Legacy and Plenty — African Heritage with Afro-Bahian Banquet

The tour begins with pick-up from the hotel, in a private vehicle. We start at Farol da Barra, one of the historical entry points into Baía de Todos os Santos, and continue to Dique do Tororó, where sculptures of orixás mark the urban landscape as a first nod to the spirituality that runs through the entire route.

We went down Cidade Baixa, passing through the area of the old port and the former market for enslaved people — a moment of silence and reflection within the itinerary. In the Historic Center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, we visited Pelourinho and Museu Afro-Brasileiro, and continued this visual journey at the Pierre Verger Gallery, with the photographic collection of the French anthropologist who documented Afro-Bahian religiosity and life like few others.

We continue to the Memorial das Baianas, dedicated to the figure of the Bahian woman of acarajé — a living heritage of Afro-Brazilian cuisine and aesthetics — and stop in front of the Statue of Zumbi dos Palmares, the greatest symbol of black resistance in Brazil, for a moment of recognition and historical context. We also visited Igreja do Rosário dos Pretos, founded by one of the first black religious brotherhoods in the Americas, and the Sociedade Protetora dos Desvalidos — Monte Pio, one of the oldest black civil institutions in Brazil — before Casa do Benin, which celebrates the living ties between Bahia and West Africa.

The itinerary ends with lunch at a restaurant-institution dedicated to the preservation of Afro-Bahian cuisine, with buffet service — forty typical dishes and twelve desserts, a complete panorama of the flavors that crossed the Atlantic and were reinvented at Bahia. After breakfast, return to the hotel by private vehicle.