According to the inhabitants of the quilombo of Santa Rita of Bracuí, this cemetery, attached to the chapel of São José, was built for the enslaved community of Bracuí to bury their relatives and was used exclusively by the descendants of emancipated…
Located in Little Africa, Casa Omolokum--named after the food made for Oxum, the Afro-Brazilian deity of femininity, fertility, and prosperity--serves Afro-Brazilian dishes such as moqueca and acarajé. The restaurant is part of a collective that…
Cannons left from the original fortress of Santiago which included the Trem House for guarding artillery and the War Arsenal. The region where the museum is located was a military area until 1908, when the War Arsenal was transferred to Ponta do…
The Valongo Wharf was the main port of arrival of enslaved Africans in the Americas from 1811 until 1831, with an estimate of about one million people landing there. Many of them died shortly after disembarkment, and those who had survived the…