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SALVADOR DE BAHIA
Salvador is the capital of the State of Bahia. Located between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator, it benefits from a hot-humid climate. It covers an area of 707 km² and has 2,762,750 inhabitants. Salvador is the third most densely populated Brazilian city and is considered the country’s mystical capital - given its 200 churches and the roughly 2000 places where Candomblè , the afro religion born from slaves to safeguard their traditions and to escape from the Church’s persecution, is practiced. Indeed, Salvador has the highest concentration of Africans outside Africa.
The city was founded in 1549 to be the capital of Portuguese America, and was Brazil’s capital until 1763, when it was replaced by Rio de Janeiro.
The city has a typically tertiary economic structure with activities mostly related to trade, services and tourism. The major products it exports are: coffee, tobacco, sugar, cotton, synthetic diamonds and petrol. It hosts many shipyards, sugar refineries, cotton mills and tobacco factories.
The city is characterised by its carnival which, with over 2 million participants and more than 800,000 tourists taking part every year, is the largest on the planet.
The city’s historical centre has been declared World Heritage by UNESCO.
USEFUL LINKS
http://www.emtursa.ba.gov.br/
http://www.pms.ba.gov.br/
REASONS FOR THE PARTNERSHIP
The City of Turin has established important relations with many Brazilian areas. Specifically, on September 8th 2003 it undersigned a cooperation agreement for the following reasons:
- Longstanding history of Piedmontese profit and non profit solidarity;
- Italian community in Brazil, due to the migrations of the last centuries;
- Groups of Brazilians - originating from the State of Bahia - living in Turin.
Further, the reasons for this partnership are based on the twinning between the Piedmont Region and the State of Bahia. The friendship and cooperation that exists between the two cities is well represented by Turin City’s awarding of an Honorary Citizenship to Father Clodoveo Piazza, Jesuit missionary who’s been based in Brazil for almost 30 years and is renowned for his work in favour of street children and youths living in extremely deprived conditions, on September 23rd 2005.