A Look at the Vicentino Colonial Reception:

a proto-history of hospitality and means of lodging in Portuguese America

Abstract

This is a study of the first means of visitor lodging (common traveler) and their referential role in the physical-spatial equipment and formation, resulting from the hospitality in the hinterlands of Portuguese America. In this exploratory research paper we seek to present conceptual values of early forms of hospitality in the South American continent. Thus, a bibliographic survey about how the bandeirista residence, the trip, the visitation and the lodgings are treated in the 16^th and 17^th century. The research extends to other possibilities of proto-commercial lodging available to the visitor, directing a look at the confrontation with the formation of urban centers established in the Captaincies of São Vicente and Santo Amaro (initial area of the modern-day state of São Paulo). However, the reference of these possibilities scarcely contributes to the proposed questions. In this way, in contrast to the bibliographic database, the spatial division schemes of buildings are used to perform a specific study based on references to the History of Brazilian Architecture. Therefore, part of the bandeirante’s house is recognized as an independent lodging space. Thus, the goal is to punctuate this possibility of lodging in the early colonial period, still hardly mentioned in the Brazilian literature. Moreover, there is a panorama regarding the topic.

Keywords: Means of Lodging; hospitality; Colonial period; Bandeirantista residence.