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Walk on a rainy day through Parque farroupilha, better known as Parque da Redenção.
This video is dedicated to Joel Delgado, from New Jersey, USA.
Parque Farroupilha, better known as Parque da Redenção or simply Redenção, is the most traditional and popular park in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
It is a place visited by many people from Porto Alegre during their hours of rest, whether for playing sports, sunbathing or socializing with chimarrão with family and friends.
The place where the park is now used to be called Várzea do Portão, a large wetland near the old gate of Vila de Porto Alegre. On February 23, 1807, the City Council asked the then Governor of the Captaincy of São Pedro do Rio Grande do Sul, Admiral Paulo José da Silva Gama, Baron of Bagé, to make the donation of Várzea to be used as a public place, as well as a concentration area for cattle herds brought for local supply.
In 1826, an attempt to subdivide was prevented by the emperor Dom Pedro I, supported by the donation clause that required the emperor's express authorization for any alienation.
During the Farroupilha Revolution, the area was outside the city's fortifications, and after the conflict an inspection by the Chamber found several irregularities, such as fences advancing its territory and a farm built in its center, works that were ordered to be immediately demolished. In 1870 Várzea received its first official name, changing its name to Campo do Bonfim, in view of the construction of the Bonfim Chapel on its northern limit. There were still subsequent threats to the integrity of the area, generally frustrated, but in 1872 the President of the Province authorized the construction of a military barracks on its southeastern limit, the origin of the current Military College of Porto Alegre. Still subject to occasional flooding, the site was also used as a drying area for leathers, a collection point for carts and for depositing urban waste until the middle of 1890.
In 1884 the street was renamed Campos da Redenção, commemorating the early abolition of slavery in the city. At that time the park was already surrounded by buildings on all sides, and in 1889 the quartermaster José Montaury had the idea of opening alleys inside for better gardening, at the same time that he intended to sell surplus areas to finance the renovations, the which only came to fruition later. However, a large portion of the park was landscaped and beautified on the occasion of the great State Exhibition of 1901, which gave rise to the construction of a bullfighting circus, a horse racing track and the velodrome of the União Velocipédica, structures that did not survive for long . Another fraction had already been ceded in 1900 for the construction of the Engineering School, and in 1911 several plots of land on the south side were put up for auction. A little later a large area was lost for the construction of the buildings of other schools of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and of the old Júlio de Castilhos College, concentrated on the northwest side.
In 1914 João Moreira Maciel, architect of Intendência, developed a Plan for Improvements and Beautification of the Capital, foreseeing a division in nine blocks for the park. In 1927 the effective landscaping of Campos da Redenção began, with the implantation of Jardim Paulo Gama to the north and the prohibition of the stopping of carts and herds in 1928. In the preparations for the Exposition of the Centennial of Farroupilha in 1935, the entire southern part was drained, leveled and urbanized, following a project by the French urbanist Alfred Agache. This year its name was changed to Parque Farroupilha, which remains today.
In 1939, the 11:53 water mirror was built on the central axis and the park's gardening continued. Jardim Alpino, European Garden and Oriental Garden 06:35 were established in 1941 by Arnaldo Gladosch. After the great flood of 1941, a nook was created that received the old French cast iron fountain 29:06, which was installed in Praça Pereira Parobé, and which had previously been in Praça XV de Novembro. In 1953, the Monument to Expeditionary 33:48 was inaugurated, by sculptor Antônio Caringi, and in 1964, the new Araújo Viana Auditorium, designed by Moacir Moojen Marques and Carlos Maximiliano Fayet. Bandstand 18:01
Since then the complex has not stopped being landscaped and urbanized, but the gardens have lost other fragments to make way for gas stations and an amusement park, a minizoo and a sports complex. On Sundays, the traditional Brique da Redenção is held in the park, with numerous stalls selling handicrafts, food and antiques. Parque Farroupilha was listed on January 3, 1997 by the municipality of Porto Alegre. The venue is commonly a stage for demonstrations