Jacarecanga: patrimônio e memória da cidade de Fortaleza

Abstract

This study brings reflections on cultural heritage, memory and city, in order to show the importance that the heritage has to protect the memory and the history of places and people’s life and, therefore, the history and memory of the city’s area. It brings these thoughts on the possibility of making such patrimony as sources of information for an education that goes beyond the formal spaces of schools and universities, emphasizing that the learning takes place, also, through informal education and that the cited space becomes, in fact, a place of excellence learning. The research took into consideration for its study, the Neighborhood of Jacarecanga, in the city of Fortaleza, which was not only a personal choice, but also the fact that the part of the city is dating from the first half of the twentieth century, housing some of the most significant institutions of Fortaleza’s history, as well as for all the people who lived there, who have given, for a long time, a configuration so that the place would have been considered the fashionable neighborhood of the City, not only for the beautiful houses, but also for the social level of its residents on political, economic and educational aspects. The study presents as a search core the Gustavo Barroso’s Square, better known as the Liceu’s Square, considering that this is the heart of the neighborhood and where the people’s life goes by. For collecting data, the amount of people studied was seventy, and out of this set, were chosen 24 representative speeches of the total researched and through these ones it’s possible to have a visibility of what Jacarecanga contains in terms of memory and history of Fortaleza city, here presented as property assets.