Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).
Igarassu is a Brazilian municipality on the north coast of the state of Pernambuco. It is located in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, 27 km from the Pernambuco state capital, in the Northeast Region of the country.
One of the first settlement centres in Brazil, the city is home to, according to the Institute of National Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN), the oldest Catholic church in the country: the Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Its historic centre also includes monuments such as the Convent and Church of Santo Antônio, which houses the Pinacoteca Museum of Igarassu, whose collection is considered the most important collection of the Brazilian colonial period.
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