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Urban Heritage in Ribeira Grande de Santiago – Cape Verde: Constraints, Opportunities, and Challenges for Urban Governance

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The study of the urban heritage of Ribeira Grande de Santiago reveals a city structured in a functional or organic way since its beginnings in the second half of the fifteenth century. This allowed the city to adapt to the characteristics of the nature of the place and, fundamentally, to correspond to the necessities of the economic, religious, and military life. In Ribeira Grande de Santiago, it is still possible to observe a typological overlap in the urban organization that results from its origins dating back to 1462 and referring to the moment of transition from a medieval urbanism to a modern urbanism. Thus, in its structure, older urban areas can be distinguished from the more recent ones, where an urban heritage and an expressive architectural heritage of forms of life consolidated over time. A particularity of the historical heritage built in this city is the evident mark of a very consistent style in the past, translated into a constructive aesthetic where the application of formal rules denotes sobriety, constructive regularity, and geometric volumes, all of them characteristics common in most buildings.

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    Among the defenders of the valorization of heritage, it should be highlighted the role of Victor Hugo, in France, in 1832, when his writings called for an unrelenting war against the destroyers of historical and cultural goods that was expanding throughout the world. His warnings and other positions on the matter from then on, contributed to invert the hierarchy of values attributed to historical monuments and to privilege the values of sensibility, especially aesthetic ones.

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    SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online. S. Paulo, FAPESP – BIREME. In: https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?lng=en

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    We refer to the powers in these terms because the plural here alludes, in our point of view, on the one hand, to the local authority, on the other, to the conception of the peripheral royal power. But it should also be considered that, regarding local powers, the authority exercised by the grantee must be distinguished from that exercised by municipal representatives.

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    The commerce, together with other activities such as pastoralism and agriculture, important sources of products for supplying ships, also valued the economy of Ribeira Grande and fostered a more stable human occupation, spread over several places on the islands of Santiago and Fogo.

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    The Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário, whose initial landmark or founding element is the chapel of the same name, was expanded from the chapel at the time of the greatest investment in urban space, that is, in the second half of the sixteenth century.

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    De modo assumido, o estilo romântico do século XIX, revivalista do passado, particularmente dos tempos medievais, incorporou o arco quebrado nas suas caraterísticas.

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    Picota is the oldest and most popular designation of the pillory. It consisted in exposing criminals trapped in the ‘bar’ erected in a public place in the town or city.

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    Interestingly, the Chapel of Nossa Senhora do Rosário had performed the same functions as a cathedral, years before, after the creation of the Bishopric of Cape Verde and Guinea with headquarters in Ribeira Grande in 1553.

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Gomes, L.C. (2022). Urban Heritage in Ribeira Grande de Santiago – Cape Verde: Constraints, Opportunities, and Challenges for Urban Governance. In: Nunes Silva, C. (eds) Local Governance in Cape Verde . Local and Urban Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05847-9_8

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