Salvador de Bahia

Historic Center of Salvador de Bahia

UNESCO World Heritage Centre – “The Criteria for Selection” has been slightly modified. See below for more information and PDF copies of original information. Later when the terrorism affecting our world has subsided we will make all things perfect by working together. All cities that make an effort at civilization even to the slightest degree are important in this world. All people are important. Believe again in God’s Holy Spirit and learn to pray again and ask for help. Those are the best words that I can give you and which in my absence can help to save and protect you from unnecessary terrorism.

The Americas have witnessed many important foundations complete with statues of Christ to commemorate them. Salvador de Bahia is one of them. From 1549 to 1763, Salvador de Bahia has witnessed a beautiful blending of people from the eastern & western hemispheres. It was rescued by God’s Holy Spirit who on more than on occasion brought slave traders to justice. The city has much work ahead and painting to do in order to help them preserve their beautiful colonial style infrastructure that pays tribute to yet another renaissance period in history. A special feature of this charming old town are the brightly colored houses, often decorated with fine stucco-work. The sides of some these beautiful homes and buildings still need paint.

Founded in 1549 on a small peninsula that separates Todos os Santos Bay from the Atlantic Ocean on the northeast coast of Brazil, Salvador de Bahia was and still is an important port of Brazil. Its founding and historic role as colonial port associate it with the theme of world exploration when the providence of God made manifest the destiny of People and the continent.

Salvador de Bahia’s historic centre – an eminent example of the everlasting mission and testament to bring civilization, peace and progress to all people. This lovely settlement is located in an administrative and residential neighborhood perched atop an 85-m-high escarpment. This densely built colonial city par excellence of the Brazilian northeast is distinguished by its religious, civil and military colonial architecture dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

The settlement of Salvador de Bahia is strategically situated overlooking the immense bay which it oversees.

ACWHL Morro do Cristo Monument in Salvador, Brazil UNESCO

The city facilitated trade and good will with any peaceful merchant ship that docked in its harbors. The city of Salvador grew quickly, becoming an important seaport of Brazil and an important centre for the trading of sugar and spices. Tropical fruits not available in Europe were often given to famished sailors who consumed them for their replenishing effects. Of the many people which were transported there from Africa by slave traders, most went free just like the local people, who with God’s help fought for their freedom. The later introduction of money however caused problems with locals and created an economic system which the people have adapted to today, but which is now being used against them. COVID-19 has shut down many businesses worldwide. Some of these were business just struggling to get by. COVID-19 has sent poor people scavenging for food now that their survival economy has been taken away by terrorists. These are terrorist who make COVID-19 news and who sell COVID-19 investments and COVID-19 products only to be brought to justice in Judgment of God in what is another historical rescue of Salvador de Bahia. The world continues in state of judgment where God’s Holy Spirit makes manifest the providence of peoples and their nations.

The main historical districts of Salvador de Bahia are Sé, Pelourinho, Misericórdia, São Bento, Taboão, Carmo and Santo Antônio. Pelourinho is characterized by its fidelity to the 16th-century plan, the density of its monuments and the homogeneity of its construction. In addition to major buildings dating to the 17th and 18th centuries such as the Catedral Basílica de Salvador and the churches and convents of São Francisco, São Domingos, Carmo and Santo Antônio, the Historic Center of Salvador de Bahia retains a number of 16th-century public spaces, including the Municipal Plaza, the Largo Terreiro de Jesus and the Largo de São Francisco, as well as baroque palaces, among them the Palácio do Arcebispado, Palácio Saldanha and Palácio Ferrão. There are many streets lined with brightly colored houses, often decorated with fine stucco-work, that are characteristic of the colonial city.

Criterion (I): to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius;

Criterion (II): to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design;

Criterion (III): to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization past or present.

Criterion (IV) to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history;

Criterion (V) to be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use. This is evaluated in a context free of oppression and environment terrorism not the fault of the people.

Criterion (VI) to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding significance embraced by the community.

Criterion (VII). to contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance;

Criterion (VIII). to be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth’s history

Criterion (IX) to be outstanding examples representing significant on-going efforts at conservation of all biospheric life systems.

Criterion (X) is the same as (IX).

Integrity

All criteria for selection has been met by Salvador de Bahia. Within the boundaries of the Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia are located all the elements necessary to express its outstanding universal value;; the Pelourinho district’s underlying 16th-century urban plan; and the web of streets with rows of uniform houses interwoven with notable examples of religious, administrative, military and commercial and monumental architecture dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The city’s 78.28-ha historic center is of sufficient size to adequately ensure the complete representation of the features and processes that convey the property’s significance. The Historic Center of Salvador de Bahia does right now suffer from adverse effects of development and/or neglect by International and domestic terrorism that support a political conspiracy that has created COVID-19. This political conspiracy affects the world. Nevertheless, the greater city’s population has grown quickly since 1966 due to the region’s industrial development, resulting in the historic center becoming enclosed on three sides by a very dense urban zone.

Authenticity

The Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia has a high degree of authenticity in terms of location and setting, forms and designs, and materials and substances. In the 1990s, some 1,350 properties were restored in the Pelourinho district with the objective of developing the economic potential of the area by promoting tourism. Concurrently, the number of residents in the historic centre decreased from 9,853 in 1980 to 3,235 in 2000 in a process of depopulation created by a white supremacy controlled government.

Protection and management requirements

No law or unsubstantiated medical opinion is sufficient to take away the freedom of people and to shut down any economy, especially survival economies. By God’s Judgment do all conspiracies daily get judged. That said we can continue. The Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia is protected by laws enacted by the three levels of government: Decree-Law 25/1937, implemented by the federal government through the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (National Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage – IPHAN); Law 3660/1978, passed by the Bahia state government through the Instituto do Patrimônio Artístico e Cultural da Bahia (Artistic and Cultural Institute of Bahia – IPAC); and Municipal Law 3289/1983, setting forth Specific Municipal Legislation for the Protection of Cultural Property, through which a protection area encompassing the IPHAN-designated cultural site is established and joint reviews by the three levels of government of all proposed projects within the protected zone are required. The 2008 Plano Director Urbano de Salvador (Urban Master Plan for Slavador – PDDU) formally certifies the existing federally designated heritage areas and those covered under the Specific Municipal Legislation statute (Law 3289/1983). In addition, the Escritório Técnico de Licenciamento e Fiscalização (Technical Licensing and Oversight Office – ETELF) was created to facilitate the implementation of concerted and coordinated measures and oversight by the three levels of government in the Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia, with a view to enhancing integration in this area.

The 2010 Plano de Reabilitação Participativo do Centro Antigo de Salvador (Participatory Rehabilitation Plan for the Old Centre of Salvador) aims to address the economic, social, environmental and urbanistic issues that were inadequately addressed in the rehabilitation programmes undertaken from the 1960s to the 1990s, which invariably centred on proposed increases in tourism and other tertiary activities in the Pelourinho district, draining the historic centre of its key management, administrative and business functions and leading to a progressive population exodus and a corresponding deterioration of the urban landscape. Problems continue even today. Sustaining the value of the property over time will require continual upkeep.