Fort St Francis was designed by master-mason and builder Cristóvão Álvares and erected in 1630 to defend the Vila de Olinda. In a quadrangular shape, the monument is architecturally simple and rustic, with small frames, only two small arsenals and some cannons.

Olinda is a city traditionally known for its street carnival, the participation of the people in blocks, clubs, and troças. However, the giant dolls constitute a separate attraction in the carnival of Olinda.

Inaugurated on 18 November 1872, the Olinda Lighthouse is the second oldest in Pernambuco. At that time, situated in the Fort of São Francisco de Olinda, it had a forged iron tower, measured 12.5 metres in height, and its light was visible for 12 nautical miles.

It was founded on 17 February 1947 by a group of lads from Amparo St and from Quatro Cantos, who went out onto the streets of the upper city with bare backs, wielding branches of a pitomba tree, a fruit tree native to Northeast Brazil whose bearing occurs in the first months of the year.

Built at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, probably around 1693, The Ribeira Market is located on Rua Bernardo Vieira de Melo, in the upper part of the city of Olinda, Pernambuco. It operated as a former meat, flour, fish and slave market.