In the early twentieth century, the current district of Arruda was known as New Road and, until the arrival of the first ‘maxambomba’ (small locomotives where the drivers worked in a cabin with no cover), it was an unappealing place.

TheArts and Crafts Lyceumin Recife was built between the years of 1871 and 1880, to serve as the base for the School of Crafts (Escola de Ofícios) run by the Pernambuco Society of Mechanical and Liberal Arts, founded in November 1836 and inauguratedin 1841.

Situated on the left bank of the Capibaribe River, in the Boa Vista neighbourhood, it used to be a swamp owned by businessman Casimiro Antônio Medeiros, the first to build on those lands and defeat the water-logged left bank of the Capibaribe.

The mixed carnival block Batutas de São José was founded on June 5, 1932, in Pátio de São Pedro, No.33, (Recife), with a party animated by the band of the 21st Battalion of Hunters.

The Beberibe valley is very narrow, passing through low-lying land and marshlands from its source to the eponymous suburb. That is why the land alongside it – formed by ferruginous and massapê clay – becomes inundated after a flood occurs.