Brazil
When
Sept to Nov | March-April
Price
From 2 700€ excl. flights
(based on 2 people sharing)
How long
6 nights
Ideal length
Salvador de Bahia, Brazil's first colonial capital, concentrates the country's most vivid African heritage: the Pelourinho, a UNESCO-listed historic centre with colourful facades, resounds with afoxé drumming and impromptu capoeira circles, while candomblé terreiros keep alive Yoruba-rooted religious practices passed down since the era of slavery.
The Pelourinho, the largest ensemble of Portuguese colonial architecture in the Americas, is explored to the sound of drums: open-air capoeira classes, Afro-Brazilian percussion schools like Olodum, and gold-covered baroque churches, including São Francisco, whose interior rivals the richest in Portugal.
A guided visit to a candomblé terreiro, with the religious community's prior agreement, offers insight into this Afro-Brazilian faith born of the forced encounter between Yoruba traditions and colonial Catholicism. Bahian cuisine, a direct heir to this history, is savoured from the baianas do acarajé, street vendors in traditional dress who fry acarajé, black-eyed pea fritters, along entire streets of the centre.
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Fera Palace Hotel
A fully renovated 1940s Art Deco hotel, facing the Bay of All Saints, steps from the Pelourinho.
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A former 17th-century convent turned boutique hotel, monks' cells converted into rooms, a silent cloister at the heart of the lively city.
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