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Amaralina, Salvador — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Amaralina is a bairro of Salvador, the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia, and Rio Vermelho is its closest neighbour.
About Amaralina
Where to stay in Amaralina
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
A bed here is a Salvador-wide decision. Amaralina is one bairro among the many that make up a municipality laid out on the spit of land separating the Bay of All Saints from the Atlantic, so the useful question is which part of the city suits the trip rather than which street. Rio Vermelho is about a kilometre off, and Pituba and Itaigara sit a few minutes further by road.
If you have come for Salvador's music, cooking and old architecture, weigh the older quarters as well. The city is large.
About Amaralina
What are the main landmarks in Amaralina?
Salvador keeps its monuments elsewhere. The city's museum stock, the Afro-Brazilian Museum and the Museum of Sacred Art and the Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado among it, is registered to Salvador as a whole rather than to Amaralina or to any single bairro. What Amaralina has instead is position.
Rio Vermelho is the nearest of its neighbours, and Pituba and Itaigara follow within a few kilometres. Salvador itself was founded in 1549.
What is the history of Amaralina?
Amaralina has no founding date of its own. Its history is the municipality's: Salvador was founded in 1549 by Tomé de Sousa, when the Portuguese Empire set up the General Government of Brazil, making it the first capital of Colonial Brazil and one of the oldest cities in the Americas. Bahia has been a state of Brazil since 1889.
Amaralina appears in that municipal frame, alongside neighbours such as Rio Vermelho and Itaigara. That inheritance is city-wide.
Where is Amaralina?
Amaralina belongs to Salvador, the municipality set between the Bay of All Saints and the Atlantic, with Rio Vermelho about a kilometre away.
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Updated August 2026