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LARGOS, CORETOS E PRAÇAS DE BELÉM - Monumenta

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Praça Dom Frei Caetano Brandão. O local do primeiro pelourinho.<br />

Dom Frei Caetano Brandão Square. The site for the first pelourinho.<br />

O pelourinho, ao contrário<br />

do tronco – utensílio de<br />

exercício do poder privado –<br />

constituía símbolo do direito<br />

público. Na Europa, eram<br />

sempre erguidos onde havia<br />

feiras, para punir os delitos<br />

comerciais. Na colonização<br />

do Brasil, a tradição se<br />

manteve, e o instrumento de<br />

aplicação das sentenças e dos<br />

açoites públicos acompanharia<br />

Unlike the tronco (trunk) –<br />

a utensil for the exercise of<br />

private power –, the<br />

pelourinho was a symbol of<br />

public law. In Europe, they<br />

were always raised at<br />

marketplaces and fairs, to<br />

punish commercial offences.<br />

In colonial Brazil, the tradition<br />

was kept, and the instrument<br />

for the infliction of<br />

punishments and public<br />

Largos, Coretos e Praças de Belém<br />

61<br />

The Largos, Bandstands and Town Squares of Belém

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