Landscape Transformations and Memory in Camorim

• Autor(a) principal: Rodriguez Cárceres, Luz Stella
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/18724
• topic: Memory; Heritage; Landscape; Change; Memória; Patrimônio; Paisagem; Restauração; Mudança

An important identity element for residents of the neighborhood Camorim is the chapel of “São Gonçalo de Amarante” built in 1625, icon of the rural and colonial architecture in Rio de Janeiro and protected by law as a state heritage in 1965. The church and the scenery around have been going through transformations brought by the time and the human activities and not human activities. The concern and endeavors of Catholic community in the neighborhood in restoring the chapel in the end of the 1990s and the current symbolic appropriations of the church surroundings by a quilombola group offers an important subject matter to explore the relations between memory, change, materiality and landscape. The background scenery consists in abrupt urban transformations that have been happening in the region because of Rio’s urban expansion and also in worries that arise among the neighborhood residents.