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 Mixed Carnival Clube Vassourinha (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 " Midnight Man " 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 Giant dolls. 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 Uptown.

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 Victory 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