Pelourinho - Salvador Bahia
Salvador's Historic center is the space in to stand by construction's preserver the colonial city's and its memory Brazilian capital.
From Municipal Square - open within the dense tropical forest by the first general-governor, Tomé de Souza, in 1549 - to Larg
o de Santo Antonio Além do Carmor, battle field where Brazilian and Dutch soldiers from Campanhia das Índias Ocidentais fought in 1638. There are churches and places built by the religious orders that came from Europe. Its big space here is divided in three areas that you can go in one visit: from Praça Tomé de Souza to trreiro de Jesus, Pelourinho and from Largo do Carmo to Largo de Santo Antonio Além do Carmo.
Pelourinho is the worldly famous "must go" place for the city visitors. Walking by the slopes, square and sidewalks, you can see capoeira, carnival rehearsals, musical attractions, churches, museums, restaurants, bars and many craftwork places.
The Salvador's Basilic Cathedral is considered the richest expression of the baroque Luso-Brazilian art, keeping its interior and exterior walls in lioz stone. It has two towers and wooden vaults on the ceiling and inside, thirteen altars from renascent to rococo, a rosewood sacristy and frescos, spread on the ceiling. On the principal face of construction, above the church's doors, there are representations of the Jesuits Santo Inacio de Loyola, São Francisco Xavier and São Francisco de Borja. The museum, located inside the cathedral, keeps a precious collection of pieces from centuries 16th to 20th, works in gold and silver. Among these pieces is the painting of Nossa Senhora de São Lucas and the altars of the Martyr Saints and the Martyr Virgins, both dated from the 16th century. The Cathedral is the fourth church and the last reminiscent of the architectonic ensemble of the Jesus College.