Do Largo do Rossio ao Jardim: a gênese da praça Gomes Freire em Mariana-MG

Schirley Fátima Nogueira Da Silva Cavalcante Alves Alves,Patrícia Duarte De Oliveira Paiva,Cecília Souza Gontijo Garcia

doi:10.14295/oh.v22i3.955

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Abstract

Considered as the first village from Minas Gerais state, Mariana has important cultural and historical collections from the Brazilian colonial period. Currently the city has three squares in the historic center, and they are recognized for the historical heritage. Gomes Freire’s Square, set in the historic center of Mariana, has two interesting characteristics: its location behind the Main Church and the intensity use by many social groups in this city, furthermore the large presence of tourists. In the prospect of meeting its historical evolution, and identify the landscape representation in the collective unconscious of Mariana’s inhabitants, it was analyzed the evolution of the village and formation of the Gomes Freire’s Square. To achieve this goal it was necessary to deepen the knowledge of the social appropriation of this space over time, enabling the identification of the same, as well as its evolution as a public place. The study focused its interest in the village evolution, in the uses and social representation of the covered space. For this, the methodology applied was an interface between the inventive analysis, subjective method analysis, and recommendations for preservation of historic gardens. Gomes Freire’s Square, in its formation process presented as remarkable feature in its historical dimension, the fact that emerged and remained as a space of popular demonstrations.

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The studies of the urban development of Mariana-MG city are focused on the perspective of knowing the Gomes Freire’s Square historical evolution of to identify the landscape representation on the collective unconscious of their inhabitants. This triggered the need to deepen the knowledge of the social appropriation of the same from the beginning of Mariana’s story, which enabled the identification of the evolution from this public space
The square is an ancient space that is intertwined with the own origin of the western concept of urban, but it is not possible to say the same of the gardens, which are effectively materialized creations at the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe, the public square was the convergence point of all that was not official
In the squares there were no labels or rules of politeness in them formed a familiar language, clearly different from that used by the dominant classes, the aristocracy, clergy, nobility (SEGAWA, 1996)

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The studies of the urban development of Mariana-MG city are focused on the perspective of knowing the Gomes Freire’s Square historical evolution of to identify the landscape representation on the collective unconscious of their inhabitants. This triggered the need to deepen the knowledge of the social appropriation of the same from the beginning of Mariana’s story, which enabled the identification of the evolution from this public space. Gomes Freire’s Square began its history as the Largo do Rossio, open space on the suburb of villages or cities, designed for military exercises and Cavalhadas This historical evolution study of the Gomes Freire’s Square showed its genesis as space of great vocation for the meeting and social celebration of Mariana (ALVES et al, 2010)

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