Travel Guide Ilha De Itaparica

In front of Salvador, a very popular island, crowded on weekends and summer. Around 1547, the Jesuits built one of the first churches in Brazil, in Baiacu, this village on behalf of fish. It may be a symbol, the church is in ruins, but it is supported by a gamleera, a sacred tree of the candomwheat. The island is one of the few to offer mineral water sources. In the seventeenth century, she was, until the fighting of 1822, the last bastion of Portuguese supporters. Mata Atlântica lasted here, and villages are quiet. Maybe because the former governor of Bahia has always held a residence there? The whale was fished in the seventeenth century. Their oil was used to illuminate sugar mills so that slaves work at night. The population, which manufactures straw objects, increases considerably during the summer. The beaches are beautiful, but the one of Mar Grandela, the main one, is polluted. We can bathe after Penha. Further south, Caixa Prego beach is pleasant and healthy. At Vera Cruz there are the most frequented beaches. At the building of Itaparica there are still colonial buildings to visit, more tourist infrastructures as well. You can easily reach Bom Despacho (no special interest) and Mar Grande by ferry from Salvador.