Feira de Santana
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About Feira de Santana
Feira de Santana sɐ̃ˈtɐ̃nɐ]; Portuguese for "Saint Anne's Fair") is a city in Bahia, Brazil. It is the second-most populous city in the state, with a population of 616,272 according to IBGE's census in 2022. It is located 100 km northwest of Salvador, Bahia's capital city. These cities are connected by BR-324, a four-lane divided highway.
Feira de Santana, formerly spelled Feira de Santa Anna, is named in honor of the cattle fairs held at the St-Anne-of-the-Fountains Plantation (Fazenda Sant'Anna dos Olhos D’Água) in the 19th century.
The St-Anne-of-the-Fountains Plantation was established in the 18th century by Domingos Barbosa de Araujo and his wife Anna Brandoa. Located at the edge of Bahia's "backcountry" (sertão), it became a center for the cowboys on their way from the pastures there to the port of Cachoeira. The cowboys' practice of starting annual fires to clear old brush eventually worsened the area's natural aridity to the point where the cattle industry collapsed, but by then Brazilians and foreigners had begun adopting the area as their home. A city began to develop with wide streets which were bordered by...
Feira de Santana travel guide
Understand
Feira de Santana is the second largest city in the state. Feira de Santana is the main urban, political, educational, technological, economic, real estate, industrial, financial, administrative, cultural and commercial center in the interior of Bahia
Getting there
By plane The closest airport with commercial flights is in Salvador.
By bus The Feira bus station receives buses from all over the country, operated by the most diverse companies. Among the main destinations are Salvador, Vitória da Conquista, Itabuna, Aracaju, Recife, Brasília, Asunción, Belém, Fortaleza.
By car Feira de Santana has a contour ring that connects different areas of the city. The city can be reached through many highways through the BR-116, BR-101 and BR-324, the latter being duplicated to Salvador.
See
Antares Astronomical Observatory (Observatório Astronômico Antares). Casa do Sertão. Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea). Feira de Santana Regional Museum (Museu Regional de Feira de Santana). Forest Garden (Horto Florestal). Paço Municipal. Parque da Cidade. Parque do Saber.
Do
Events Micareta de Feira - The biggest off-season carnival in the country. It always happens two weeks after Easter. ExpoFeira - Agricultural exhibition held at Parque João Martins da Silva during the month of September. São João de Maria Quitéria and São Pedro de Humildes - June festivities held in districts of the extensive rural area of the city.
Activities Walks in Parque da Cidade and Parque do Geladinho Theater plays by Cuca and the Amélio Amorim Cultural Center Tours on the Jacuípe River, Subaé and Paraguassu Stroll along Rua São Domingos, the birthplace of the city's bohemians
Buy
It has a large centers for the sale of imported products, Feiraguay, where you can find products of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and other origin bought in Paraguay by local bag sellers.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.