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Forte de Nossa Senhora de Mont Serrat
(Our Lady of Mont Serrat Fort)
This army fort is considered Brazil's
colonial period's most beautiful military construction, due to its harmonious
shape. Being built from 1583 on, on a strategic site, on top of the peninsula's
most advanced end, with a view to the city's port, it was completed in 1742,
with no changes on its original project, it remains as a command house guarded
by round bastioned walls and nine cannons. Its history is connected to heroic
resistance moments to the Dutch in 1624 and 1638. In 1624, when Governor Van
Dorth was visiting the fort, Brazilian soldiers killed the Dutch commander
nearby. Since 1993, the fort has been home to the Museu de Armaria, with some
heavy and light civil and military weapons, some of which were used by the army
in the past. From this fort, one can have the most privileged view of Baía de
Todos os Santos, seeing Salvador from one side and Ilha de Itaparica from the
other.
Address: Santa Rita
Durão Street (Humaitá Bridge)
Working hours:
Tuesday to Sunday from 09:30am until 12:00am and from 1:30pm until 5:30pm.
Phone:
(71) 313 7139
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