Recife is the capital of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. In spite of Olinda, placed in the metropolitan area of Recife, to have been the first capital of the captaincy of Pernambuco, Recife is the capital older of Brazil, founded in 1537. Located in Oceano Atlantic's coast. He/she has an area of 218 km² and a population of 1,4 million people (or 3,5 million counting the metropolitan area). The Metropolitan Area of Recife is the largest of the Northeast Area of Brazil and Thursday of Brazil. As city, is among the first of the Northeast Area of Brazil, with a GDP of almost thirteen billion Real, richer city of the Area is considered. Recife is the largest Brazilian regional center in the trade section and of installment of services.

In Recife Rio Beberibe's encounter happens with Rio Capibaribe that you/they drain in the Oceano Atlântico. Surrounded by rivers and cut by bridges, Recife is full of islands and swamps that magnify its geography. It is known like Brazilian Venice - thanks to the fluvial likeness with the European city. Its metropolitan area understands the cidaTurismo City that keeps great historical-cultural wealth and beautiful urban beaches, Recife is stopped obligatory for tourists of the whole world. Especially for its cultural manifestations and the strength of the popular participation in the folkloric manifestations of the carnival, the city shows off interesting titles, as the one of integrating the largest carnival agremiação of the world - the Rooster of the Dawn.

The main tourist attractions in Recife and Metropolitan Area of healthy Recife: Atelier of ceramic arts (sculptures) of Francisco Brennand.
Architectural group of the Neighborhood of Old Recife.
Building of Paço of the Customs, recuperated to shelter a commercial center (Shopping Paço of the Customs).
Beach of Good Trip (the main urban beach).
Olinda (in the City sister Olinda, Historical Patrimony of the Humanity).
It marries of the Culture: souvenirs stores and craft.
Patio of São Pedro (Black Tuesday, Saturday Swamp and several other cultural manisfestações) Museum of the State Museum of Modern Art (they SUCKLE) Theater Santa Isabel Teatro of the Strong Park Orange, in the Island of Itamaracá.
Several churches and monuments historical Placed estrategicamente, the city shelters the largest airport of the Northeast of Brazil, being close of several beaches very sought about tourist points in the circunvizinhança, especially: Porto of Chickens, Ipojuca, Pernambuco (60 South km).
Tamandaré, Pernambuco (110 South km).
Itamaracá, Pernambuco (40 North km).
Maragogi, Alagoas (150 South km).
Beach of Pipe, Big Rio of the North (280 North km).
Tambaba, Conde, Paraíba (115 North km).
give of Great Recife.
Economy in agreement with data of IPEA of the year of 1996, GDP was esteemed in 8,25 billion Real, and there was not registration of activities based on the agriculture and in the pecuária (0,0%), the industry represented 16,5% and the section of the trade and services 83,4%. Per capita GDP was of 6.126,83 real.

In 2002, according to estimates of the IBGE, GDP had developed for R$ 11,410 billion and per capita GDP for R$ 7.822,00.

The city possesses several development poles. One of them is the medical pole, that one of the most important of Norte/Nordeste is considered and of Brazil. Formed by 417 hospitals and clinics, that medical pole offers a total of 8,2 thousand beds and, according to the Union of the Hospitals of Pernambuco, it registered in 2000 a revenue of R$ 220 million.

It is thanks to the pole that Pernambuco has more apparels of computerized tomography than countries as Canada or France. Good part of the modern hospitals that integrate the pole is located between the neighborhoods of Derby and Island of the Milk.

Another strong point in the city is the pole of development of called software Digital Porto that shelters several companies of technologies of the information.

Shopping Recife counts with 465 stores, ten movies rooms, eight restaurants, four feeding squares, and five thousand parking vacancies, being considered the largest center of purchases of Brazil. One of its big ones differentiates and attractiveness are the Patio of the Sculptures, one of the largest areas of multiple exhibitions of the Northeast. Where several works elaborated by artists from Pernambuco are presented and of another Brazilian areas. A pleasant space to go for a walk and to appreciate the art.

One of the largest prominences of the city is to strong industry of civil construction, second adult of the country, being behind just of São Paulo. According to Emporis, Recife has 631 sky-scrapers in construction (against 701 in São Paulo).



História
A cidade foi fundada pelos portugueses em 1537 e permaneceu portuguesa até a independência do Brasil, com a exceção de um período de ocupação holandesa no Século XVII, entre 1630 e 1654, a maior parte do tempo sob o governo de Maurício de Nassau ('Mauritsstad'). The village was elevated the villa and advice with the name of Santo Antônio of Cacimbas of Recife of Porto in 1709, and he/she became city in 1823 Culture THE city it was always cradle of intense cultural activity. Poets and writers as Alberto of Cunha Melo, Manuel Bandeira, Carlos Grieve Filho, César Leal, Clarice Lispector, Jaci Bezerra, Sebastião Uchoa Leite, Nelson Rodrigues, Gilberto Freyre, Paulo Freire, João Cabral of Melo Neto and Joaquim Nabuco are some of the great exponents. Nowadays, it is a pole-cultural one in constant growth in to visual arts, music, theater, and literature of Brazil.

In the music, especially for the influence of its plurality of rhythms as the carnival dance and its maracatu cultural effervescence also turned it several musicians' lar and traditional and contemporary composers, among which stand out Capiba, Nelson Ferreira, Antonio Maria, Zeh Rocha, Almir Oliveira, Lula Queiroga, Erasto Vasconcelos, Ademir Araújo, Lenine, Fred Zero Four, Irmãos Valença, Antônio Nóbrega, Naná Vasconcelos, Paulo Diniz, Fernando Lobo, Antônio Maria and Chico Science.

In its plastic arts more outstanding names they are Abelardo of the Hour, Francisco Brennnand, Hélio Feijó, João Câmara, Lula Cardoso Ayres, Rinaldo, Vicente of the Rego Monteiro, Welington Virgolino and Gil Vicente Vasconcelos of Oliveira.
Violence THE city of Recife possesses one of the largest indexes of homicides of Brazil, being ahead of metropolises as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in proportional numbers to the population. However, for solution of this situation, efforts are intensified by social organizations and the public power. It was created the Committee of Promotion of Human Rights and Prevention to the Violence in the Municipal district of Recife that has as function to articulate, to mobilize, to suggest and to support the several projects of social promotion and to integrate the actions for the promotion politics and warranty of the human rights and prevention to the violence. He/she still has the paper of external articulation with entities that compose the Metropolitan Area of Recife, with the objective of developing politics public conjuntas for promotion of human rights and prevention to the violence. A positive aspect is that state of Pernambuco occupies the third place in the Country in the national campaign for withdrawal of weapons, with more than 17 thousand picked up weapons.

One of the no-government social institutes of combat the violence is the Instituto Carlos Escobar (he/she sees weblink in the end of this article).