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A Capoeira Performance

Capoeira dancers performing with their class on the street, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil

Capoeira dancers performing with their class on the street, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil

More than 4.5 million African slaves where stolen from Africa and brought to Brazil, mostly to work under inhumane conditions in plantations & mines for the Portuguese Conquistadores. They were forced to assimilate and to turn to Christianity (partly adapting this new religion to their own culture, creating for instance the Codomblé) and forbidden to practice anything that would look like self-defence or Martial Arts.

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Highlights Of Salvador De Bahia

Capoeira dancers performing with their class on the street, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil

Capoeira dancers performing with their class on the street, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil

There have been several highlights during our stay in Salvador de Bahia apart from visiting the Pelourinho … which is by the way far less interesting and not as well preserved than the colonial laid-back city of Olinda!

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