Olinda on the Atlantic Ocean

28 March 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  5 minutes

historical center © flickr.com - Prefeitura de Olinda/cc-by-2.0

historical center © flickr.com – Prefeitura de Olinda/cc-by-2.0

Olinda is a historic and one of the oldest cities in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, located on the country’s northeastern Atlantic Ocean coast, just north of Recife and south of Paulista. It has a population of 397,000 people and is one of the best-preserved colonial cities in Brazil.   read more…

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