The Pelourinho, popularly known as the Pelô, is the name of a neighborhood in Salvador, which is located in the Historical Center of the city, which has a prestigious barroque colonial architectural complex that is part of the Historic Patrimony of the United Nations For Education, Experience and Culture.
The word pelourinho refers to a column of stone, normally situated in the center of a square, where the slavesexposed and punished.
Salvador was founded in 1549 by Tomé de Sousa, the first Governor-General of Brazil, and chose the place where the Pelourinho is located for its strategic location overlooking a high cliff at the port and part of the bay. O palacio Rio Branco was built by the first governor-general (top right icon).

A second elevator was built in 1930 in addition to the old one Lacerda (inaugurated in 1873) in order to connect the lower part of the city called Cidade Baixa of Salvador with the upper part called Cidade Alta (Pelourinho).The halls called Mercado Modelo (photograph in the center) in the bottom town of the capital Salvador width the name Cidade Baixa.

Old colonial fort called Santa Maria located in the Barra district
Ver: http://www.bahia.com.br/viverbahia/cultura/fortes-e-fortalezas

Boats, from the traditional to the tankers and the small beaches of the city of Salvador.

The Bonfim district is one of the best known in the city of Salvador for Basílica do Senhor do Bonfim and Lavagem do Bonfim.
It is located in the Península de Itapagipe, in the Cidade Baixa, bordered by the districts Ribeira, Massaranduba, Monte Serrat, Boa Viagem, Roma and Vila Rui Barbosa.
Other monuments are the Praça Divina and Praça dos Dendezeiros (antigo Campo dos Dendezeiros) whitch name is known for the existence of large plantations of palm trees producing dendê (oil) in this avenue during the early days of the city, plantations that stretched as far as Rue Henrique Dias.

The old district Ribeira is located in the lower town (Cidade Baixa) in Salvador. The Ribeira is known for its repair shops of all types of boats, but also for a few years ago, especially in the bay or Enseada dos Tainheiros racing rowers between the old teams of Itapagipe, Vitória, São Salvador and Santa Cruz.

The beaches of the city of Salvador or the outlying districts, from the popular districts (photographs on the left) to the beaches of the residential districts, which benefit from special care from the prefecture with grass and coconut trees, Increased police vigilance.

The services (shuttles) of the island with the city of Salvador are regular. Women dressed in local clothes wait for the landing dock for maritime shuttles to offer their traditional dish.

The Penha beach of the village Mar Grande, on the west coast of the island, offers its reef, these colors as well as the view of a small church once built on a point facing the sea. To look out onto the town of Salvador de Bahia