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Paço do Frevo — Frevo Centre

A centre for memory, documentation, learning and live experience devoted to frevo, a cultural heritage of Brazil and humanity.
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Paço do Frevo — Frevo Centre — Original Meu Recife editorial illustration — not a documentary photograph.
Original Meu Recife editorial illustration — not a documentary photograph. · Meu Recife
Description automatically translated from the Portuguese editorial summary.
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Historical and cultural context

A centre for memory, documentation, learning and live experience devoted to frevo, a cultural heritage of Brazil and humanity. Meu Recife places the site within the editorial thread “Recife · Old Recife · music · identities”. This reading first establishes the documented cultural role, then keeps it separate from mutable hours, admission and exhibition programming.

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What to notice on site

Begin with these source-grounded themes: documents, maps and historical images; music, performance and collective memory. They are not a generic attraction checklist, but prompts derived from this specific profile's evidence. Compare the collection with the building that contains it, and notice how the institution connects memory, research and public narrative.

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Relationship with the city and district

Paço do Frevo — Frevo Centre is in Old Recife, Recife. The atlas connects it to the “Recife · Old Recife · music · identities” circuit, grouping places by theme and geography without inventing a single chronology. Treat the approach, nearby streets and shifts in urban scale as part of the visit: they explain how the place belongs to this part of the city.

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Verified facts

Every fact below is linked to this profile’s source codes.

Location
Old Recife · Recife
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Listed address
Praça do Arsenal da Marinha, s/n
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Documented focus
A centre for memory, documentation, learning and live experience devoted to frevo, a cultural heritage of Brazil and humanity.
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Evidence basis
Identity, location and cultural relevance are supported by primary evidence.
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Original Meu Recife editorial copy based only on this profile's source codes. It does not reproduce third-party text in full or turn a community-guide opinion into fact.

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Before visiting

Reference address
Praça do Arsenal da Marinha, s/n, Bairro do Recife, Recife — PE
Museums & memory
1–2 hours
What can change
Hours, tickets, accessibility and temporary closures can change. Confirm with the official source before visiting.
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Getting there

Coordinates published by an institutional source

Reference address
Praça do Arsenal da Marinha, s/n
District and city
Bairro do Recife · Recife, PE
Verified coordinates
-8.061318, -34.871638
Coordinates published by an institutional source · map © OpenStreetMap