It is about to reach 398, next Thursday (27 March), Ver-o-speso “It is the spirit of Bethlehem, because of everything that is going on,” the historian Mario Niko is known. For some, a postcard. For others, the temple of work and support. Her unification occurred in a cultural, economic, political and urban process.
🕰 The timeline Ver-o-speso
🌿 Before colonialism
The region that was today in Ver-O-PESO was already a commercial warehouse for the original Tupinambás. They used space to exchange products and blood circulation.
📜 seventeenth century – colonization and installation of a house
The Portuguese crown installs a weight of weight to impose taxes on goods. The colonists are suitable for the already used by the indigenous population.
“The Portuguese will be copied, for example, the idea; the use and the right space,” explains NECO.
🏖 The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – urban transformations
It was known for the current 15 De November Street as the Braya Street. The basis of the region allowed to build markets and improve the city’s supplies.
Advance and prize at the ACAI exhibition at Dawn (Igor Mota / O Liberal)
🐄 End of the nineteenth century – Create a meat market
Municipal market (today the meat market Francisco Bologna), designed by the architect of the same name. The slaughterhouse is transferred to Coro Felho in the Telegraph, which improves the distribution of meat. However, the product was still expensive, and the rejected players were sold on the parties.
1901 – The opening of the iron market
For the sale of fish, the iron structure has been imported. The construction was only possible after the land of Perry was flooded. There was resistance from fish to change, and it was necessary to persuade them politically.
The historian says: “Therefore, his position is a kind of” thinking “, in reference to the lack of range between the horoscopes that are still visible,” the historian says.
A worker holds fish that reaches Pedra Do Pexy (Igor Mota / O Liberal)
🚌 In the early twentieth century – the urban and popular center
Ver-O-Peso strengthens itself as a central point of the city. Trams and buses from the site, which enhances its economic and social importance.
🏪 1911 – Create Sao Price Market
It was created to cancel the movement of the intensive movement of Ver-O-PESO. However, the main complex continues to grow.
🧺 Until 1985 – informal kiosks and support
Products were sold on the ground and in temporary stalls to the first major renewal, which brought monotheism. Trade and movement continued to expand.
Yes and today – Resistance and Cultural Identity
Among the three sidewalks of Belém, only the Ver-O-PESO survived berth. The complex remains as a symbol of Pará identity: from the kitchen to handicrafts, from work to faith.
🌎 In 2025-by-O-PESO before the world (COP 30)
Historian Márcio Neeco notes that Ver-O-PESO can be one of the main “educational materials” to understand the social and cultural life of Amazon before the world during COP 30.
Márcio neco, historian (personal archive)
“It is part of the cultural identity of the Barra people, whether for cooking, handicrafts, football, politics, or religion. There is confrontation, confrontations, creativity and production.”
