CATEDRAL SÉ DE OLINDA - E DE SÃO SALVADOR DO MUNDO

Only a few kilometres from the other great historical city of Pernambuco, Recife, the beautiful Olinda is itself covered with a white coat of churches. The wealth of temporal power often contributed to the wealth of temporal power, through the construction of those remarkable temples of faith that are the baroque churches and cathedrals. The cathedral of Olinda ("igreja da Sé", for "sede episcopal", or bishop's seat, ex-catedra) is a pearl of religious baroque. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife. The cathedral of Olinda - called Catedral de São Salvador do Mundo - which dominates the Alto do Sé square, was originally a simple chapel that was replaced in 1584 by a solid building with several secondary chapels, on the initiative of Antonio Barreiro, the third bishop of Brazil. Raised to the status of a cathedral in 1676, at the time of the creation of the diocese, and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, the cathedral, sober and in typical Portuguese colonial style, is today an emblematic architectural element of Olinda's old centre. In addition to admiring some beautiful murals and altars decorated with gold leaf, you can enjoy a fantastic view of Olinda and Recife in the distance, surrounded by lush vegetation. The Sé church is also the Sé square, one of the city's postcards and perhaps one of the most famous views in the Nordeste and in Brazil as a whole.