Natural and constructed landscape of the region of immigration of the south of the state of Santa Catarina

Abstract

The State of Santa Catarina possesss a patrimony that does not find similars in the whole world. One is about the houses of the immigrants who if had dislocated for here, deriving of diverse parts of the Europe, with predominance of Germans, Italians, ucranianos, Poles, among others. These immigrants had established themselves in regions practically intocadas, located in the interior of the State and fragilmente on to the Brazilian nuclei luso already installed in the coast. Thus, the calls had been developed “cultural islands”, that they form until our days, practically unchanged cultural contexts and of inestimable patrimonial value. Dialects, agrarian, estórias techniques, alimentary parties, habits, carpentry and architecture, in general, the “ways to make” are some of the alive expressions of this context, keeping elements that many times already do not exist in its native countries. These occurrences exist in perfectly delimited geographic spaces, framed for natural and cultural landscape, what it becomes the cited “Region of absolutely bonanza Immigration” in the national scene. Currently these areas, that until then kept the cultural legacy of the immigrant, come passing for transformations that place in risk this patrimony. The abandonment of the agrarian activity for the small producer, the expansion of the urban perimeters of the centers next and the lack to perspective of economic growth for the population takes the inhabitants of these regions to abandon its properties or to transform them radically, in order to adapt them it the current concepts of comfort and modernity.