Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
LAGO DE AMPARO
ACCOMMODATION
BARS, CLUBS AND
LIVE MUSIC VENUES
Igreja do
Amparo
Albergue de Olinda
Hotel 7 Colinas
Hotel Pousada São Francisco
Pousada Alto Astral
Pousada do Amparo
Pousada dos Quatro Cantos
Pousada São Pedro
7
5
6
3
1
2
4
A fábrica
Bodega do Véio
Xinxim da Baiana
2
1
3
AMPARO
SHOP
Igreja da
Miserícôrdia
Museu
Regional
Mercado da Ribeira
1
CAFÉS AND RESTAURANTS
Café Estação dos
Quatro Cantos
Creperia de Olinda
Flor do Coco
Oficina do Sabor
Patuá
Academia St.
Gertrudes
Loja
Azul
3
5
2
1
4
Horto D'el Rey
Mercado de
Artesanato
ALTO
DA SÉ
Museu de
Arte Sacra de
Pernambuco
Museu do Arte
Contemporânea
IRO
Nossa Senhera
das Graças
PRAÇA
LAURA NIGRO
Museu do
Mamulengo
Igreja de
São Salvador
P A
PRAÇA
JOÃO
ALFREDO
Palácio dos
Governadores
V. D E S Ă O F R
A N C I S C O
D
São
Pedro
PRAÇA MONS.
FARBICIO
CARMO
Convento de
São Francisco
4
Basilica e
Mosteiro
de São Bento
Igreja
Carmo
VARADOURO
RUA D. PEDRO ROSER
PRAÇA DO
CARMO
Buses to
Recife
Mercado
Eufrasio
Barbosa
N C A L V E
PRAÇA RIO
BRANCO
0
200
OLINDA
ATLANTIC OCEAN
metres
Igreja de São Salvador
Alto da Sé • Daily 9am-5pm • Free •
T
81 3271 4270
The main attraction on the Alto da Sé is the
Igreja de São Salvador
or just Igreja da Sé,
reconstructed between 1656 and 1676 after the Dutch had destroyed the original.
Inexplicably, the facade was given a bland Mannerist makeover in the 1970s, and the
interior is now more of a museum than a living church, its former chapels used to display
desultory religious art (including a Cristo Redentor statue). At the back of the church is a
patio from where you'll have the best views of the surrounding area and Recife.
Museu de Arte Sacra de Pernambuco
Rua Bispo Coutinho 726, Alto da Sé • Tues-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat & Sun 10am-2pm • R$2 •
T
81 3184 3154
Halfway along Praca da Sé lies the
Museu de Arte Sacra de Pernambuco
, holding a
moderately interesting sample of religious art saved from the region, in a seventeenth-
century bishop's palace.
Convento de São Francisco
Rua São Francisco 280 • Mon-Sat 9am-12.30pm & 2-5.30pm • R$3 •
T
81 3429 0517
If you have time to see only one church in Olinda, make it the
Convento de São
Francisco
. Established in 1577 as the first Franciscan church in Brazil, most of what
you see today was rebuilt in the eighteenth century, and though the interior is
