A Ilha de Itamaracá (Itamaracá Island) Today i will talk about a island near my city that it's called Ilha de Itamaracá (Itamaracá island). It's located on North from my city. It's about 40Km far away. This place is really interesting because it has a lot of historic things to see, besides that, it's on the coast, that makes it prettier. Today i am going to introduce you the "Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição" (The Saint of Conception from Portugal) and the "Forte Orange" a fort (i don't know how to write "forte" in english, because it does't mean "strong") that was built by the Holland people. The Name Itamaracá comes from Tupi language, that it is a language spoken by the indigenous from Brazil, and it means stone that sing. Itá = pedra (stone) and mbara'ká (rattle). I and few friends went there yesterday to explore and i took some pictures thinking to write this text. It's a historic place because the Portuguese people have been there for colonizing the land. But if you read my other english Text about Recife, you will remember that the Holland people have been here for 16 years. Thus, you can imagine what happened. They had conflits to dispute the land. Furthermore, the French came to have a battle as well and then they have ocupped that land during the Sixteen Century. Before to arrive on the beach, where it's located the Forte Orange, it has a old village that it's called "Vila Velha" (Old Village) and there is the Saint Conception's Church. This church is really old and it was built by the French people when they have been here. The Church still has some of the original pieces. The "Forte Orange" is something about 3Km far from the Church. And something really interesting is that there is a tunel from the Church to the Fort Orange, that it was used so escape case the enemies were coming. The Fort Orange is really massive and its color is really orange. It wasn't possible to see too much there because they were fixing something there. Even though, we enjoyed so much. Even being on my city sometimes i like going out to explore and understand more and more my, your and our history, that they are connected. In Northeast from Brazil we have a loads of place like this to visit, because it has been explored several times by the reason that it is on the Atlantic sea, what made it easier for the people from Europe to get here.