of the Mall in an area of 19.000m ², the Patio of The Sculptures, with pieces that reflect a wide range of subjects and techniques. At this real museum in the great outdoors, you will find one of the most representative collections of contemporary art in Brazil, especially that of the Northeast.