Salvador is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. Founded by the Portuguese in 1549 as the first capital of Brazil, it is one of the oldest colonial cities in the Americas. Its metropolitan area, housing 3,899,533 people, forms the wealthiest one in Brazil’s Northeast Region.
About Salvador, Brazil in brief
Salvador is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. Founded by the Portuguese in 1549 as the first capital of Brazil, it is one of the oldest colonial cities in the Americas. The Pelourinho district of the upper town was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985. The city’s cathedral is the see of the primate of Brazil and its Carnival celebration has been reckoned as the largest party in the world. Its metropolitan area, housing 3,899,533 people, forms the wealthiest one in Brazil’s Northeast Region. It was first reached by Gaspar de Lemos in 1501, just one year after Cabral’s purported discovery of Brazil. The first European to settle nearby was Diogo Álvares Correia, who was shipwrecked off the end of the peninsula in 1509. In 1531, Martim Afonso de Sousa led an expedition from Mount St Paul and, in 1534, Francisco Pereira Coutinho established the settlement of Pereira in modern Salvador’s Ladeira da Barra neighborhood. The present city was established as the fortress of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos in 15 49 by Portuguese settlers under Tomé de SOUSa, Brazil’s first governor-general. It became the seat of the first Roman Catholic diocese erected in Brazil in 1551. Its bishop was made independent of the Archdiocese of Lisbon in 1553 at the request of King Pedro II of Portugal. In 1844, the elevation of the Diocese of Luanda on January 13, 1844 serves as the national primate and premier see of Brazil; its bishop still serves as its premier and premier bishop.
Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova was the site of the city’s games during the 2014 Brazilian World Cup and 2013 Confederations Cup. Salvador lies on a small, roughly triangular peninsula that separates the Bay of All Saints, the largest bay in Brazil, from the Atlantic Ocean. The upper city formed the administrative, religious, and primary residential districts while the lower city was the commercial center, with a port and market. Salvador forms the heart of the Recôncavo, Bahia’s rich agricultural and industrial maritime district, and continues to be a major Brazilian port. In the Roman Catholic Church, Brazil and the rest of the Portuguese Empire were initially administered as part of the diocese of Funchal in Portugal but, in 1915, it became independent of that diocese and became the Dioceses of Lusitania and Luanda. By 1607, Brazil was divided into the separate governorates of north and south and Rio de Janeiro in the redivided Brazil. These were reunited in 1613 and 1613. In 1613, the city was divided again, with the north and the south being reunited in theredivided Brazil, then redivides to 1607 and 1607. It is the largest city in the Northeast Region and the 4th largest city proper in the country, after São Paulo, Rio de Rio and Brasília.
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