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Accommodation in Campeche, Praia dos Ingleses, Porto Seguro, Praia do Rosa and Trancoso

Accommodation in Brazil has five new blog posts, with full listings of accommodation in Campeche and Praia dos Ingleses, both in Florianópolis, and Porto Seguro, Praia do Rosa and Trancoso.

Maps of the Arraial d’Ajuda & Porto Seguro region

Here’s two maps of the Arraial d’Ajuda and Porto Seguro region, with the most important beaches highlighted as well as other places of interest.

ARRAIAL D’AJUDA
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PORTO SEGURO

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Brazil in pictures: the marco of the discovery

It all began here. In the Cidade Alta of Porto Seguro you will find the marco do Descobrimento, a stone brought from Portugal at the beginning of the XVI century. Its mission was to affirm Portuguese sovereignty over the place where the stone was placed. Porto Seguro had been, after all, the entry point for [...]

Brazil in pictures: Porto Seguro

On my last visit to Porto Seguro, the monument to the Portuguese discoverers had just been inaugurated. When I took the pictures the monument was not even a week old, it was all nice and clean. There are two groups of sculptures. The first one recreates the first mass held on Brazilian land by the [...]

Destination: Porto Seguro

Porto Seguro es the mecca for mass tourism in Brazil. Of all the domestic destinations that can be reached by plane, none is cheaper than Porto Seguro. As a result, hordes of Brazilians invade the city nearly all year round.
WE LIKE THE MOST: the historic part of the city, the beaches to the north
WE LIKE [...]