As Catatumbas de Mercado Modelo

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Below Mercado Modelo, a huge marketplace that used to mark the water's edge Salvador's port that now caters more or less to tourists, these catacombs housed the sick and injured Africans who were considered unsuitable for slavery. The building was constructed knowing that the tide would rise and fill to the roof of the catacombs.

(Very somber, but the history is incredibly important.)