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Lacerda Elevator
Opened in December 1873 with a height of 191 feet (72 meters), the elevator's most famous Bahia then become the main means of transport between the two parts of the city.
Enough to carry 900 thousand passengers per month or an average of 28 thousand people per day at a cost of five cents per passenger for real, a journey of thirty seconds long.
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Barra´s Lighthouse
In the seventeenth century, the port of Salvador was one of the busiest and most important of the continent, and had to help craft that came to the Bay of All Saints, so the Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra was rebuilt from 1696, been receiving a beacon, the first in Brazil and the oldest of the Continent (1698), where is now called Watch the Farol da Barra and Barra. |
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Market Model
Opened in 1912, the market came the need to model a supply center in the Lower City of Salvador, is neighbor to the Lacerda Elevator and Historical Center / Pelourinho.
Now houses two hundred and sixty-three stores offering the largest variety of handicrafts, gifts and souvenirs of Bahia. |
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Nosso Senhor do Bonfim Church
To the people of Bahia, the Church of Bomfim is the largest center of Catholic faith, and those who, by syncretism, have in place the maximum point of religion.
Images of Our Lord of Bonfim and Our Lady's Guide to Portugal came from Bahia, arriving on 18 April 1745. |
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Pelourinho
Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, the Pelourinho is today a center of "effervescence" cultural.
The history of the neighborhood soteropolitano is closely linked to the history of the city, founded in 1549 by Tomé de Sousa, who chose the place where is located the Pelourinho by its strategic location - on top, near the port and the commercial area and a barrier . |
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Forte São Marcelo
The Fort of Our Lady of the popular and São Marcelo, popularly known as Fort of the Sea, was built on a small bank of reefs about 300 meters from the coast in 1623. He was initially with nineteen artillery pieces of various sizes and during the Dutch invasion of 1624. |