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Recife Brazil We are standing in Praça do Carmo, in the city of Olinda. Here we find the Carmo Church, built on the ruins of a convent linked to the Carmelite Order, whose original construction dates back to 1580, which was during the first decades of Portuguese colonisation in Brazil.
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