Mata de Sao Jose, Brazil
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Brazilian center of the Tamar Project for the preservation of turtles. Here too are the ruins of the Casa da Torre de Garcia d'Avila, a splendid 16th century country house of which the chronicler Fernão Cardim wrote: "It is the finest in all Brazil, entirely of stucco, ... with a six-sided vault and three doorways and luxuriant ornament." All that now survives is the massive arcading, a few stretches of wall and the hexagonal chapel with masonry vaulting and a pyramidal roof, of a type found in the Portuguese province of Alentejo.

22km/13.5mi north of Salvador is the Abaí beach. Within the city area is the Praia do Forte, and to the south are Itacimirim, Guarajuba (16km/10mi from the Praia do Forte), Barra do Jacuípe, Arembepe, Interlagos, Jauá, Busca Vida (51km/31.5mi) and Buraquinho (52km/32mi).