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Publication Date
3-2-2009
Description
One of the many narrow streets leading to the Pelourinho where most of the sobrados desperately need restoration. In these streets where members of the affluent colonial society once lived, one descends today into a Fellinesque world where everyone and everything mingles. The once-elegant sobrados now house students, taxi drivers, prostitutes, thieves, priests, vendors, beggars, small shops and bars, etc. One finds in the vicinity of the Pelourinho a mixture of beauty, and suffering and horror which reflects the agony of Salvador's past and the difficult reality of the present.Uma das muitas ruas estreitas que conduzem ao Pelourinho onde muitos dos sobrados urgentemente precisam de restauração. Nestas ruas onde uma vez moraram membros influentes da sociedade colonial, hoje moram as pessoas descendentes de um mundo ao estilo de Fellini, onde todos e tudo se misturam. Os outrora elegantes sobrados, são hoje casas de estudantes, motoristas de táxi, prostitutas, bandidos, padres, vendedores, mendigos, lojas e bares. Encontra-se nas vizinhanças do Pelourinho uma mistura de beleza, sofrimento e horror, que refletem a agonia do passado de Salvador e a difícil realidade do presente.
Publisher
Latin American and Iberian Institute / University of New Mexico
Rights
Brazil Slide Series Collection: This article is copyrighted by the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) of the University of New Mexico. Rights permission is for standard academic, non-commercial, use of these materials. Proper citation of this material should include title, author, publisher, date, and URL. Copyright Latin American and Iberian Institute University of New Mexico 1988
Keywords
Brazil: Salvador, Bahia
