The Casa da Cultura de Recife - A Quick Stop

The idea of an prison building beingturned into a cultural center selling arts & crafts is interetsing, but the result is dissapointing. A few shops are good and it is worth a quick visit. But there are too many shops selling the same thing, stuff that is also sold at almost every other tourist destination. It is included as a quick stop on my walking tour of the city (www.recifeguide.wordpress.com), but it is definately not worth making a special effort to go only here.