Praca da Se Salvador

Down Town, Salvador , State of Bahia, Brazil
  • Traveler Rating 3.50
    39 reviews 7 travel blogs 4 photos

    Attraction Type:

    Historic walking area, Town center/square/plaza

    Popularity

    15of 23 attractions in Salvador

Related BlogsPraca da Se Salvador

  • 1

    Back to my roots

    ... on the boat and chug back to the mainland, where we took the elevator back up to Pelourinho and dined in Bahia Cafe on the Praca da Se - we only went in to use the internet there but the food and drinks turned out to be delicious. I couldn't get hold of ...

  • 2

    Final destination

    ... to get us out short of bodily ejecting us into the street, so we wandered down to the main square (Praca da Se) to see a bit more carnival action. Salvador's carnaval is much grittier and less touristy than Rio's slick, sexy sambafest - there's ...

  • 3

    Just A Bit Further

    15 photos

    ... and saints in the paintings decorating the walls and ceiling have ugly, distorted faces.  The centre of the historical city is Praca da Se with its Elevado Lacerda.  This is a Lisbon-esque elevator that joins a high and low part of the city, ...

  • 4

    Music and Capoeria in Salvador, Brazil

    ... cobblestone streets. The area is filled with open aired markets selling mangos, passion fruits, guava and papaya. Aerea de Praca da Se Terreiro is quite possibly the most beautiful plaza I have ever seen. Three cathedrals are built around the plaza ...

  • 5

    our week in Salvador

    117 photos

    ... we have done well to ignore the sales pitches. We did get well and truly shafted one day though. We were walking through Praca da Se, and a heavy set black man with an eyebrow ring approached us with those little ribbons in his hand. He actually spoke ...

  • 6

    Bahia: Salvador & Chapada Diamantina

    124 photos

    ... every night in different spots of the center as well as in areas closer to the beach. In Salvador, I stay at the Hostelling International close to the Praca Da Se, a quite nice hostel where I meet very cool people including Claudio from Sao Paulo, ...

  • 7

    Day 1 in Salvador

    35 photos

    ... cruising, we decided that we’d had enough of feeling like targets so we went to a café on the corner of Praca da Se.  Julian’s doing well with the Portuguese, he ordered us some food called “pasteis,” they’re hard to ...