Pestana Convento do Carmo

Salvador


Set in a restored 17th-century convent, this magnificent hotel has elegantly furnished rooms with old-world details and modern comforts, and even more impressive common areas. There’s a stone chapel and arched walkways around the cloister.


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1. Igreja da Ordem Terceira do Carmo

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The original church, founded in 1636, burnt to the ground; the present neoclassical structure dates from 1828. The nave has a French organ and a baroque…

2. Escadas do Carmo

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Leading away from the Pelourinho, the steep Ladeira do Carmo provides access to the Escadas do Carmo, a wide set of steps that were the setting of O…

3. Igreja NS do Rosário dos Pretos

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4. Largo do Pelourinho

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Picture-perfect Largo do Pelourinho is a sloping, triangle-shaped square, once the site of the pelourinho (whipping post) – one of several nearby…

5. Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado

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6. Faculdade de Medicina Building

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A Portuguese prince, upon arrival in Salvador in 1808, founded a school of surgery here that was later named the Bahia School of Medicine.

7. Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia

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8. Museu Afro-Brasileiro

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