Portuguese Reading Office of Pernambuco, Cultural center and library in Santo Antonio district, Recife, Brazil.

The Portuguese Reading Office of Pernambuco occupies a three-story building at Rua do Imperador Dom Pedro Segundo 290, in the Santo Antônio district of central Recife. Construction began in 1909 and the headquarters was inaugurated in 1921. The building houses a library of more than 80,000 volumes, including rare works from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Comendador Miguel José Alves first proposed a Portuguese reading office in Recife, and surgeon and journalist João Vicente Martins founded it on 3 November 1850. It opened on 15 August 1851 on Rua da Cadeia Velha. Construction of the current three-story headquarters on Rua do Imperador Dom Pedro Segundo began in 1909 and was inaugurated in 1921.

The center publishes the magazine Encontro since 1983 to foster Luso-Brazilian exchange in literature, and its bulletin A Cidade e as Serras carries community news. Its collection includes a manuscript chapter of Eça de Queirós's A Cidade e as Serras and a 1919 biography of Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires.

The building is easily accessible on foot in the downtown area along Rua do Imperador Pedro II. Plan your visit for weekdays when the facility is fully open and all areas are available to explore.

Among the rare works held is a manuscript of one chapter of Eça de Queirós's novel A Cidade e as Serras, kept alongside a 1919 biography of Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires. The library's collection exceeds 80,000 volumes, including books from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and around 100 people a day study there free of charge.