At GOIANA, 80km north of Recife on BR-101, parts of the town are still made up of rows of nineteenth-century terraced houses, built for workers in the local cotton mill, which has been long since bankrupted. Pottery has taken over as the main economic activity, and Goiana is one of the most important centres […]
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