In 1897, a group of rowers, captained by João Victor da Cruz Alfarra, created the ‘Recreio Fluvial’ (Fluvial Recreation) club, a society that rented boats that ran from the old Lingueta, in the Recife neighbourhood, to the Bathhouse, located on Pina.

According to Dutch documents, confirmed in a map by Barléus in his book A History of Works Recently Done in Eight Years in Brazil (under the reign of Maurice of Nassau), there was a bastion (part of a fortification) on the spot where Nova St begins.

O Carapuceiro’ (The Bonnet) founded by Father Miguel do Sacramento Lopes Gama, went into circulation for the first time on 7 April 1832, with four 21 x 15cm pages.

There was in Recife, in the mid-20th Century, a floating restaurant on the waters of the Capibaribe River.  Built on a wooden platform resting on 200-litre metallic drums, the restaurant was in fact a barge that had a wooden dining hall with windows and a gangway.

The first cinema in Recife was the Pathé, located at 45 Nova St (formerly Barão da Vitória), opening on 27 July 1909. The second  Royal, also situated at 47 Nova St, belonging to the firm Ramos & Co.