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The HISTORY OF THE COCOA AND THE APHRODISIAC ATTRACTIONS - Gabriela Carnation and Cinnamon, Cocoa, Lands of the Endless, are some of the titles of romances of the most illustrious of the ilheenses:
Jorge Amado, as well as ingredients that are part of the culture of this earth, taken a bath by a lot of sun and of a blue-greenish sea that it changes of tone in agreement with the brightness of the season.
The city is aphrodisiac in the climate, in the landscape and especially in the cookery, to the fish base, shrimp, lobster, crab and an infinity of shellfishes. Inside of the city, the historical and cultural attractions enrich the visitor's knowledge. Out of her, the tourist became enchanted with ecological walks for earth, sea and rivers knowing rarities as capuchin monkey-lion-give-face-gold, a species in extinction and preservation symbol in the Atlantic forest.
Been godfather to doubly by São Jorge of the Ilhéus, his saint patron and they are Jorge Amado, the "saint" writer that turned her known in the four songs of the world, the city of Ilhéus remounts to the time of the Hereditary Captaincies. His first jump for the wealth happened starting from the cultivation of the imported cocoa of the Amazonian. The acme of the culture of the cocoa made to appear in the city countless histories on the colonels of the cocoa and their fights for the power, for the conquest of lands, of women and of money. Many of these histories still today are reminded at the Bar Vezúvio - old stronghold of colonels and scenery of the romance Gabriela, Carnation and Cinnamon - today transformed in tourist attraction of obligatory visit.
