(Re)Construindo a Belle Époque Manauara: análise do projeto de revitalização do entorno do Teatro Amazonas e do Largo de São Sebastião

Abstract

This work proposes to analyze the Manaus Belle Époque, Project created by Secretary of Culture of the State of Amazonas in your phase of restoration of the Amazon Theatre and São Sebastião’s bordes, one of the principal’s post cards. Initially the reader will be showed to quantity of the properties tumbled of the city, in yours three instances of power, analyzing them the referring legislation and their several positions, assumed by the society, in the respect to your preservation. Up next, treats of a retrospective of the history evolution processed, from a cutting storm – of the genesis, from the foundation of the São José da Barra do Rio Negro’s fort, until the considered period in crisis, when the decline of the commercialization of the Amazonian rubber, to be observed as gave the resignation of the patrimony built localities. In the end, after it have put into context the panorama of the historical patrimony of Manaus, will threat of the describe project, attributing him the big merit of return the right to the city, doing with that the population returned to the old center, being able to make use of a public place with security and quality of infrastructure and of service. However the old duality versus new, inherent to the questions of urban qualification, manifest itself in this example, awaking reflexive attitudes as regards the methodologies adopted, since the historical value and the originality of the constructions, they are so much exceled in this experience, become, for times debatable, compromising the identity of the collective memory.