To know the origins of Brazil, where the nature is exuberant and where the country offers the richest manifestation of its popular culture, we must visit the Northeast, area formed by nine states, that are: Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia.

In the Northeast we find an eternal summer climate and the most charming beaches of the continent, from the fascinating beaches of Broken Canoe, in Ceará, of Genipabu, with its dunes in Rio Grande do Norte, of Ponta dos Seixas and Cabo Branco, in Paraíba, of Porto das Galinhas and the islands of the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, in Pernambuco, of Pratagy, in Alagoas, of Old Watchtower, in Sergipe, until Porto Seguro, in Bahia, among many other.

In this area we find delicious rhythms as the " forró ", "carnival dance ", " screens ", maracatu " and " lambada dance ", as well as the " trio electrico " and the Carnival. It can be savored the African palm oil , several pepper types and other seasonings of its varied Africanized kitchen, seafood, and manioc flour, everything accompanied by the caipirinha (liquor of cane of sugar, with lemon and sugar), the most popular national drink or the refreshing côco water.

The regional craft presents a souvenirs variety, that are in offer in the Mercado Modelo, in Salvador, in the House of the Culture, in Recife and in the Fair of Caruaru, in Pernambuco. The colonial architecture can be found in Olinda, Pernambuco - cradle of the Portuguese civilization in Brazil, and in the neighborhood of the Pelourinho, in Salvador. These two places were declared " Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity ", by Unesco, together with S. Luís, in Maranhão that possue rich examples of the use of the portuguese tiles in the architecture of the centuries XVII and XVIII. In the National Park of the Mountain of the Capybara, in the municipal district of Raimundo Nonato, in Piauí, we find the archeological paintings that proves the man's oldest presence in the American continent.