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Travel guide - Trancoso - Bahia - Brazil

Description: Useful and practical information in order to plan a travel in Trancoso and its surroundings.

Trancoso is a village located on the Atlantic coast of Brazil , in Porto Seguro municipality, capital of the Discovery Coast.

This is where Brazil was born, in the year 1500. 83 years later Trancoso (Saint John Baptist of the Indians) was founded by Jesuit priests. Profiting from an exceptional landscape they built Trancoso's unique beauty: an aerial architecture above the ocean, built around a square (called the “Quadrado”) with a white church in the center and colourful little houses in the periphery. This typical Jesuit form of settlement found the perfect match, settling on a cliff surrounding the Atlantic ocean and the luxurious vegetation of the coast.

The beaches of Trancoso and Porto Seguro are famous in Brazil. The sea side is made of kilometers of transparent waters, crossed by rivers and mangroves, Atlantic forest, cliffs in all textures of colors and coral reefs which made this place a safety harbour with warm and appealing waters.

The privileged geography makes Porto Seguro a real natural outdoor museum. Since 1973 it WAS declared a Natural National Patrimony by IPHAN (the National Institute of Arts and Historic Patrimony) and recognized by UNESCO as a Natural Patrimony of Humanity in 2000, exactly five hundreds years after its discovery.

www.Alegoria.net gives dense and clear information about Trancoso and its place of interest.

An easy navigation will help to discover an appealing overview of its surrounding; Arraial d'Ajuda, Porto Seguro, Cumuruxatiba and Bahia.

The practical information the site provides includes the list of touristic spots and accommodation, eco trips, transportation, information about culture music and history, with videos, search facilities and google maps to visualize the way.

The site has original and exclusive photos and information found nowhere else, as for exemple a whale skeleton located in a secret place of Trancoso or information about a Cumuruxatiba.
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