View of the historic center from Salvador

Bahia, the cultural heart of Brazil.

Anyone looking for Brazil should start where Brazil began.

Salvador was the country's first capital and remains its historical and cultural core. It is here that African-based religiosity, palm oil cuisine and the Bahian way of living are still alive — not staged.

Our family has been rooted in Salvador for over 200 years. This is not curation from the outside looking in: it means access, personal relationships and responsibility for what we share and how we share it.

Company established in 2012 · family rooted in Salvador for over 200 years

90%

foreign guests

Basket with offerings of white roses and rue on white cloth, prepared for Iemanjá

From inside

Tourism with soul cannot be improvised with three days of research.

We work with a limited number of groups per season because each itinerary depends on real people: mothers of saints, cooks, sloop masters, historians. Relationship, not supplier.

Our story

Testimonials

“It wasn't a tour. It was entering the house of someone who knows every door in the city and chose which ones to open for us.”

Claire M. · Paris, France

“I have been working with Brazil for twelve years and I have never had such a precise local partner in Bahia. My clients come back talking about people, not tourist attractions.”

Andrew T. · Travel advisor, London

“Recôncavo's historical reading changed the entire trip. We arrived as tourists and left with context.”

Hanna & Lars · Stockholm, Sweden

Your journey, in three steps

  1. Tell what you want

  2. Receive the proposal within 1 business day

  3. Confirm with pre-booking

Tell us what you want to understand about Bahia. We draw the path.

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