Praça Batista Campos

Batista Campos Square

In the nineteenth century, the land belonged to Mary of Manoj Figueira and Salvaterra, and is therefore known as "Square Salvaterra. With the death of the owner, the land did belong to the City of Bethlehem, starting to call themselves "Sergipe Square" in honor of the new Brazilian province.

In 1897, during the administration of mayor Antonio Lemos, the square began to honor one of the main characters of Cabanagem: Canon Batista Campos, who died in 1834. At the time the field was a broad plain with some hoses and a central garden. Three years later, when it was inaugurated on February 14, 1904, was already one of the finest squares in Bethlehem

Obeying the plan "gardens without bars", the square had fourteen entries. Later on the sidewalks of the Square received coating marajoaras Portuguese mosaic motifs. The plaza has a gazebo, watercourses and bridges are landscaped gardens with native trees.

Praça Batista Campos was listed by county in 1983. In 1986, he won new equipment and went looking for a restaurant features lost in the early twentieth century, during the first reform.

Since 1997, the Association of Friends of the photo! (AAPBC) also helps to preserve it.

In 2005, she won the "Top 100 Award Brazil," Journal of selections, as the most beautiful square in the country.

In 2008, the square has undergone a major restoration undertaking coordinated by Engetower Engineering, gaining a more modern and organized, while maintaining its main features, such as your landscaping without railings, ornamental plants, streams, bridges, benches, arbors, gazebos and fountains iron.

Today is named as one of the most beautiful environments in the capital of Pará has almost 3 million square feet of building area, is located in the quadrilateral formed by Serzedelo Correa, Mundurucus, Tamoios Father and Eutyches. Also classified as a cultural space where visitors can practice physical activities, leisure or just search for peace and quiet (PIETRY, 2010).

Every day hundreds of people visit the square and the street because it requires care and maintenance, all that does not lose its "European charm, conquered and held until today. The conservation and maintenance of the square is for the municipal government. (DIARY OF PARA, 2001, p.8)

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