Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
November 3rd 2009 We stayed in the historic center of Salvador known as the Pelourinho (Pel).
In English, "Pelourinho" means whipping-post. It was named as such because it is where Africans were sold into slavery upon arriving in Salvador. Most of the buildings in the Pel were built while Brazil was a Portuguese colony. Brazil was the seat of the Portuguese Monarch during the period that Napoleon's Army pos
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