Monday, October 22, 2012

Salvador

Received from: Brazil
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: September 2012
Distance: 11097 km
Time of travelling: 20 days


Salvador is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of theNortheastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first colonial capital of Brazil, the city is one of the oldest in the Americas. For a long time, it was simply known as Bahia, and appears under that name (or as Salvador da Bahia, Salvador of Bahia so as to differentiate it from other Brazilian cities of the same name) on many maps and books from before the mid-20th century. Salvador is the third most populous Brazilian city, after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The metropolitan area of the city, with 3.5 million of people, however, is the seventh most populous Brazilian urban agglomeration, and the third in Brazilian Northeast Region.

1 comment:

  1. W tym Salvadorze mają naprawdę ładne kartki! To już któraś stamtą, którą widzę i która jest naprawdę śliczna.

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