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LARGOS, CORETOS E PRAÇAS DE BELÉM - Monumenta

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<strong>LARGOS</strong> <strong>DE</strong> FESTAS, SUPLÍCIOS E EXECUÇÕES<br />

Largos for Festivals, Floggings and Executions<br />

Desde a fundação da Feliz<br />

Lusitânia, no início de 1616, a<br />

necessidade de expandir a<br />

colônia foi diretamente ligada<br />

a seu aumento populacional.<br />

Os portugueses livres e os<br />

degredados, os outros europeus<br />

em geral, os mamelucos<br />

derivados da miscigenação<br />

entre os conquistadores e as<br />

nativas, os naturais agregados e<br />

os escravos africanos foram<br />

responsáveis pelo caldeamento<br />

de raças que ampliou a<br />

ocupação da nova terra.<br />

Com o crescimento<br />

gradual, os largos abertos na<br />

densa Floresta Amazônica<br />

eram os centros de reunião da<br />

vida urbana, os locais onde se<br />

realizavam as cerimônias<br />

cívicas e toda sorte de<br />

festividades, desde religiosas e<br />

recreativas às punitivas,<br />

servindo ainda de mercados e<br />

feiras. Neles se localizavam os<br />

edifícios principais que mais<br />

enobreciam a cidade: as<br />

igrejas da fé, as casas dos<br />

governadores, da Câmara e da<br />

Cadeia, como símbolos do<br />

poder e da ordem.<br />

Ever since the founding of<br />

Happy Lusitania, in early<br />

1616, the need to expand the<br />

colony was directly linked to<br />

its population growth.<br />

The Portuguese, both the<br />

free men and the convicts;<br />

other Europeans in general;<br />

the mamelucos, descending<br />

from the miscegenation of<br />

white conquerors and native<br />

women; the natives who had<br />

been integrated into colonial<br />

society; and the African slaves<br />

accounted for the melting-pot<br />

of races that expanded the<br />

occupation of the new land.<br />

As the city gradually grew,<br />

the largos opened in the dense<br />

Amazonian Forest became<br />

centers of urban life, the places<br />

where civic ceremonies and<br />

public punishments took place,<br />

and all sort of festivities, both<br />

religious and profane, were<br />

held, serving also as sites for<br />

markets and fairs. The main and<br />

noblest buildings were located<br />

in the largos: the churches, the<br />

houses of governors, the City<br />

Chamber and the Jailhouse, as<br />

symbols of power and order.<br />

Largos, Coretos e Praças de Belém<br />

53<br />

The Largos, Bandstands and Town Squares of Belém

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