Top Recife Tours by Duration

Recife’s blend of colonial heritage, waterways, and modern life can be difficult to fully appreciate without local insight. Discover the city alongside a local guide on a private walking tour. This personalized tour allows you to discover the exterior of monuments, including museums, while learning about the city’s history and culture. Museum visits can be arranged if requested in advance. Your guide contacts you before the tour to tailor the experience to your interests. Perfect for families, couples, or solo travelers, this tour reveals hidden gems and local stories that showcase the true spirit of Recife.

Explore the Ricardo Brennand Institute during this 5-hour tour in Recife. Follow an audio guide through the world-class art collection, including one of the world's largest weapons collections and a significant number of Frans Prost paintings. Continue to the Oficina Francisco Brennand to see a collection of a native Brazilian contemporary sculptor, with an additional visit to the Park of Sculptures to see more of the artist's work. Entrance fees and round-trip transportation from select Recife hotels are included.

Visit the best shops in Recife on this curated shopping tour. With lots of shopping options, it may be hard to know where to start; a guide takes you to the best of the best. You can shop for local goods and international brands in a convenient way, with all transportation provided. Stops include the Shopping Rio Mar, the Central de Artesanato na Praça do Marco Zero, Casa de Cultura, and the old city of Recife, among others.

Explore the ‘Venice of Brazil’ on a small-group city tour of Recife. Visit landmarks such as the Park of Statues, Casa da Cultura, Marco Zero Square, and more. Learn about the history of this coastal city from your guide as you walk through the old town. Enjoy some free time to shop for souvenirs before returning to your hotel.

Explore Olinda, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed city known as the 'Venice of Brazil', on a 5-hour guided tour from Recife. With your knowledgeable local guide, see the highlights and landmarks of the city, including the Francisco Brennard Museum, San Francisco Convent, and the city's local markets. Listen to engaging commentary from your guide during your journey in a comfortable van equipped with Wi-Fi. All entrance fees and round-trip transportation from Recife are included.

Sink your toes into the sand of 4 different spectacular beaches in Pernambuco during this 6-hour tour from Recife. With your local guide, stop at 2 viewpoints along your journey for photo ops and views over the surrounding beaches. Learn about the history and culture of the area through engaging commentary from your guide. Explore Suape Beach, among others, and take an optional boat ride up the river.

Compare past and present with a tour of modern Recife and colonial-era Olinda. Take a panoramic ride through Recife, crossing graceful bridges in the old town areas and on the way, you will drive along the scenic shoreline through Boa Viagem, passing the imposing colonial-era Governor’s Mansion and Santa Isabel Theater. Arrive in charming Olinda and begin exploring. Founded in 1534 and named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, historic Olinda retains many fine examples of colonial-era architecture, despite the Dutch burning down much of the city in the early 17th century. Visit Sé Cathedral and admire its Portuguese tiles and gilded carvings. Stop for a photo of the picturesque views of Recife and Boa Viagem, and enjoy a refreshing beverage before returning to your Hotel.

Welcome to Recife and Olinda! Meet Recife and Olinda with a Guide historian This is a private tour for you, your friends or family with a bilingual historian Guide who will pick you up and take you to your place of origin. Main attractions visited Franscico Brennand Sculpture Park: We will drive via Brasília Teimosa to the Parque das Esculturas by the avenue of another 1 km over the reefs. Overlooking the ancient Recife we make the historical and geographical contextualization of the city of Recife. San José and Santo Antonio: Cais Estelita Avenue and the new urban occupation of the city. Streets of the Aurora and the Sun, Duarte Coelho Bridge (Galo Bridge). Baoba of the Republic Square, Palace of the Princesses, Crab of the Customs House. Old Recife: Marco Zero, Cultural Box, Crafts Market, Rua do Bom Jesus (formerly Rua dos Judeus), Plaza do Arsenal, Malakoff Tower and Cais Apolo.

Shalom ve baruch haba! The Jewish tour of Recife and Olinda is a very special experience for those interested in learning more about the presence of Jews and new Christians in Recife – in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Guide historian will take you to know the main milestones of the Jewish presence in Brazil and about the Brazilian colonial economy, the religious culture of the Brazilian people and about the European wars that brought Portuguese Jews from the Netherlands during the 17th century. In Olinda we will visit some of the main churches, markets and streets of the colonial period and main vestiges of the Marrana presence in Brazil in the 16th century, in addition to the house of Branca Dias, and a mikveh (purification tank) that is representing the "marrana" cultural resistance in the colonial era. . In Recife the tour will be in the historic center where concentrated most of the Jewish community during the Dutch period of the 17th century we will visit the first public synagogue of the Americas.

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Located in the south of the state of Pernambuco, it is in the Cabo de Santo Agostinho that the Industrial Complex of Suape is located, one of the main industrial poles of the state. Besides the industrial pole, Cabo de Santo Agostinho is known for its famous beaches. The municipality is also known for its ancient churches dating from the seventeenth century.

The origin of the name is indigenous, of the tupi "tab-moi-inda-ré" that means the repopulator. Tamandaré is a municipality located on the southern coast of the state of Pernambuco, more than 100 km from the capital of Pernambuco. One of the entrances that give access to the municipality is the Reserva Biológica do Saltinho, an area covered by vegetation native to the Atlantic Forest. The municipality is prominent in the production of sugar cane and tourism. Its shore is formed by the beaches: Tamandaré, Barra, Pontal do Lira, Campas and dos Carneiros. Carneiros Beach is among the 15 most beautiful beaches in the world. Another tourist point is the Fort of Saint Ignatius located near the beach of Tamandaré, built in the seventeenth century.

The origin of the name Maragogi is of the old Tupi that means "river of the cats of the bush", was chosen that name due to the river that bathes the municipality. The municipality of Maragogi is located in the state of Alagoas, in the state of Maceió. One of the main tourist attractions in the state, the tourist attractions that attract most in Maragogi are the beaches of Peroba, São Bento, Barra Grande and Burgalhau. Beaches of natural pools, calm sea, white sands and reefs where it is possible to bathe next to colorful fish. Another strong point in Maragogi is its rural tourism in the farms Cachoeira and Marrecas.