São Paulo hotels: the reasons for urban housing in the city of São Paulo and the news in almanacs and memorials of the nineteenth century

Abstract

This article, besides valorize the existing production related to the history of hospitality in the city of São Paulo, discusses the dissemination of lodging facilities in Sao Paulo by the use of Almanacs and Memorials published during the nineteenth century. Analyzes the information disclosed by these vehicles of information and also provides different methodological guidelines for the interpretation of this existing documentation, the use of techniques historiographical research and analysis. It thereby aims to demonstrate that the history of hospitality in the city of São Paulo is part of the whole analytical linked to a possible readings everyday shaped by the cultural imagination of the period. Therefore seeking to open a line of interpretive work necessary to realize the hotel in Sao Paulo by the interpretation of its meanings as institutions formed in the logic of a memory and a historical identity.