Two(ish) decades and an ocean away from that conversation with my grandma, I sat at a beach in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil ... with the horrors of its sordid history and the resistance of our ...

As the first capital of Brazil, from 1549 to 1763, Salvador de Bahia witnessed the blending of European, African and Amerindian cultures. It was also, from 1558, the first slave market in the New ...

The writer Itamar Vieira Junior says that to “feel the intensity of life on the streets of Salvador” in Bahia, Brazil ... Santos Gomes and Marcus J.M. de Carvalho. Rufino was an alufá ...

Considered the birthplace of modern Brazil, Salvador's tumultuous history has produced a unique ... capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia, Salvador de Bahia (better known as Salvador).

Salvador, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Bahia, features a multitude of culinary, fine art, dance, musical and ...