Recife Brazil Dois Irmãos State Park has been a zoo and Atlantic Forest conservation unit since 1916. Covering 14 hectares, it protects local biodiversity such as sloths, marmosets and birds, as well as housing the Recife Zoo, with 400 animals under human care, including reptiles, birds and mammals.

Recife Brazil One of the first breweries in the Americas, La Fontaine or The Fountain in French, was located here in the Graças neighbourhood, in the northern part of Recife.

Recife Brazil We’re here in one of Recife's largest outdoor leisure areas, Sítio da Trindade. Here you can go for a run, bring the kids to the park or just relax in the shade of the vast wooded area.

Recife Brazil If you're listening to this very text, not reading it, in front of this beautiful red house in the heart of the city's historic center, it's certainly not carnival.

Wilmington United States We’re at Fort Christina Park, once the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal location of the New Sweden colony. The fort was built in 1638 and named after Queen Christina of Sweden.

On January 27, 1654, here in the vicinity of Forte das Cinco Pontas, where we are now, the capitulation of the Dutch troops was signed, in favour of the Portuguese, handing back control of the colony to its former masters.

Recife Brazil Anyone who enters the Capela Dourada, the Golden Chapel, where we are now, can hardly fail to be impressed by the beauty of this almost entirely gold-plated temple.

Recife Brazil We are standing in front of the rectory of Uninassau, located in the Graças neighbourhood in Recife. The Maurice de Nassau University pays homage to a central figure of the Dutch invasion of Pernambuco in the 17th century: Count Maurice de Nassau, who ruled Dutch Brazil from 1637 to 1644.

Jaboat o dos Guararapes Brazil Here, at Monte dos Guararapes, two decisive battles took place that led to the expulsion of the Dutch from Brazil in 1654, after 24 years of private colonisation by the entrepreneurs of the Dutch West India Company, with the backing of the Dutch States General, that is, the Dutch government.

Recife Brazil Here, in the Church of Nossa Senhora dos Militares, in the Santo Antônio neighbourhood of Recife, we find one of the best-known representations of the Battles of Guararapes, decisive battles between the Portuguese and Dutch, here in the northeast of Brazil.