With the objective of reviving old street Carnivals, helping to maintain tradition and counterbalancing the dominance of the Carnival balls of Recife social clubs, a group of friends, lead by businessman Enéas Freire, decided to create, in December 1977, the Clube de Máscaras O Galo da Madrugada.

The electric tram is an electrically-powered urban vehicle that runs on tracks and is designed for public transport of passengers and/or cargo. The Portuguese word for tram, ‘bonde’, is derived from the English word bond.

The ‘Gráfico Amador’(‘Amateur Graphic’) was founded in May 1954 by a group of creative intellectuals formed by Aloísio Magalhães, Gastão de Holanda, José Laurênio de Melo and Orlando  da Costa Ferreira, with the purpose of publishing short literary texts, mainly poetry, in limited homemade runs.

On 20 July 1926, a Jewish temple was founded in the property of 29 Martins Júnior Street in the Boa Vista neighbourhood, which for some time became known as Shil Sholem Ocnitzer, in honour of one of its founders.

Fábrica da Torre (Torre Factory) is the name by which the Pernambuco Thread and Fabric Company (Companhia Fiação e Tecidos de Pernambuco) became known. Located in Recife’s Torre neighbourhood, the factory was an important player in the industrialization process of Pernambuco that began.