Late Afternoon: Cidade Baixa
From Vitória, catch an Uber down to the Elevador Lacerda, the Art Déco pair of towers that has been stitching the Cidade Alta to the Cidade Baixa since 1873. The elevator was the first public urban elevator in the world, built by Antônio de Lacerda to connect the commercial port district below with the historic centre above, a vertical gap of 72 metres. The towers were rebuilt in their current form in 1930 — concrete, stepped pilasters, strong horizontal lines — by architects Fleming Thiesen and Adalberto Szilard, working with the Otis Company on the mechanism. The cost of a ride is fifteen centavos, unchanged since the reform. Take it up to the Praça Tomé de Sousa for the view over the Mercado Modelo, the fort of São Marcelo rising from the water of the bay, and the long Recôncavo shoreline bending west. Then an Uber back to the Barra for dinner.