Barbalho Fortness - Salvador - BA

The cultural occupation of Forte do Barbalho is wonderful. Several artistic collectives offering courses, shows and wonderful services for production, training and artistic appreciation.

I'm really neutral in this evaluation because I don't know enough about this place!

Happy to be able to contribute, with information that elevates our art and promotes Bahian culture!

The Fortification is quite interesting despite keeping a very sad part of our history, but I am happy to see today a space being used in a cultural way. May it grow much more in this direction

The fort gave its name to the neighborhood located on land that belonged to the master of field Luiz Barbalho Bezerra, from where it was baptized. In the colonial period it was known for some time as Campo do Barbalho, a name that still appears in Moraes10, in 1866, in the Parish of Santo Antônio Além do Carmo. That character was involved in several relevant episodes in the colony, including the initiative to build, in 1638, "military defenses", in the area where, in 1736, the fort that would also bear his name would be definitively installed, whose works were completed in the last year, as indicated on a commemorative plaque affixed to its premises. As a reference to the history of Forte do Barbalho – the largest in the defensive circuit of Salvador – it is said that, after the Independence of Portugal, "when the mandatory existence of the House of Chamber and Jail in a single building ceased, there was the prison It has been a hospital, has housed Army and Police [Military] troops"11. Professor Silva Lisboa served his sentence in its premises, author of the murder that went down in history with the name of "the crime of the golden bullet" (see Júlia Fetal – In: Ruas). Luiz Barbalho Bezerra was also one of the members of the triumvirate that, in the absence of the viceroy, D. Jorge de Mascarenhas [Marquês de Montalvão], improperly exercised the government from 12 April 1641 to 26 August 1642 In addition to Barbalho, Bishop Pedro da Silva Sampaio and Chief Provedor Lourenço de Brito Corrêa took over the government. D. Jorge de Mascarenhas would have been deposed on the initiative of the Jesuit Francisco de Vilhena, to whom King João IV had granted extraordinary powers to investigate suspicions against the viceroy. The latter was accused of "in consequence of having two sons in Europe, who had remained linked to Spanish rule, he became suspect to the new government of Portugal". Uniting himself with the bishop, the royal emissary had [...] the viceroy sent to the College of the Company, and guarded him until he was sent back to Lisbon, forming false accusations. His innocence, zeal, and honor with which he had behaved, however, had been known at court, the bishop was harshly reprimanded by the King, and his companions in the government punished. It is said that Barbalho and Brito Corrêa "were sent to Portugal, where they were punished". Commenting on the episode, Braz do Amaral explains that [...] it became clear that the Bishop's procedure had been dictated by his desire to assume power, exercise authority and enjoy the privileges inherent to the high office he had unduly seized. He was forced to repay the money he had received as president of the board. (In History of Salvador in the names of its streets, by Luiz Eduardo Dorea)