Freedom: take a look at the attractions in the tourist neighborhood of San Paolo

The neighborhood is the address of the largest Japanese community outside Asia […]

Until recently, freedom, in the center of San Paolo, was only an oriental neighborhood with traditional lanterns, Torii and stem on the phot.

But from there it came to the excitement of the commercial establishments, the cultural program was renewed and the neighborhood established itself as one of the main tourist attractions of the state capital, with gastronomic options and Japanese, Korean and Chinese trade.

Address of the largest Japanese community outside Asia, the neighborhood is today a piece of Japan in the largest city in Brazil, where about 400,000 Japanese and descendants live, according to the city of San Paolo.

However, despite its current name, the neighborhood was not always a place of freedom.

Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, the region was known as the Dolvora district, due to such a house, located off from Polvora.

One of the (feared) addresses of the time was wide from Forca, in which this tool was for the execution of the prisoners to the death penalty, whose most famous character to pass was the soldier Chaguinhas, whose history is one of the explanations for the origin of the current name of the neighborhood.

In 1821, Cabo Francisco José Das Chagas, of the first battalion of Santos, was convicted of the gallows for claiming a wage increase. However, the strings that supported him break several times and the public would have started singing “freedom, freedom”.

Not far from there, the neighborhood also hosted the afflicted cemetery until 1858, the first public cemetery in San Paolo, where socially marginalized people were buried, such as slaves, prisoners and contagious patients. In 2018, an archaeological work on this 400 square meter ground, in the streets of the afflicted and Galvão Bueno, revealed nine human bones accompanied by glass ornaments.

What to do with free

Viaduct of the city of Osaka

The presentations of artists and curtains with profession are some of the attractions of one of the most popular addresses in the neighborhood, in Galvão Bueno Street. It is in this same way that the Eastern gardenArea with a lake with typical Carpe and Japanese landscapes, open every day from 10 to 16.

Founded in 1955, this Buddhist space is located in Rua São Joaquim, 285 and is visited with guided meditations, as well as ceremonies open to the public.

Historical Museum of Japanese immigration

Documents, photos and clothing make the place the largest collection relating to the history of Japanese immigration to Brazil, with about 97 thousand articles. The museum operates at 381 São Joaquim Street (between the 7th and 9th floor) and is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 to 17. Tickets: R $ 20 (free, Wednesday).

Freedom proud

On weekends, from 9:00 to 18:00, there is one of the main attractions of the neighborhood, when the crafts and food stalls such as Yakisoba, Guioza, Tempurá and skewers are established. The square also hosts a statue in honor of Deolinda Mother (Madrina Eunice), considered the founder of Lavapés, one of the first Samba schools of San Paolo.

Santa Cruz Chapel Souls of Hangheed

Built in 1887, in Liberdade Square, the place housed a cross in honor of the soldier Chaguinhas.

Lohan temple

Founded in 1995, this educational institution (R. Conselheiro Fattado, 445) offers thematic courses on Buddhism, Kung Fu, traditional medicine and art, philosophy and Chinese literature. The place can be visited for R $ 20 (entrance to the garden); R $ 40 (temple entry); R $ 100 (monitored visit or 30 -minute cultural experience, as an introduction to chess, calligraphy, painting, glaze, taichichuan, music etc.).

Palacet Cent of Sarzedas

Hunted as a municipal inheritance, this construction of the end of the 19th century houses the Museum of the Court of Justice of San Paolo, in Conde de Sarzedas Street, at the headquarters.

** With information from the Nikkey Palace Hotel, the city of San Paolo, IPha and Agência Brasil

Source: Terra

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