Recife / Olinda

Nice little town (Olinda) next to huge ugly city (Recife). We stayed in Olinda and explored Recife only on a daytip. Made a rather chaotic and depressed impression to me. I definetly preferred Olinda.

Well, cobbled steep streets. A lot of churches. Nice. Pitoresque. But somehow many of these colonial-time citys look just the same... of course, above, you see Olinda.



And that is Recife. You see, they didn't realize yet, that Brazil left the World Cup. Or they'll just leave it there until 2010. Next chance to get the 'hexa'.



Recife also has some nice parks. And no that day two nice girls to pose in front of one of them.


And now some history: churches in Recife and Olinda were build by slaves, just as anywhere in Brazil. Only that in this part of the country or there were so many slaves, or they were particularly unhappy with their situation or just creative in trying to find some revenge: the angels on the Portuguese tiles all look a little weird. Queer eyes, some even looking pregnant. That's how painters get their critics through ;-)


I am not sure, why this big eagle was stored at the "forte das cinco pontas", which by the way has only four angles, but OK. He did make a nice picture...