Vitória is a neighborhood located in the southern zone of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It is made by the so-called Corridor of Victory, in addition to the Victoria Square (near the church, with a bust in honor of the governor Rodrigues Lima) and adjacent streets. Neighboring neighborhoods are Barra, Graça, Campo Grande and Canela.
It is the square meter most expensive city, costing around U.S. $ 7 mil para segment the class A, which concentrates its occupation around the margin of the coastal corridor of Victory, with the buildings of up to 35 floors and exclusive to cable with píers the sea.
It has some of the tallest buildings in Salvador as Margaret Costa Pinto 143m (43 floors) and Address of Cardinals 137m (40 floors).
The paving stones Portuguese back the opening of Avenida Seven in the last century, and the secular trees are planted a feature unique to this area of Salvador, populated of museums, schools, cultural centers and other services in arrondissement.
It has the traditional Church of Our Lady of Victory, which was tombada in October 2007 by the Institute of National Historical and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN).
Following the path of the old path of the Council, starts at the top of the ladder's Bar, where is the Church of Victory, the small square Rodrigues Lima, popularly called the Square of Victory, where he is a bust that honors the former governor Lima Rodrigues ; From there the road is called the Corridor of Victory, by extending a stretch with just over a kilometer in length and sheltering large cultural facilities in the city of Salvador, as well as a patrimony of the eclectic architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The name was originated from victory in the war of independence of Bahia, where the native troops took the city by the Portuguese government, to call the local hall of the Victoria where they marched.
Until the beginning of the 19th century was a suburb of Salvador, being busy from the second half by huge mansions with distinct architectural features of the then prevailing colonial style, partly sheltering the source imperial aristocracy that fugia the narrow and rugged streets of the historic center, as well as foreign traders English, French, Spanish and Italian new arrivals to the city of Bahia, who have settled in that stretch bringing innovations based on constructive principles hygienists Europe, separating their homes with side setbacks, gardens and health equity.
From the 20th century, with the swelling urban and social and economic transformations suffered by Salvador, the whole area gets into a deep process of property speculation, the verticalization (the building being built there Apollo XI, for decades the chief of the Capital), Destroying several architectural monuments. At the end of the'80s is the preservation intervention by the occupation and destination of many of the mansions public. However, until the present day there is a law of toppling specific to the collection site, leaving it unprotected against the advance of occupation disorderly.