OLINDA'S STORY AND THE REMEMBER OF A GREAT TIME

There is a city that we seek an explanation that is already written for our hands that were places of battles of great men who fought to defend Olinda and who are examples of heroes and brave guerrillas with their army in command who grew up and lived in this city of old churches and huge monasteries and beautiful fountains everywhere that there are tales like dreams to unveil these secrets that we are today impressing the good passivity of Olindenses as it is and how was their history of an ancient and mysterious city in which they were in the memory of great people who died and fought against an invasion of foreign armies and were killed in battle and many were killed by the Dutch that today there are several forts scattered in different cities and places in Olinda with huge Dutch cannons and became tourist attractions for thousands of foreigners in memory of an ancient and eternal city that makes in the streets of Olinda the best and most beautiful carnival with its the orchestras and huge plaster dolls in carnival costume with countless people and children jumping and singing their beautiful songs for the love of Olinda that we will never forget.

Olinda I want to sing this song like this. Its coconut trees its sun its sea to remember this love song dreaming that Olinda has in us and makes my carnival.

Today we play and take the best Indian stick that is made with cachaça and various medicinal herbs that tourists enjoy with the best pleasure of being in Olinda in the middle of a rich, strong, beautiful and smiling people who are called crazy people of the century. that thousands of people stroll today in a square called Praça da Se with an old church in an architectural and well preserved formation for a Cesário of exhibition and artisanal culture and it is a place to keep yourself before God of a good Catholic mass faith for a people who see Olinda as beautiful as an innocent girl in a valley of massive stone air surrounded by deep seas with a panoramic view that today is the best attraction of the see for a very thoughtful and chosen people.

With a row of traditional stalls where the people enjoy the best acarajé and the best tapioca and the real barbecue with the best beers and guaraná in the region, all this is due to a real night of afoxé, capoeira and various games and shows to the show of Alceu Valença and other cultural artists.

I no longer see Olinda alone with your churches and monasteries but I miss you when you look at me with your morning glance that I see among the sunlight and the birds' songs and kisses comforting my heart and knowing that I still live in yours. address and when the afternoon comes I can find in my heart someone who will make me happy and be my eternal companion that resonates between a happy night where the church bells seem to ring a beautiful and old song that would speak of a game of eternal friendships that I would be worth for several hours in your glory that shines on me where are you that you are lonely Olinda I see you and I can’t imagine as I feel my heart stumble between a hot desire like an absinthe that soon would become a glass of wine next to the stick from the Indian to highlight our warm heart that on such a cold night soon takes me out of the agony of being happy and living next to you.

I want to get closer to you for an uneven night that between steps I kiss you in a haunted look I don't forget how beautiful, ancient and mysterious to my innocent and strong eyes I am dating you with my heart between the streets and squares that I am thinking about having and when i leave i immediately feel the emptiness in my chest saying that you live in my brave and strong heart.

Olinda ES as an old dream or perhaps a waltz in which my thoughts intersect with an eternal longing where we seek joyful and safe an answer for life and we never lose our best happy friends for always being with you and in our hearts that always they combined in a love song for you that were like a dream in our hearts.

In 1534, the Portuguese Crown instituted the Hereditary Captaincy regime. The Captaincy of Pernambuco was handed over to the Portuguese nobleman Duarte Coelho, who took possession of his captaincy, disembarking, on March 9 , 1535, at the factory founded in 1516, between Pernambuco and Itamaracá. Shortly thereafter, he headed south to find a place to settle. He found a strategically ideal place, high up in the hills, where there was a small village called Marim , by the Indians, settling there the village that gave rise to Olinda.

A site protected by the height overlooking the sea, with a natural harbor formed by reefs, abundant water and fertile land , and easy to defend, according to the military standards of the time . The place was so pleasant, that, it is said, the name Olinda was given from a phrase said by Duarte Coelho: “Oh beautiful situation to build a village”. The day of Olinda's foundation is unknown; it is known that the town prospered so much that, in 1537, it was already elevated to the category of a village. On March 12, 1537, Duarte Coelho sent to the king of Portugal, D. João III, the Foral, donation letter describing all existing places and improvements in Olinda Village. On the beaches, the village was fortified for defense and from the top of the hills it expanded towards the sea, the port and the interior where the sugar mills were located.

With the extraction of brazilwood and the development of the culture of sugar cane, Olinda became one of the most important commercial centers in the colony, enriching it to such an extent that it competed with the Portuguese Court in luxury and ostentation. The urban layout of the village was configured, still in the 16th century, with the definition of the paths and the occupation of the main promontories by the religious. With the arrival of the first religious orders - Carmelites, in 1580, Jesuits, in 1583, Franciscans, in 1585, and Benedictines, in 1586, the catechization of the Indians was also carried out, of fundamental importance for the definitive conquest of the lands.

On February 16, 1630, the Netherlands invaded Olinda and conquered Pernambuco. Once the city was taken, the Dutch settled in the town and islands next to the port and abandoned Olinda. On November 24, 1631, the Dutch set fire to Olinda, after removing the noble materials from the buildings to build their houses in Recife, which begins to prosper under Dutch administration. On January 27, 1654, the Dutch were expelled and the slow reconstruction of Olinda village began.

