Been to Town Hall and Prison of Jaguaripe, or dreaming of it?
Join BucketList to rate it, put it on your bucket list, and see where your friends have been. It's free.
22,000+ places in 198 countries to rate and rank
Photo: Turismo Bahia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
City hall and historical good listed by the Bahia Artistic and Cultural Heritage Institute in the city of Jaguaripe
The Town Hall and Prison of Jaguaripe is an 18th-century municipal building in Jaguaripe, Bahia, Brazil. It was inaugurated in 1697 and served as a town hall, prison, and occasional housing for military troops. The structure is visible from much of the surrounding region, and served as a model for town halls built both in the Recôncavo and sertão regions of Bahia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was listed as a historic structure by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage in 1941 and remains a municipal building of Jaguaripe. By tradition the prison had a cellar, the "Prison of Salt", a dungeon that flooded according to the tides of the river.
