Fort Santo Antonio da Barra

Fort Santo Antonio da Barra currently consists of the lighthouse “Farol da Barra” and the Maritime Museum “Nautico da Bahia”.

In the seventeenth century, the El Salvador Fort was one of the busiest and most important on the continent and hosted various ships carrying timber, sugar, cotton, tobacco and other raw materials.

The lighthouse, unfortunately, is closed to tourists, so you can visit the museum, which is especially interesting will be the remains of the Portuguese galleon Sacramento, sunk in the distant 1668, as well as various maps and navigation devices.

The lighthouse is built in the shape of a truncated cone 22 feet high and painted in a black and white strip. In 1937, the lighthouse lighting was made electric.