Águas passadas promovem cidades com cinturões culturais: projeto e restauro do edifício da Antiga Casa de Alfândega e os casarios emblemáticos da Rua do Porto de Corumbá

Water under the bridge promote cultural hub cities: design and restoration of the House of the Old Customs and the emblematic buildings of Rua do Porto de Corumbá

Abstract

This discussion provided an opportunity to reflect on cultural and tourist speaking countries, and its repercussions in the socio-economic development in the built and natural sites nationwide. Your goal is to present "The House of Old Customs" of Corumbá – State of Mato Grosso do Sul and the emblematic buildings nearby, and his contributions both as a landmark in the socio-economic apogee of the city, and functional changes to their adaptations to new uses in the period between the late nineteenth century the first decade of this century. The methodology starts with the process of formation and transformation that city, passing by the pictures of your economic peak and ends in architectural materialization on the banks of the Paraguai River.