Escadas do Carmo

Leading away from the Pelourinho, the steep Ladeira do Carmo provides access to the Escadas do Carmo, a wide set of steps that were the setting of O Pagador de Promessas (1962). This was the first Brazilian film to win a Cannes film-festival award. They lead to the eternally 'closed for renovation' Igreja do Santíssimo Sacramento do Passo (1737).