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Casa da Câmara e Cadeia
At the Casa da Câmara e Cadeia organized criminals ran the show upstairs and disorganized criminals were kept behind bars downstairs. The building dates to 1698 and served as the seat of the Bahian government in 1822. The old marble pillory was removed from out front after abolition.
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Centro Cultural Dannemann
In São Felix, the riverfront Centro Cultural Dannemann has modern art displayed throughout a converted warehouse. In a large room in the rear of the building, heavy with the rich smell of tobacco, women dressed in white with flowered head wraps sit at antique wooden tables rolling charutos (cigars), as has been done here since 1873. Dannemann cigars are considered Brazil's finest.
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Igreja da Ordem Terceira do Carmo
The Igreja da Ordem Terceira do Carmo has a gilded baroque altar, paneled ceilings and azulejos, and dates from 1702. A side gallery contains several polychrome Christs, imported from the Portuguese colony in Macao, and dripping with bovine blood mixed with Chinese herbs and sparkling rubies.
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Igreja de NS da Ajuda
Cachoeira's oldest church is the tiny Igreja de NS da Ajuda, built in 1595 when the town was known as Arraial d'Ajuda.
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Igreja de NS do Conceição do Monte
The climb to the 18th-century Igreja de NS do Conceição do Monte is rewarded only by views as it is closed to visitors.
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Igreja Matriz NS do Rosário
The Igreja Matriz NS do Rosário dates between 1693 and 1754. It has beautiful azulejos and a ceiling painted by Teófilo de Jesus. On the 2nd floor, the Museu das Alfaias contains remnants from the abandoned 17th-century Convento de São Francisco do Paraguaçu. The church is usually open mornings, but try knocking if it's closed.
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Museu da Boa Morte
For a small donation, members of the exclusively female Boa Morte (Good Death) religious society will lead you around their barren one-room Museu da Boa Morte. There are some good photos and usually members sit around in their whites, smoking pipes and gossiping. The society began as a sisterhood of slaves that assured dead slaves a proper burial and bought old slaves freedom, while on the side they passed information regarding slave uprisings and carefully disguised Candomblé events.
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Museu Hansen Bahia
The Museu Hansen Bahia occupies the birthplace and former home of Brazilian heroine Ana Nery, who organized the nursing corps during the Paraguay War. Today, it houses the work of German-Brazilian artist Hansen Bahia. Among his powerful block prints and paintings on the theme of human suffering, depicting primarily prostitutes and Christ, is a series of illustrations of Castro Alves' poem Návio Negreiro (Slave Ship).
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Museu IPHAN
Housed in an 18th-century colonial mansion, the humble Museu IPHAN displays colonial furnishings and priestly vestments.
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Santa Casa de Misericórdia
The municipality's oldest hospital, the Santa Casa de Misericórdia has a pretty chapel (1734) with a painted ceiling, gardens and an ossuary.
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Woodcarving Studios
Cachoeira has maintained a tradition of woodcarving with a heavy African flavor. Stop in on the ateliers (studios) of two of the best sculptors in town, Doidão (Rua Ana Nery) and Louco (Rua 13 de Maio), to get a sense of the local style.
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