Santo Amaro – Torreão – Encruzilhada Neighborhoods

The Santo Amaro neighborhood begins at the border with the Boa Vista neighborhood and offers unknown and Little explored attractions as the Aurora Wharf, the Lima Street, which has several restaurants, Tortura Nunca Mais monument and Bom Jesus da Redenção cemetery, better known as Santo Amaro Cemetery, vey visited because of its works of art. It is also possible to find the Pernambuco Evangelical Church, the oldest in the Northeast Region, the Pernambuco Conservatory of Music, the Solar do Visconde de Suassuna, the Ingleses Cemetery and the Conceição dos Artistas church.

In Torreão Neighborhood, there is the Municipal School of Frevo, where it is possible to have free dance classes. In the neighborhood there are also popular and traditional restaurants such as the Bar do Patinho and the Bar do Tonhão, very frequented by the Recife people. In Encruzilhada Neighborhood the highlight is the Public Market, with its commerce and restaurants that have made the place famous. It is worth to get to the Hippodrome Square and getting to know the group Guerreiros do Passo, who give frevo classes in the square and make graceful presentations with their dance team.