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Dique do Tororo

Dam built by the dutch (NATURALLY!) a long time ago and recently reformed, Dique do Tororo is simply dazzling. In its surroundings you find good restaurants, places to work out at, sidewalk so you can promenade along the lake, benches for those in love, boats, canoes etc...

Address: Tororo

Other Contact: The dam is full of sculptures of

Ordem Terceira de Sao... Pelourinho Review

Ordem Terceira de Sao Francisco
Monastary beside Sao Francisco Church, in Pelourinho. Its facade was under a layer of cast and its details were only discovered about ten years ago, when it began to be restored! Behold, humans, and drool!

Address: Pelourinho

MAS MAS - Museu de Arte Sacra Review

MAS MAS - Museu de Arte Sacra Review

MAS - Museu de Arte Sacra da... MAS - Museu de Arte Sacra Review

MAS - Museu de Arte Sacra da Universidade Federal da Bahia (Sacred Art Museum of the Federal University of Bahia)
It's... beyond words! It's a very pleasant and beautiful museum, unfortunately not many people visit it! It's also nice to know that part of it was recuperated by reformed street kids trained by the Licee of Arts and Professions (Liceu de Artes e Oficios)!! Monthly there are free concerts there, all very astonishing!

Directions: Rua do Sodre, Paralel street from Av. Carlos Gomes. Map available on the site.

Other Contact: http://www.mas.ufba.br/

Concerts at Catedral Basilica... Catedral Basilica Review

Concerts at Catedral Basilica da Se - Salvador
Those concerts are absolutely wonderful! Sometimes it's organ and flute, sometimes it's choir and organ... it varies! But they happen every sunday by 10am and they are FREE and unforgettable! The cathedral is always crowded with all sorts and shapes of people, and the variety of the audience proves that art is a very effective way of getting to all hearts...

Address: Terreiro de Jesus, Pelourinho

Other Contact: Those concerts are promoted by t

OSBA - Orquestra Sinfonica da...

OSBA - Orquestra Sinfonica da Bahia (Bahia Sinphonic Orquestra).
Not only a very good orchestra, but also concerned about bringing culture to one and all. With a policy of letting the elderly attend the concerts for free and always reserving special chairs for those who cannot normally afford to watch a concert, they also play in hospitals, public schools, squares, museums, outdoor stages...

Directions: Their siege is at Teatro Castro Alves, at Campo Grande.

Other Contact: http://www.tca.ba.gov.br/inf_orq

Igreja da (Nossa Senhora da)... Churches Review

Igreja da (Nossa Senhora da) Conceicao da Praia - Church of Our Lady of the Conception of the Beach
Dazzling beautiful and where all the famous people get married - either here or at Vitoria church or Bomfim. The building was pre-made in Portugal and shipped in pieces to Brazil. The picture in the roof creates an illusion. (1739-1773). Irma Dulce, candidate of becoming the second brazilian saint in History, is burried in this church.

Address: Largo da Conceição da Praia (Cidade Baixa)

Other Contact: Phone: 242.0545 Hours: 6:30am t

Igreja de Nossa Senhora do... Churches Review

Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosario dos Pretos - Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Black
Very beautiful church, maybe the most ecumenical of them all, competing only with Bomfim and Sao Lazaro. Check the statues, the masses (the only ones I have the patience to attend! A lot of drums and happiness, not a glimpse of the atmosphere of guilt!)

Address: Pelourinho

Churches Review

Tiles of Sao Francisco Church