Brotas (neighborhood)

The Salvador Metro (Brazilian Portuguese: Metrô de Salvador, commonly called Metrô or Sistema Metropolitano Salvador-Lauro de Freitas) is a rapid transit system serving Salvador city, the state capital of Bahia and the fourth largest city in Brazil. The current system is 34 km (21 mi) long and has twenty stations, which began partial public service on June 11, 2014. The system arrives until the center of the city of Lauro de Freitas also. It is operated by CCR METRÔ BAHIA Company. Additionally, Salvador is served by a 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway line known as the Suburban Line (Calçada-Paripe) that does not connect with the Metro. This suburban line will soon become a VLT line integrated to the 43 km (27 mi) of the subway of Salvador. The construction of the SMSL is carried out in an expansion divided in six stages that will integrate the traditional center of the city until Pirajá (later, until the district of Águas Claras, near Cajazeiras), and until the neighboring municipality of Lauro de Freitas through Line 1 and Line 2 respectively, totaling 41.8 kilometers (17.6 of Line 1 and 24.2 of Line 2) and 22 stations. As part of the efforts to implement integrated transportation in Greater Salvador, the subway assumes the role of structural trunk system, while the others must be complementary and feeder. Therefore, according to the requirement of integration put in the edict of the subway bidding of 2013, the subway is planned to coordinate with other related modalities: the Suburb Train, which currently operates with 13.5 kilometres (8.4 mi) of extension and 10 stations and must be replaced by the SkyRail Bahia monorail line, with the Blue Line and Red Line, which are transverse feeder roads in deployment to be covered by a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT), with conventional Soteropolitan municipal bus lines, of Laurofreitenses municipal buses and with the metropolitan ones.

The Swimming Olympic Centre of Bahia, also referred to as Aquatic Sports Centre of SUDESB, is a sports facility aimed for the practice of swimming in the city of Salvador, capital of the Bahia state in Brazil. It is currently under construction and is expected to be completed by the second semester of 2015. Its total area is 12.195,67 square metres, and consists of two Olympic swimming pools (50m and 25m), 500 seats, dressing rooms, a car park and other dependencies.

The Estádio Fonte Nova, also known as Estádio Octávio Mangabeira, was a football stadium inaugurated on January 28, 1951 in Salvador, Bahia, with a maximum capacity of 66,080 people. The stadium was owned by the Bahia government, and was the home stadium of Esporte Clube Bahia and Esporte Clube Vitória. Its formal name honors Octávio Cavalcanti Mangabeira (1886–1960), a civil engineer, journalist, and former Bahia state governor from 1947 to 1954.After part of the upper terraces collapsed in 2007, killing 7 people and injuring several others, the government of Bahia announced the demolition of Fonte Nova and the construction of a new stadium, the Arena Fonte Nova, in the same place. The stadium was nicknamed Fonte Nova because it was located at Ladeira das Fontes das Pedras.

The Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, also known as Complexo Esportivo Cultural Professor Octávio Mangabeira, is a football-specific stadium located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and has a maximum capacity of 48,000 people. The stadium was built in place of the older Estádio Fonte Nova. The stadium was first used for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the subsequent 2014 FIFA World Cup, including the 5–1 win of The Netherlands over reigning World Champions Spain. It was used as one of the venues for the football competition of the 2016 Summer Olympics.A group of architects from Brunswick, Germany, which also redesigned the old Hanover stadium into a modern arena for the 2006 Cup, was selected after bidding. Since 2013, the brewery Itaipava from Grupo Petrópolis has the naming rights of the arena "Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova" under a sponsorship agreement until the year 2023, amounting to $100m. This was the first naming rights agreement signed for the 2014 World Cup stadiums. The stadium was inaugurated on April 7, 2013, with a Campeonato Baiano game in which Vitória defeated Bahia 5–1. The first player to score a goal in the stadium was Vitória's Renato Cajá. During this match, some supporters were unable to see the game completely due to some blind spots. The stadium had excessive dust and some puddles. The company responsible for the stadium, owned by Grupo OAS and Odebrecht, said it was aware of the problems.On May 27, 2013 a section of the roof collapsed after heavy rain.

