Os percursos, os fatos e os lugares: contribuição para memória urbana da cidade do Salvador

Abstract

This is the study of the Memory of the City of Salvador elaborated from the diachronic analysis of the popular civic commemoration, Dois de Julho, from 1824 until the middle of the twentieth century. The hypothesis is developed that its construction provided a representation of the nineteenth century Salvador and incorporated, throughout its history, symbolic expressions of the transformations of certain spaces of the city and vice versa. The symbolic production of space resulted from the implantation of sculptural and architectural monuments, the attribution of toponyms and the particularization of localities. One can also inquire into the tradition-modernity relationship in Salvador's urban memory by comparatively observing the urban configurations of the city in the space-time demarcated in the evolution of the procession. From which maps (models) with related urban variation and transformations were elaborated.