Arrival: Aracajú
The day ends in the late afternoon in Aracajú, via the Praça Olímpio Campos in the historic centre — the city's main civic and religious square, anchored by the Catedral Metropolitana de Nossa Senhora da Conceição. The cathedral was built from 1862 and elevated to its present status in 1910, when Pope Pius X created the Diocese of Aracaju; its eclectic facade combines neoclassical and neogothic elements, and the interior dome carries 19th-century paintings by Orestes Gatti and Rodolfo Tavares. The square itself is named for Monsenhor Olímpio Campos, governor of Sergipe from 1899 to 1902, whose statue has stood here since 1916 and whose body is buried in the cathedral — a complicated political history condensed into a small plaza ringed by craft stalls and coconut-water sellers.