Carnival is characterized by parties, public entertainment, masquerade balls and folkloric manifestations. In Brazil, Carnival is traditionally celebrated on the Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday preceding the forty days that go from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday.

In Caruaru, a city in Pernambuco, known as the capital of the ‘Agreste’ region, on Wednesdays and Saturdays the most complete and important free market of Northeast Brazil takes place.

Founded in 1890, with the name Correia da Silva factory, in honour of the State’s vice-governor at the time, it was originally built by the Englishman Carlos Sinden and his father-in-law Felipe Paes de Oliveira. This name, however, was never recognised, and the factory was always called ‘Catende’.

The history of cinema in Pernambuco began in 1922 and was marked by two important moments for Brazilian regionalist cinema: the Cycle of Recife in the 1920s and the Super 8 Cycle in the 1970s.

Recife carnival club, founded on March 5, 1897. Oral history is still the source of many of the stories of Recife's carnival clubs, such as Clube Lenhadores, the third oldest in the capital of Pernambuco.