Feira de Santana

municipality of Bahia State, Brazil

Feira de Santana is a city of 616,000 people (2022) in the Bahia Interior, in Northeastern Brazil.

Understand

Feira de Santana is the second largest city in the state. Feira de Santana is the main urban, political, educational, technological, economic, real estate, industrial, financial, administrative, cultural and commercial center in the interior of Bahia 

Get in

By plane

The closest airport with commercial flights is in Salvador. 

By bus

The Feira bus station receives buses from all over the country, operated by the most diverse companies. Among the main destinations are Salvador, Vitória da Conquista, Itabuna, Aracaju, Recife, Brasília, Asunción, Belém, Fortaleza.

By car 

Feira de Santana has a contour ring that connects different areas of the city. The city can be reached through many highways through the BR-116, BR-101 and BR-324, the latter being duplicated to Salvador.

Get around

See

  • Antares Astronomical Observatory (Observatório Astronômico Antares). 
  • Casa do Sertão. 
  • Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea). 
  • Feira de Santana Regional Museum (Museu Regional de Feira de Santana). 
  • Forest Garden (Horto Florestal). 
  • Paço Municipal. 
  • Parque da Cidade. 
  • Parque do Saber. 

Do

Events 

  • Micareta de Feira - The biggest off-season carnival in the country. It always happens two weeks after Easter.
  • ExpoFeira - Agricultural exhibition held at Parque João Martins da Silva during the month of September.
  • São João de Maria Quitéria and São Pedro de Humildes - June festivities held in districts of the extensive rural area of ​​the city.

Activities 

  • Walks in Parque da Cidade and Parque do Geladinho
  • Theater plays by Cuca and the Amélio Amorim Cultural Center
  • Tours on the Jacuípe River, Subaé and Paraguassu
  • Stroll along Rua São Domingos, the birthplace of the city's bohemians

Buy

It has a large centers for the sale of imported products, Feiraguay, where you can find products of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and other origin bought in Paraguay by local bag sellers.

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