Recife - Forte Cinco Pontas

Forte Cinco Pontas

Below the Market, near the Rio Pina, is the Forte Cinco Pontas, built by the Dutch in 1630, which now houses the Municipal Museum. Here in 1825 a monk named Caneca, a champion of the Confederação do Equador movement, was shot and other republican leaders hanged. The memory of this martyr is still preserved by the people of Recife, and every year in the first half of January the "Passion of the Monk Caneca" is re-enacted in the streets of the city.