PREFACE OF MY BOOK ALL THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF OLINDA BY ROBERTO BARROS

I want to talk about the historical points of Olinda that keep a great archeology and richness about the beautiful and old churches and monasteries built by the Portuguese and that was burned by the Dutch who invaded Olinda and wanted to take the Portuguese domain that founded the ancient city of Olinda in the middle of the years 1535 to 1537 when Duarte Coelho conquered and expelled the Dutch from Olinda in which they founded the village of Olinda in 1537, Olinda was founded in 1537 by Duarte Coelho Pereira, first Donatário of the Captaincy of Pernambuco. The name of the village, according to tradition, came from an expression of enchantment by Coelho when he saw the landscape seen from the top of the hills: —It is a beautiful situation to found a villa “.

Olinda is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pernambuco. It belongs to the Metropolitan Region of Recife, six kilometers from the capital of Pernambuco.

Founded in 1535, Olinda is the oldest among the Brazilian cities declared Historical and Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, and was the second historic center in the country to receive such title, in 1982, after Ouro Preto. Despite the de-characterization of part of its historic wedding and the loss of several examples of 16th century architecture with the Dutch attack, Olinda is home to dozens of baroque churches and convents of inestimable historical value, and maintains its colonial urban layout. It is a place of great importance in the history of Brazil.

Olinda was the richest city in Colonial Brazil between the 16th century and the first decades of the 17th century according to writers of the time such as Pero de Magalhães Gândavo , even being referred to as a "small Lisbon", given the opulence only comparable to that of Portuguese cut. It developed around the old Castle of Duarte Coelho, the first Brazilian stronghold. It was the seat of colonial Brazil between 1624 and 1625 during the New Zealand invasions: Matias de Albuquerque was appointed Governor General, administering the colony from Olinda.

The village remained prosperous until the Dutch invasion of the Captaincy of Pernambuco, when the New Zealanders, after removing the noble materials from the buildings to build their houses in the capital of Nova Holanda (Recife), set fire to Olinda. With the end of the Pernambuco Insurrection, Olinda returned to be the headquarters of the captaincy, but without the influence of yesteryear, which caused conflicts such as the War of the Mascates. In 1827, the city ceased to be the capital of Pernambuco. In 2006, Olinda was elected the first Brazilian Capital of Culture, after competing with the cities of Salvador and João Pessoa.

I want to talk about art and images that portray us in a way that makes us look for great memories about the long times that here now I describe with immense affection and love about a creativity that for me has been mixed throughout my life in that I was a tourist to unveil and take several photographs to mark my passage over a good time as a true adventurer that I keep all the beautiful photographs and images of my city that were well kept in the tune of time and I want to dedicate this beautiful book to everyone and that it serves as an incentive to many people who want to know a little about Olinda and its images and here I leave with much love and work my best hug and thank you all!

I want with a lot of love and expression to talk here a little about my life that simply not all of us can understand every detail narrated and built from a deep love and conquest for life that we alienate ourselves about a great role of showing everything that touches us simply the heart like a beautiful dream and fantasy that ours comes to take care of our euphoria that puts our lives on a fearless role of knowing and conquering different places that takes us to the great world in which we take and keep true images and photographs as real evidence and loyal that we feel love for all the things in life that surprise us and make us persist behind a future that we must always keep as true trials and achievements that we go through in life on true tourist tours that make us meet beautiful and unforgettable people in life who don't know us and that we must always keep as a beautiful memory every feeling of every place and every person that touched us the true soul that we have deep inside each one of us and I want to say with immense love that the nature of a human being shows itself more trust and ahead of its poster in embracing life and knowing the world better and more beautiful when we walk around and take beautiful images that are archived for us as a confidential file in which we take part in an adventure of knowing certain and beautiful places where we stand out among their natural planes where we take beautiful extraordinary photographs to remind us of different places that we always and sometimes we go for a walk to see what we do and save our best adventures that we always dream of getting to know the real world and that our fantasies are just like the dreams and memories of a true tourist who sees life as beautiful and loves people and who the world never stops its rhythm because life is an important thing for all of us who live the best and worst moments of our lives and build in youth the best source of our souls like the optimism that infects us and shows us how perfect life is and things always touch our hearts because nature is something very painful to love and to live because we build it inside each feeling the most dreamed of and beautiful harmonies and contact with life about all its modalities and ways of living and so we will always live until the end keeping our best and greatest love captive to everyone and everything forever as a true conquered dream and love and value for the ability to live and keep all that we are and come forever because life is a sounding board like the universe and we have to preserve our images and preserve the landscapes because we will be contributing to the great human development and nature of life with our esteem and our euphoria and love for life and I want to thank everyone here for my valuable life and everything I have done and conquered as loyal proof s and real that I love life so much and all the places I've been and I've known and I want to say that I'm very happy and that all these photographic images have been kept as a true and valuable album of the great adventures and achievements of my youth that I lived and will keep forever in my archives forever and that way I will keep and show all my unforgettable value and love for my life and I thank God for another day of life and thank you very much for all the beautiful times and a big hug for everyone from the writer Roberto clays.

I want to thank gods first for their support and encouragement to show me great real and read evidence about my city that I have always prescribed different stories in everything I do and travel on an adventure that gives me more affection and confident esteem for my best and greatest pleasure of living and conquering life and I want to say that I made this book as real proof that I am body and soul from Olinda and I love my land very much, both the unforgettable Vitória de santo Antão and the old and ancient city of Olinda that will be kept forever in my thoughts and I will leave as the best evidence the greatest memories of a very happy youth that will remain in memory of all my history and my life for all to see and I want to thank everyone for their affection and say that I am very happy for having made this book that it will serve as a tourist support for everyone and for everyone to see the best and most enchanting sights of our city and thank you all very much and a big hug from you and heart to all Olindenses and Recifeans and may peace and love cover us with eternal achievements and may they enjoy the beautiful wonders of our city and thank you!

By: Roberto Barros