Recife, Brazil
Recife was once the site of the short-lived Dutch colony of Mauritsstad in the seventeenth century, which had a significant Jewish community made up primarily of Jews from the Iberian peninsula and Amsterdam. Jews were persecuted in the Catholic Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas, and they were outlawed from residing in the French colonies by order of the Code Noir of 1685. Most Jewish communities in the Americas during the colonial period were found primarily in the Dutch and English colonies.
Recife is such a beautiful place ..
(via thewestostlicherdivan)