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Pernambuco is one of the Brazilian States where some of the pages of the history of the Country have been recorded. The State keeps the marks from the 17th century, period when it got wealthier, thanks to the sugar cane production. The capital, Recife, is a perfect composition between modernity and past. Its streets and monuments keep colonial memories that mingle with the sophistication of a metropole. On the outskirts of the capital, paradisiac landscapes remind of the battle for the occupation of those lands; among cannons pointing to the sea, churches and colonial mansions, monuments and old sugar mills preserving the memory of the golden period of the sugar cane civilization.