Espaço urbano e turismo religioso: avaliação da política de reordenamento do centro da cidade de Juazeiro do Norte – CE

Abstract

The conflicts of existent interests between Church and public power served again as propellers of the mechanism of evaluation of the politics urban reagruping for Juazeiro do Norte - CE, when the vision of the tourism was captured impelled by the faith and valuing the social, protected for the Church as repudiation to the planning of the tourism with bases economics, idealized by the City hall. The work here exposed he/she treats of the relationship among the public actions proposed in comparison with the visitors' reality interacting with the space urban place during the Pilgrimage of the Candeias, field of observation of the research. For such, it was accomplished a bibliographical and documental research initially with relationship to the state and municipal public politics with focus in the structuring of the downtown of Juazeiro do Norte, detaching the place-key (objective of the pilgrimages). soon after, it was looked for to know the involved social agents' reality, through the collection of documents and qualitative and quantitative data to have an idea of the adaptation of those researched politics. It is had as objective of the research to observe the public politics of tourism elaborated for Juazeiro do Norte they match with the reality of the space urban used for pilgrims and tourists, establishing a contrast among what was lived with what it is projected by the public power for the city, making possible like this an approach of the problem Pilgrimage /cities, qualifying the challenges composed in the public politics analyzed in this work (PAT/PDDU), allowing to evaluate the positioning of the Church and of the City hall in the urban reagruping and in the development of the religious tourism in Juazeiro do Norte. As result, identified the important function of the Church in the copartnership of the public administration in Juazeiro do Norte, being the urban organization of Juazeiro do Norte of responsibility and interest of both institutions (politics and religious person), for right for adverse motivations, but with the same objective: to provide development sociospace that benefits local population and visitors.