Porto Seguro - Bahia - Brasil - Luxury House to Rent

STOP PRESS! This house is for Sale for offers around £45,000 (US$90,000) Please use the Property Listing Page for more info The house is one of six and situated in the quiet residential area of Paraiso dos Pataxós around 7km north of Porto Seguro and very close to the beach at Taperapuã. The Pataxós are the indigenous Brazilian Indian tribe many of whom still live nearby.

One of the many waterside cocktail stalls in the town.

Every week, there is a thriving and colourful market selling fresh fish, meat,fruit and vegetables.

There are several PADI dive companies in Porto Seguro catering for divers of all abilities. They can also arrange 'Try Dives' for those who would like to try it.

The city with its 500 years of history supports a vibrant and friendly community

Porto Seguro rarely sleeps. There is entertainment somewhere near the town every night of the week.

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If you are looking for some serious relaxation, in a city with a fantastic climate, why not stay in our modern two bedroom house situated only 300 metres from a palm tree lined tropical beach.

Investment opportunity or just live on the beach! This house is now for sale.
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This recently built, well furnished house sleeps up to six people and is less than five minutes stroll from the beach.

Porto Seguro in southern Bahia, Brazil, is an exciting city with plenty to do from relaxing by the beach with a cool beer, to scuba diving close to the reef which runs for many miles along the coast. At night, you can mingle with both local people and tourists in the main town, catching a drink from a nearby cocktail stall and buying presents for those unlucky friends and relatives back home. Eating at a river side restaurant is surprisingly cheap with a huge range of different dishes from all over the world to choose from.

Porto Seguro lays claim as the originator of the Lambada, The rhythm originated in the Amazon, was later adopted by Bahians, of Porto Seguro who proceeded to create the steps...and the rest is history!

A short drive north is Coroa Vermellho. At low tide, you can walk out on a sand bank and onto the coral reef nearly half a mile from the beach and look at the fish life or just swim in the calm, warm waters inside the reef.

There are many local travel agencies who organize tours that can last from 3 hours to more than one day. Schooners leave daily to Recife de Fora, the coral reefs that at low tide form pools with crystal-clear waters providing fantastic snorkelling opportunities. Other popular options are an excursion up the Buranhém River or trips to Coroa Alta, Trancoso and Caraíva.
People have been coming to Porto Seguro for over 500 years, since Cabral 'discovered' it. Join them and discover its excellent beaches, many good restaurants serving fine food from all over the world, its exciting nightlife and rich cultural heritage. Porto Seguro`s friendly people will take you to their hearts and you will want to return again and again.

Porto Seguro has been a favourite vacation destination for Brazilians for many years. Now it is being `Re-discovered` by Europeans. The climate is tropical and being in the southern hemisphere, its seasons are reversed which means temperatures around 25 centigrade during the European summer and 28-30 during our winter!

Getting to Porto Seguro is now easier than ever, with many airlines flying from all over the world to Porto Seguro.

Come to Brazil to experience the warm and vibrant culture which is Porto Seguro. The city where the world comes on holiday.

The Start of Brasilian History

The most popular destination in southern Bahia is the resort area around the town of PORTO SEGURO , where Cabral "discovered" Brazil in 1500.

Founded in 1526, it has some claim to being the oldest town in Brazil, and buildings still survive from that period. The story goes that in 1500 Pedro Alvares Cabral and his men, alerted to the presence of land by the changing colour of the sea and the appearance of land birds, finally saw a mountain on the horizon, which must have been Monte Páscoal, to the south of today's Porto Seguro.

First landfall was made on Good Friday, on a beach to the north of Porto Seguro, and the anchorage Cabral used was probably the cove where the village of Santa Cruz de Cabrália now stands.

The Indians were friendly at first, though they might have been better advised otherwise, since Cabral claimed the land for the king of Portugal, and thus began over three centuries of Portuguese rule.

These days Porto Seguro is about as far as you can get from pre-colonial tranquillity. It's become one of the biggest holiday resorts in Brazil, and heaves with Brazilian tourists throughout the year, reaching saturation point at New Year and Carnaval. You may actually enjoy yourself here if your main interest is nightlife, but you've got to like crowds, and don't expect much peace and quiet. All the same, Porto Seguro has somehow managed to retain its reputation as a fairly classy destination. The Town The colonial area, Cidade Alta , is built on a bluff overlooking the town, with fine views out to sea and across the Rio Buranhém. The Igreja da Misericórdia here, begun in 1526, is one of the two oldest churches in Brazil. The Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Pena , nearby, dates from 1535 and has the oldest religious icon in Brazil, a St Francis of Assisi, brought over in the first serious expedition to Brazil in 1503. There are the ruins of a Jesuit church and chapel (dating from the 1540s) and a small, early fort; the squat and thick-walled style of the churches shows their early function as fortified strongpoints, in the days when Indian attacks were common. Near the ruins of the Jesuit college is the Marca do Descobrimento , the two-metre-high column sunk to mark Portuguese sovereignty in 1503; on one side is a crude face of Christ, almost unrecognizable now, and on the other the arms of the Portuguese Crown. Cidade Baixa , below, is where the modern action is.

The riverside Avenida 22 de Abril and its continuation, Avenida Portugal, are a mass of bars, restaurants and hotels - so much so in fact that Avenida Portugal changes its name at night to become the Passarela do Álcool, or "Alcohol Street". One stretch of road - where competing stallholders urge you to try their fiendishly strong cocktails - particularly merits this name. North of town, a string of superb beaches stretch along the Beira Mar coast road. The nearest, Praia Curuípe , is 3km away and has some natural pools and reefs, as well as the usual beachside restaurants. More popular, and just a few kilometres further away, is Praia Itacimirim . These beaches, and others further north (notably Mundaí and Taperapuã, both good for scuba diving), are connected to Porto Seguro by regular seafront buses.