Penedo is a municipality/county in the state of Alagoas in Brazil. The population in 2004 is 59,429. Alagoas (AL) is a small state in northeastern Brazil lying between the states of Pernambuco and Sergipe; touching the state of Bahia along a part of its southwestern border. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Founded in 1956, this city stays 173Km far from Maceió. There are, in Penedo, many important testimonials of Portuguese and Dutch colonizations and beautiful landscapes. There are many preserved churches built through the 17th century. Some of them are: Igreja de Nossa Senhora das Correntes (Church of Our Lady of the Chains); Catedral de Nossa Senhora dos Pretos (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Blackmen); Igreja Santa Maria dos Anjos (Church of Saint Mary of the Angels). 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Maceió, Alagoas (Brazil). ... Colonization (or colonisation) is the act where life forms move into a distant area where their kind is sparse or not yet existing at all and set up new settlements in the area. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...

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See also:

• Penedo (Rio de Janeiro), a touristic attraction of Resende.