THE CITY OF PYRRHO: THE FORMATION OF THE PATRIMONIAL IDENTITY OF ARACAJU IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Abstract

With the purpose of transferring the administration of the capital of the Province of Sergipe D'El Rey, located in São Cristóvão, in the interior of the state, the desire arises to create a city that can house a port to facilitate economic transactions via river-sea, so Ignacio Joaquim Barboza, President of the Province, requests the project and its construction to engineer Sebastião Joze Bazilio Pyrrho, with eminently progressive characteristics, thus Aracaju was born in 1855. There are still doubtful questions about Pyrrhus' project, such as: what were the first buildings, whether it was a city designed for that moment or planned for the future, what was the importance of the orthogonal layout at that time... Vila Bela (Mato Grosso) created in the century. XVIII and Teresina (Piauí) of 1852 can help to clarify some facts about the implantation of Aracaju. This article intends to provide reflections based on an investigation based on documents of the time and bibliographic references on the subject, presenting some considerations about the Memory of the construction of Aracaju and showing how its urban configuration arrived in the 19th century. XXI as a referential factor for the formation of the heritage identity of its current urban cultural landscape

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.029-058