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A Quarta Colônia de imigração italiana: uma paisagem cultural na região central do Rio Grande do Sul

2012; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA MARIA; Volume: 16; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5902/223649947333

2236-4994

Vanessa Manfio,

Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies

The landscape is a set of shapes acquired through space. Through it you can show aspects cultural, natural, historical and material. As the landscape of the region of the fourth colony of Italian immigration, located in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul and colonized by Italian immigrants, who in addition to the beautiful natural forms of relief has materialized on the Italian culture, artifacts that identify the region as: the colonial houses, monuments of Italian colonisation between others. In this sense, this article aims to discuss about the geographic element: the landscape, especially the fourth colony. Study this landscape is understanding the sentimentality of the residents lived in the region and the culture of its people.