At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the districts of Saúde, Gamboa and Santo Cristo, from Praça Onze to Estácio were well-known as Little Africa. Largo de São Francisco da Prainha in the bottom of Conceição Hill in Saúde, was a meeting point for the black people, ex-slaves from the countryside of Rio and from Bahia, where they worshipped their gods by singing and dancing to the sounds of claps and tamborins, manifesting their culture which they never allowed to disappear. The way up to Conceição Hill, a path which steps were sculpted on the stone called, Pedra do Sal. Although unknown by many cariocas, but today acknowledged as a historical monument, the place is visited every day by many people from other parts of Brazil and from abroad because of the history of the place and the circles of samba that take place there. Keeping things the way they have been done for over a hundred years, the samba is in that place, an invitation to those who seek to drink it from the very fountain of it. And for that, you have just to find the Pedra path.