5120 x 3413 px | 43,3 x 28,9 cm | 17,1 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2006
Ubicazione:
Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, South America
Altre informazioni:
Founded in 1998, the museum has a valuable collection of artifacts retrieved by Brazil’s first marine archeology project. its holdings reflect 17th-century life in Salvador, Brazil’s original capital and a major trading center for three centuries. Fort Santo Antonio da Barra was built in 1534, 16 years before the founding of Salvador. Rare artifacts that spent 300 years under water help visitors experience important aspects of daily life in colonial Brazil and understand the presence and significance of the sea and seafarers for the development and consolidation of Brazilian society. The museum houses part of Brazil’s maritime technology including South America’s first lighthouse. This institution’s educational and scientific focus is on Bahia’s history, culture and maritime past. which is only natural in a city born from the sea. Fort Santo Antônio da Barra – First fort built in the city, it had the function of hindering the enemies entrance in Todos os Santos Bay. Initiated in 1582, it got the shape of an irregular polygon with ten sides, six salient and four re-entering angles; its current dimensions, however, just came about in the 17th century. The first wooden lighthouse, which functioned with whale oil, was made in 1696 and it indicated the entrance of the bay, alerting to the dangers of the coral reef or sandbank of Santo Antônio – the current iron lighthouse, working with electricity, was built in 1836. In the fort, there are a restaurant, a bar and the Nautical Museum, with exhibitions of old maps, navigation equipment, models of vessels, artillery pieces and remains of shipwrecks that happened in Barra, mainly Galeão Sacramento‘s.