AFTER 1654 - After 1654, the destination of Recife can no longer be changed, which now occupies that place before Olinda. Recife will be the headquarters, although unofficial, and Olinda, seconded, will slowly rebuild, no longer having the importance it had in those years before 1630. A mid-19th century map reveals a city, title obtained in 1676, still with the same dimensions as the old village. It is true that their religious houses have been reconstructed in a monumental way. The commercialism present in Recife and the rationality of that new relationship, in the light of the new world of the 16th and 17th centuries, finally won. Olinda has its future outlined in view of the growing importance of Recife. The historic center (current), in the mid-nineteenth century, was still surrounded by rural properties, the largest, the engenhos, mostly of dead fire, those of the lowland of Beberibe, and the smallest , the farms, on the banks of the River Beberibe and the sea.

NOVO FLORESCER - Since Olinda is a place for housing and where the Law Academy was installed since 1827, it acquires a certain importance in relation to the place of work, Recife. But it is the interest in the healthy sea baths, recommended by doctors, that gives it new life. New life that is well represented by the interest of a faster connection, through an urban train, with Recife, this was made since the Encruzilhada, by an old path that existed since the 16th century.

In principle, vacationers used third-party houses, rented for the summer seasons. Then, real estate is acquired and then it becomes a habit to live in the city, even outside the summer season. It is the revival of the city. This transformation is felt in those houses close to the sea, where they are dressed in eclectic clothes and, with the renovation of the façades, they are modernized. What was restricted to areas close to the beaches will then walk to the other streets of the city. An urban transformation that gives new life to the old village. Drinking water, brought to the homes by the Santa Teresa Company, and electrification, denote the importance that the city is regaining. Soon, the urban train is replaced by electric trams, at the beginning of the 20th century.

MENEZES, José Luiz Mota, in Urban and Territorial Evolution of Olinda: from Discovery to Current Times - The Village of Olinda - 1537-1630.

THE HISTORY OF OLINDA CARNIVAL

The Olinda Carnival emerged in the early twentieth century. Its origin is directly linked to the emergence of carnival clubs, such as Clube Carnavalesco Misto Lenhadores (origin in 1907) and Clube Carnavalesco Misto Vassourinhas (origin in 1912). The tradition of doll parades, on the other hand, emerged in the early 1930s. It was in the year 1932 that the doll "Homem da Meia-Noite" went to the streets of the city for the first time to liven up the carnival.

Giant dolls

One of the main marks of Olinda's carnival is the parade of Bonecos Gigantes. Made of wood, paper and fabrics, these dolls are led through the streets of the city, cheering up the revelers. One of the best known and traditional dolls is the "Midnight Man". These dolls are representations of important historical personalities from Brazil and the world. Politicians, musicians, athletes and famous artists are transformed, with a lot of talent and art, into these beautiful symbols of Olindean carnival.

Frevo

The street parades are animated with a lot of samba and frevo. Although it started in Recife, the frevo has been part of Olinda's carnival for several decades. It is the frevo that animates and spreads the revelers through the streets and slopes of Cidade Alta.

Popular festival

All carnivals over a million revelers participate in the popular festival. There are approximately 500 carnival groups that parade through the streets, mainly from the old center of Olinda. In addition to the carnival clubs, frevos clubs, blocks, maracatus, mobs, afoxés and caboclinhos take to the streets. The traditions of Olinda's carnival represent the purest mixture of cultural traits of the peoples who formed the Brazilian nation (black Indians and Europeans).

Curiosity:

One of Olinda's best known doll makers is the artist Silvio Botelho.

I come from a very big and happy city that there are thousands of people who always exhibit their traditions of a cultural and carnival people who live life in a festive and victorious way turned to everyday life and who are all countrymen from an old time that the past constantly reminds us of what our parents were and what passed on to people with a contagious magnitude and simply formed by beautiful and beautiful ladies and gentlemen of a city enchanted as a waltz dream in which every year it is celebrated and honored by all who love within your heart for being rich, strong and happy and we always seek with love and quality the old tradition of a people who know how to make the best carnival in the world that completes us with our honors and tributes from a young guard who was in remembrance of everyone who has always enjoyed it up close how beautiful South America is like the united states that always leads us to simplify our origins and better personal aspects of a people who know what they want and do not stumble during the race for the life that is and is always alive and present with all our joys of a perfect Brazilian citizen and reveler.

I want to thank you for this beautiful city and for its carnival enthusiasm that completes millions of interests in our hearts that we are playing and frolicking through the streets of Vitoria de Santo Antão that makes the best carnival in the countryside of Pernambuco and the streets of Olinda which is also always unforgettable in our eyes that knows how to daydream and see how beautiful and enchanted it is with revelers that makes us smile, sing and jump through all the streets with its frevos orchestras and its beautiful and ancient traditional giant dolls that always show the cultural tradition of a people who live in Olinda and make Olinda a city of fantasies, allegories and the best carnival in the world because we are sure that our traditions can tell us how much we love our origins and the tradition of a rich and happy people who know where all the wealth lives emanated in a Bahian tradition of frevos and afoxés, caboclinhos scattered in the old streets and old houses of a city that fought against Dutch and English invasions to be saved by the Portuguese on March 12, 1537 by Duarte Coelho, a Portuguese who founded the beautiful city with a name that enchants and nudes us for its beauty and heritage conservation of a people that makes it a populous and very cultural city of a people who know how much it is worth and how old it is for being rich, old and festive and for its unforgettable carnival tradition that moves in high spirits and that keeps my hugs and kisses and a lot of axé for all olindenses that make the best carnival in the world world as a dream that can tell us how happy we are and we are always with you all the time. My hugs!

By: Roberto Barros