Street art in Salvador de Bahia
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Map of street art in Salvador de Bahia (Brazil)
Salvador is the capital of the state of Bahia, Brazil, and the first city founded by the Portuguese in the Americas, in 1549. Brazil's third metropolis with more than three million inhabitants, it is the cradle of Afro-Brazilian culture — candomblé, capoeira, the Salvador carnival, and Bahian cuisine all find their historical center of gravity here.
Its historic Pelourinho center, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1985, lines up colorful colonial facades from the 17th to 19th centuries, enhanced by folk murals and large paintings inspired by Yoruba culture and Brazilian religious syncretism.
The street art scene here crosses the popular muralism of the Bahian tradition — candomblé figures, syncretized Catholic saints, colorful orixás — with contemporary artists like BIGOD, Criola, and TarcioV, who deploy a renewed Afro-Brazilian iconography across the city's facades.
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