One of the most important centres of the sugarcane industry

The village quickly prospered for being the center of commerce of a highly prized product in the international market in the 16th and 17th centuries: the sugar cane. Olinda was the symbol of the wealth the Sugar cane commerce provided.
The city’s urban fabric establishment, which somehow has been preserved up to the present with minor changes, is set out by the relationship between the main constructions and the traditional secular construction. Today’s existing plazas emerged from streets intersections, or from churchyards in front of the churches.