TV Bahia (channel 10) is a television station in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, affiliated with TV Brasil. The station is maintained by the Bahia Educational Radio Broadcasting Institute (IRDEB), a government body of the State of Bahia that is also responsible for radio station Educadora FM.

TV Aratu is a Brazilian television station based in Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia. It operates on channel 4 (25 UHF digital), and is affiliated with SBT . It belongs to Grupo Aratu, a media conglomerate owned by businessman Silvio Roberto Coelho, and which also includes Rádio Cultura de Guanambi, the Aratu On website, the outdoor media companies Ei! e Brasília and Chaves Outdoor. It is the second oldest television station in Bahia, after the then TV Itapoan (channel 5, founded in 1960), and the third most watched in Salvador and the metropolitan region.

Zoogodô Bogum Malê Rundó, also known as the Terreiro do Bogum, is a Candomblé terreiro in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It is located high in the Engenho Velho da Federação, or simply Federação neighborhood of Salvador on Ladeira do Bogum, a narrow street, formerly known as Ladeira Manoel do Bonfim. It is an area long associated with residents of Kingdom of Dahomey descent. The terreiro covers 1,000 square metres (11,000 sq ft), of which 600 square metres (6,500 sq ft) is used for and includes religious structures and open spaces.The terreiro is associated with the Jejé branch of the religion; it is both the first and last remaining Jejé terreiro in the region. It differs from other Candomblé terreiros of the Salvador region in its use of the Ewe language of present-day Benin, in contrast to the widespread use of Yoruba in other temples. The temple uses the term vodun for its deities in place of the more common orixás; it is one of its numerous similarities to Haitian Vodou. The Bogum community closely related to Jejé temples in Cachoeira, a small city in the Recôncavo Baiano in the interior of Bahia. The Zoogodô Bogum Malê Seja Undé (Roça do Ventura) terreiro in Cachoeira shares a lineage with Zoogodô Bogum Malê Rundó.

Band Bahia (channel 4) is a Rede Bandeirantes-owned-and-operated station licensed to the city of Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia. The station also serves as a regional flagship for the Northeast Region on special broadcasts. The station also extends its coverage beyong Bahia, with a relay station in Aracaju, Sergipe, which operates commercially as Band Aracaju.

The Church of Santo Antônio da Mouraria is a Brazilian Catholic temple, built in 1724 in devotion to Saint Anthony. The church is in Salvador, Bahia. It is a national historical heritage site, listed by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN), on June 17th, 1938, under the case nº 122-T-1938.

The Church of Saint Michael (Portuguese: Igreja de São Miguel), formerly known as the Capela do Senhor Bom Jesus da Via Sacra e São Miguel, is an 18th-century Roman Catholic church and former convent in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The church is dedicated, as evidenced by its original name, to Our Lord Jesus Crucified of the Via Sacra and Saint Michael the Archange. The church was donated to the Third Order of Saint Francis in 1744. It was listed as a historic structure by the National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute in 1938.

September Seven Avenue (Avenida Sete de Setembro in Portuguese) colloquially known as Seven Avenue (Avenida Sete in Portuguese) is an important road in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It starts at the Farol da Barra (Barra Lighthouse), Barra (Neighborhood), and ends at Castro Alves Square (Praça Castro Alves), Historic Centre. September Seven Avenue is the traditional route for many celebratory parades in the city of Salvador, Bahia, such as: carnival.

The Church of Saint Peter of the Clergymen (Portuguese: Igreja de São Pedro dos Clérigos) is an 18th-century Roman Catholic church in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It was constructed by the Brotherhood of Saint Peter in approximately 1709 and was renovated in the 18th and 19th centuries. The church was listed as a historic structure by National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN) in 1938 and is part of the Historic Center of Salvador UNESCO World Heritage Site.