A STUDY ON THE MOST IMPORTANT SQUARES OF JABOTICABAL AND TAQUARITINGA (SP)

Abstract

Squares and gardens have always impressed the human imagination. They improve life quality and beautify the landscape in towns and cities. These open areas were crucial in the past and have their own history and memory which are not enough recalled nowadays. This work was a study of the main squares of two towns – Jaboticabal and Taquaritinga – in São Paulo State-Brazil, with the objective to verify what kinds of relations that had occurred between their inhabitants and these squares across the time. The results showed that, depending on the period, people used their squares and gardens in a different manner. It was found very little similarity in the way of interaction between these two town inhabitants with their respective squares.