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Salvador, BA
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presents to its visitors the
Guide to Salvador, Bahia, Brasil with
quick and essential information to help you prepare your trip to this
Brazilian colonial and historical city.
Salvador, Brazil's first Capital, is a cheerful city, and discovering
this wonderful town will be a very interesting experience, mainly if you
are interested in history, baroque arts and architecture... and nice beaches!
Salvador has a lot of surprises to you. So, let's introduce them
to you
> The All Saints Bay
Salvador, founded in 1549, by the Portuguese
Tomé de
Souza, is situated at the entrance of a very large bay, the All Saints
Bay (
Baía de Todos os Santos).
This exciting city, with a preserved cultural, historical and architectural
patrimony, is famous too for its folklore, the
capoeira, its colours
and rythms and spicy cooking. The
bahianos hospitality charms visitors.
Salvador awaits your visit
Among other
historical and colonial cities of Brazil (Olinda, São
Luís, Tiradentes,
Ouro
Preto, Mariana and Diamantina),
Salvador deserves surely to
be included in your itinerary when traveling to Brazil: its Old Quarter,
the
Pelourinho, is declared
World Cultural Patrimony by
Unesco.
And, last but not least, besides all
Salvador major attractions
(See Discover for more details), the city's
Carnival is one of
the most animated from Brazil.
> Baroque Treasuries
Salvador has some of Brazil's most important baroque churches as
the marvellous
São Francisco Covent, the
Ordem Terceira
de São Francisco church, and The
São Bento Monastery, which
keep some of Brazil baroque's greatest treasuries, religious as well as
profane, as in other historical cities.
A week in Salvador
If you include Brazil baroque treasures in in your trip, it is worth to
include
Salvador. A week will suffice to discover its main monuments
and churches.
