The cities of Recife and Olinda complete 488 years This Wednesday (12). Known for culture, receptivity, paradise beaches and a distant history, municipalities carry myths and truths about them – and a story full of twists.
THE CNN Viagem & Gastronomy He contacted the municipalities of Olinda and Recife to learn more about the cities – and confirm what is true and lie about the rumors surrounding these places. Even so, one fact is already undeniable: the relationship that these municipalities nourish each other.
Check below myths and truths about Recife and Olinda
Olinda was known as small Lisbon
True. Following the extractivism of Pau-Brazil and the development of sugarcane culture in the 1500s, Olinda became one of the most important shopping centers of the colony in the hereditary captaincies. The city enriched and disputed the luxury and ostentation with the Portuguese court, located in Lisbon, Portugal. Thus, it became known as Lisbon – the little Lisbon.
The Foundation of Olinda and Recife took place on the same date, on March 12
Myth. According to the City of Recife, the cities were not necessarily founded on the same date. The official date was on March 12 after the 1537 Charter of Olinda, which gives the people the title of Vila de Olinda and establishes the local public heritage, to mention this day as the foundation of Recife and Olinda.
Olinda was destroyed in 1631
True. On February 16, 1630, the Netherlands invaded the city and won Pernambuco, dominated by the Portuguese until then. The following year, on November 24, 1631, the Dutch removes the noble materials of buildings from the old village to build houses in Recife, which grows economically, and burns Olinda. Already the year 1954 marked not only the expulsion of the Dutch, but the reconstruction of the municipality, which never has the same importance as before the years 1630.
Recife and Olinda never went to war
Myth. The City Hall of Recife comments that the relationship between Olinda and Recife has not always been friendly. The cities have already faced each other in the Mascat War in 1710, after families owned by interior mills see with suspicion the success and prosperity of the current Pernambuco capital. The mascates were Portuguese traders, according to the official website of the Federal Senate.
Recife has the oldest college in the country
True. Founded in 1827, at the São Bento Monastery, the Recife Law School was transferred to the Palace of Governors, then passed the Jesuit College of Praça 17 and the Rua do HospÃcio. Since 1911, it has been located at Adolfo Cirne Square. The university has also worked in Olinda.
Recife took almost 300 years to be considered a city and is the oldest Brazilian capital
True. The government only recognized Recife formally as a city in 1823. Being the foundation on March 12, 1537, the municipality turns 488 years this Wednesday (12) and will turn 500 years in 2037, being the first Brazilian capital to reach this milestone.
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