The professional corporations of the last century, remnants of the first centuries of Brazil’s colonization, started the Frevo or Carnival Clubs.

Fribourg Palace (Palácio de Friburgo), residence and office of the Governor Count John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen, was constructed on Antônio Vaz Island, the current neighbourhood of Santo Antônio, in Recife, on the area where today the Palácio do Campo das Princesas (Governor’s Palace), Santa Isabel

Geraldo Magalhães Melo, a civil engineer, was the fourth son of Odorico Meloand Rosa Parente de Magalhães Melo.

The first airfields of Guararapes Airport were built on land that belonged to the former Ibura Sugarcane Factory. In the 19th century, upon becoming “dead heat” (when it stopped grinding), these lands gave rise to a village in the south of Recife, which grew and became a suburb.

The history of the Park dates back to the foundation of the Dois Irmãos Forest Garden, when in the first half of the 19th century the land where the neighbourhood of Dois Irmãos is today belonged to the Apipucos Plantation, founded in 1577 and owned by the brothers.