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Penedo

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Country
  
Brazil

State
  
Alagoas

Website
  
Official website

Region
  
Northeast Region

Time zone
  
BRT (UTC-3)

Penedo

Weather
  
26°C, Wind E at 10 km/h, 84% Humidity

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Penedo is a municipality in the state of Alagoas in Brazil. The population is 64,074 (2015 est.) in an area of 689.88 km². Penedo lies 173 km south-west of the state capital of Maceió.

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History

Founded in 1614, Penedo has many important examples of Portuguese and Dutch colonial architectures. The history of Penedo can be found in Francisco Alberto Sales's book Arruando para o Forte.

Architectural heritage

Among its historically significant buildings are its well preserved churches, which were built through the 18th century. Some of these include:

  • Convento de São Francisco e Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Anjos
    (Convent of Saint Francis and Church of Our Lady of the Angels)
  • Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Corrente
    (Church of Our Lady of the Chains)
  • Catedral de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos, Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Penedo.
    (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Black People's Rosary)
  • The Casa do Penedo, built in 1974, has as its objective the preservation of the city's artistic and cultural patrimony. In the Casa do Penedo one can find a rich quantity of five centuries of creativity by residents of the São Francisco River Valley.

    References

    Penedo Wikipedia