Senhora do Cabo: santuário, culto e turismo entre a tradição e a transformação

• Autor(a) principal: Roque, Maria Isabel
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Forte, Maria João
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2018.2989

The Círio of Our Lady of the Cabo, also known as Círio dos Saloios, has beena pilgrimage since the XV century,far from the sanctuary at cap Espichel to the far away rural communities of the neighbouring diocese of Lisbon. It is intended to analysehow this religious practice, associated with profane activities, has been evolving through timeand pilgrims are experiencing it, identifying their motivations, between devotion and leisure. An attempt is made to understand the effects of tourism in the place perception, considering the projected reconversion of the old pilgrims’ inns into ahotel unit. The qualitative descriptive research is based on a review of the literature, including historical resources, complemented with unstructured interviews and participant observations. Recognizing the religious cult’s revival, which had been recovering abandoned traditions, while others are lost or modified, it is concluded that the transformation of the cult can be understood as a factor that contributes to itscontinuity.