Stone staircase
Pyramid-shaped.
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The Town Hall and Jail of Cachoeira is an 18th-century municipal building in the historic centre of Cachoeira, Bahia, on the Praça da Aclamação. Construction began in 1700 and was completed in 1712, after Cachoeira became a town by royal charter in 1693, and its design drew on Salvador's town hall, finished in 1698, a pattern repeated in the town halls of the towns around the Bay of All Saints. The building has two storeys and a broad pyramidal stone staircase, a rectangular plan and a hipped roof. The ground floor held two jail cells and a staircase, and the upper floor two cells for upper-class prisoners and rooms for the council's offices. Brazilian independence forces used it in 1822 during the war of independence, tying it to Cachoeira's leading part in that war. The building faces a broad boulevard leading to the Paraguaçu River, with the town of São Félix in view on the opposite bank. It now holds a small museum of the town's history; check its times. Cachoeira, with its protected old town, is visited on a day trip from Salvador.
Pyramid-shaped.
And São Félix.
Protected Cachoeira.
Praça da Aclamação, historic centre, Cachoeira, Bahia
Between 1700 and 1712, modelled on Salvador's town hall.