Por que VITÓRIA DA CONQUISTA BA é a MELHOR CIDADE DO Brasil?

Vitória da Conquista, in Bahia, is definitely the best city in Brazil, and I will prove it to you. Want to see? For starters, it's not a hot city like the rest of the northeast, also because it has a rather curious and redundant name, and also because they make cookies, which no other place in the world makes the same.

Not to mention some curious and macabre stories that have already happened in these parts. I assure you, this place is worth visiting. If you were curious, then come with me and I'll explain on the way.

Hi people, Elzinga here. Well, Vitória da Conquista, despite being in Bahia, is not a city of beaches, as many think that the northeast is all about. In fact, Vitória da Conquista is in a high place, so the temperatures are much more "mountain climate" than "hell's heat".

That's in the winter, right? In the summer it's that normal craziness. The city, in this case, only loses to the region of Chapada Diamantina in terms of cold, so it is possible to say that it is a north pole of Bahia.

Or something like that. In 2020 they had the lowest temperature in recent times: 9ºC. Look, I've seen people from the Northeast hitting their chin at 20ºC, so I imagine that the day that reached 9ºC was an apocalypse in the city.

And for the simple fact that the city is not so hot, the economy ends up changing a lot too, in addition to the fact that a lot of people look for this place to live. It is a great option for those who want to leave the South and go to the northeast and not be so hot. #FicaDicaDoElzinga.

And do you know why the city is awesome? Because it has the 5th largest economy in Bahia and stands out mainly in the service sector and for the production of flour cookies. They call it "avoador" and there are lots of them at Chalé dos Biscoitos.

Vitória da Conquista is still in the 51st position among the best cities to live in Brazil, with more than 100 thousand inhabitants. In the northeast it is the second, only behind Petrolina. And if you, my dear, just like me, think the name Vitória da Conquista is redundant, because after all, every victory is an achievement and vice versa, look at the reason for the name of this place.

In the beginning they just called it Conquista, because that was the name that the Portuguese and the Spaniards gave to the lands after conquering them from the indigenous peoples. And everything was going well, until in 1943, people went to Google that didn't exist and discovered that Conquista was the name of a city in Minas Gerais. Then they added Vitória, but there was already another one, so it was Vitória da Conquista in honor of the fights won in the past.

Little did they know that today there is a bunch of town with the same name out there. And Vitória da Conquista… I'll just call it Conquista from now on ok? Rest assured that this video is not about Minas Gerais.

It will be until the end about the Conquista of Bahia. Well, I was saying, Conquista… has a very curious and different curiosity to be told. Once, a town priest named Bernardino Correia de Mello had a relationship with a married woman.

What a gossip! The woman was called Maria Clemência and was the wife of a well-known captain at the time. And guess what, the man discovered everything!

Think of a town that got small and everyone just talked about it. The priest left the town, the woman was left alone after being accused of adultery and went crazy around. Then the ex-couple's children put sense into their father's mind, who forgave her, received her back, donated a few heads of cattle to the woman and even registered a document of forgiveness with the City Council.

This is all serious, it happened in 1850 and has records to this day. At that time even betrayals were documented. Today there's the internet for stalker guys to discover things.

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If you don't like it, come back and complain. And since I've covered some basic gossip, I need to share some more with you about Conquista. If one day you go there, remember that it's in the neighborhood of Candeias that everything happens.

From what I understand it's like an uptown neighborhood in the city. At the other end is Pedrinhas, which I think is a meme neighborhood in Conquista. "Buchinho" St.

is where people go for fill up their bellies, where everyone gathers to drink, chat, find Tinder matches and such. At some point, everyone will also remind you that the filmmaker Glauber Rocha and the musician Elomar Figueira Melo are from there, and there will always be someone to emphasize that if you visit Conquista once, you will never want to leave. The theory may even make some sense, since there are more than 340,000 inhabitants that exist in these lands.

And here are some stories about this piece of Brazil. Conquista, in the beginning was a land inhabited by indigenous peoples, just like any other corner of this country. At the time, they knew the region as "Sertão da Ressaca" and these people were divided into 3: the Ymborés, the Pataxós and the Mongoiós.

