Salvador (
Saviour, often colloquially
Salvador da Bahia; historic name:
São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, in English: "City of the Holy Saviour of the Bay of all Saints") is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
Salvador is also known as
Brazil's capital of happiness due to its countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first colonial capital of Brazil, the city is one of the oldest in the Americas. For a long time, it was simply known as
Bahia, and appears under that name (or as
Salvador da Bahia,
Salvador of Bahia
so as to differentiate it from other Brazilian cities of the same name)
on many maps and books from before the mid-20th century. Salvador is
the third most populous Brazilian city, after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The metropolitan area of the city, with 3.5 million of people, however, is the seventh most populous Brazilian urban agglomeration, and the third in Brazilian Northeast Region.
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The
Historic Centre of Salvador was designated in 1985 a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The city represents a fine example the Portuguese urbanism from the middle of the 16th century with its higher administrative town and its lower commercial town, and a large portion of the city has retained the old character of its streets and colourful houses.
As the first capital of Portuguese America,
Salvador cultivated slave labor and had its "pelourinhos" pillories
installed in open places like the terreiro de Jesus and the squares know
today as Thomé de Souza and Castro Alves. The "pelourinho" was a symbol of authority and justice, for some, and lashings and injustice for the majority. The one erected for a short time in what is now the Historical Center,
and later moved to what is now the Praça da Piedade (Square of Piety),
ended up lending its name to the historical and architectural complex of
Pelourinho, part of the city's historical center.
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Date of Inscription on the List of UNESCO WHS: 1985
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| Date of Issue: October 3, 2013 - Diplomatic Relations |
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