Ferrovia e turismo cultural: alternativa para o futuro da Vila de Paranapiacaba (SP)

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to show that the association between heritage preservation, through its interpretation, and railway tourism is a good method devoted to cultural tourism, with a sustainable base. For this reason, the history of Paulista railway was studied, showing some relerences that made highways to have priority in detriment to railways. Alter a long period on abandon, the Vila of Paranapiacaba, São Paulo, a place that express the start or beginning of the railway culture at the second half of XIX century, is mentioned as an interesting point of cultural tourism, an activity that can be maximized if associated to a tourist railway.