But they didn't like each other very much, so they fought a lot to conquer this territory, which in this case was not for the property, but for the food that existed there. So time passed, and I suffered in silence, until one fine day, not for the indigenous people, the Portuguese arrived to colonize these parts. They came looking mainly for gold and other precious metals.

On that occasion, along with the Portuguese, came a boy named João Gonçalves da Costa, who was the demon that decimated indigenous villages. And he decimated so much that he founded the Arraial da Conquista there and enslaved the remaining indigenous people. The curious thing is that João, according to some historians who have done a lot of research, was a former slave.

Okay, but pay attention now that the story gets pretty hairy. During this conquest of João and his troupe, the Mongoiós ended up helping the settlers in the fight against the Pataxós and the Ymborés in exchange for a guarantee for their people. But, after dominating the 2 tribes, the Mongoiós were enslaved and forced to work on opening roads and cutting down forests.

They were more than pissed off… and João's soldiers knew it. Then began the battle between João's crew and the Mongoiós that lasted a long time, until one day the Mongoiós were invited to celebrate a truce with the soldiers. But the soldiers got the indigenous people drunk, then surrounded them and killed almost everyone, including women and children.

And so the Mongoiós ceased to exist. YEP! For people who think that living in the past was all good, there were those atrocities too.

The soldiers were really SOABs, they even offered clothes infected with smallpox to the indigenous people. After all that I said, Arraial da Conquista began to grow, the first herds arrived, they changed the name to Vila Imperial da Vitória and, only in 1891, they started to be called simply Conquista. Then came a group of people from all over Brazil, they opened coffee plantations and the city took off in the production of the grain in the next years until 1980, when the coffee crisis happened and Conquista had to adapt economically to the services.

Well, here's proof that everything is better with a story behind it, isn't it? Living in Conquista means remembering their crazy past every day. But now I want to introduce you to some cool things to do in the city for you to convince yourself that Vitória da Conquista is the best city in Brazil.

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Getting down to business… one of the most incredible things there, is the Christ of Mário Cravo, the "Crucified Christ", right up there in the Serra do Periperi, with the features of a country man, suffering and hungry. Look, apart from the fact that he's suffering there, the view from this place is something unique. One of the best spots in the whole city.

Another place is the Poço Escuro Forest Reserve with more than 17 thousand square meters of Atlantic Forest and Cipó Forest. For you and your friend who love to venture out in the middle of the woods and fill up with your socks with those sticky things, this place is perfect, because it has a lot of trails, plants and animals. Also the Serra do Periperi Municipal Park; the Casa Henriqueta Prates Regional Museum, which houses much of the history of Conquista and the entire region; the Tancredo Neves Square with very chic gardens, a lot of trees, a lake, and also the Cathedral of Nossa Senhora das Vitórias; the Monument to the Political Dead and Disappeared in Bahia, also in the same square, which honors those who were persecuted from the beginning during the military dictatorship in Brazil in 1964; the Monument to Prince Maximilian; the Burle Marx Garden, built in honor of the 100th anniversary of his visit to Brazil and the 44th anniversary of Vitória da Conquista; By the way, I'm aware that you're looking at my shirt.

It's from my store, Tu Shirts. Go to the description that has a link for you to click on and buy yours. Coming back… the Governor Régis Pacheco Memorial House; the City Hall building itself; the Monument to the Bible; the Monument to the Ten Commandments; the Monument to Getúlio Vargas; the Jaci Flores Monument; the Indian Monument; the Monument to Immigrants; the Monument to the Bandeirantes; the Cajaíba Museum with more than 180 sculptures in cement and iron made by the late artist Aurino Cajaíba; the Monument to Três Pracinhas, created by Cajaíba himself, but in another part of the city, just so you don't think I've already finished with the monuments that this city has; the House of Dona Zazá; the Solar dos Fonsecas; and of course, the famous São João events that stop the whole city, as well as the Bahia Winter Festival to show you that not only Gramado lives from the culture of cold #SUCKITGRAMADO.

Well folks, that was it for today. If you liked the video, pass it on. If they didn't like it, I don't even know why you got here.

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