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Extract from the Igarassu Travel Guides: Turning off the highway past Olinda's ugly industrial suburb of Paulista, the road wends its way through a rich green landscape of rolling hills and dense palm forest. The first town on the route is
IGARASSU
, 25km from Olinda, an old colonial settlement built on a ridge rising out of a sea of palm trees: the name means "great canoe" in the language of the Tupi Indians, the cry that went up when they first saw the Portuguese galleons. The town was founded in 1535, when during a battle with the Indians the hard-pressed Portuguese commander vowed to build a church on the spot if victorious; the
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