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Salvador Travel Guide

Museu Nautico da Bahia

The lighthouse, fort, and museum are mostly worth a visit for the views over the Bay of All Saints. Erected in 1534, the Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra was the first and most important Portuguese fortress protecting Salvador. It thus had the honor of being taken by the invading Dutch in 1624, and retaken the following year by a combined Portuguese and Spanish fleet. You can wander the halls and admire the military architecture, but there's no signage on the history of the fort. The museum inside the lighthouse contains a small collection of maps and charts, navigational instruments, and a number of archaeological finds from wrecks that the lighthouse obviously didn't help.

Explore Salvador

  ·Around Salvador
  ·Churches of São Francisco
  ·Cidade Baixa
  ·From Praça Municipal to Terreiro de Jesus
  ·Igreja do Bonfim
  ·Largo do Pelourinho
  ·Museu Afro-Brasileir
  ·Museu Nautico da Bahia
  ·Museu da Arte Sacra

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