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Discover Salvador: the city behind the postcard

Salvador is not a beach city with some history attached. It is one of the most important centres of Afro-Atlantic culture in the world, with a colonial core, a working bay and a coastline that changes character every few kilometres. Start here.

Colourful colonial facades and a baroque church tower on a cobbled street in Pelourinho, Salvador.
Colourful colonial facades and a baroque church tower on a cobbled street in Pelourinho, Salvador.
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Historic Center & Pelourinho

The colonial core, walked in the right order — with the history that the facades do not tell you.

Percussionists of a bloco afro playing drums in front of a colonial wall in Salvador.
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Afro-Brazilian Salvador

The museums, institutions and living practices that explain the city better than any postcard.