Capunga and Graças emerged from 19th-century settlements in the area extended from Camboa do Manguinho—today Parque Amorim (Amorim Park)—to the banks of the Capibaribe River.

Carlos Ivan de Melo is the son of Ms. Antônia da Paz Vieira de Melo and Mr. Manoel Vieira de Melo and was born in Olinda, at Rua Coronel João Lopes, formerly known as “Beco da Poeira” (Dust Alley), on the outskirts of Varadouro. In his childhood he admired the work of his aunt Julinha, a lady skille

The Carnivals of Recife and Olinda are mixed in the consolidation of commitment to the reveler, because the festival focus on popular participation.

The word carnival, derived from the Latin expression “carne levale,” began to become known around the 11th and 12th centuries and means “to remove the flesh,” that is, “abstention from the flesh” and is associated with the control of worldly pleasures.

According to historian Pereira da Costa, the earliest reference tothe origin of ‘Arraial’ village, the former name of the place, is from1630, when GenMatias de Albuquerque raised the Bom Jesus royal fort to protect the interior of Pernambuco from the Dutch.