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QUESTION Antonio Sergio Ferraciolli, Cacoal, RO
Nobody knows the exact place.
“It is difficult to define where Dom Pedro would have gone when he came from Santos, on September 7, 1822”, says historian Cecília Helena de Salles Oliveira, professor at USP and author of the book The Brado do Ipiranga. “From the 1910s onwards, this area of São Paulo underwent many changes, such as the channeling of the Ipiranga creek.”
One of the guesses is that it happened where Independence Park is today. The Ipiranga Museum, also there, houses another clue: the painting Independence or death, by Pedro Americo. Produced between 1886 and 1888, it includes, in one corner of the image, a residence similar to the Casa do Grito, which is still preserved in the Park. As much as several details of the canvas are idealized, the painter did a good field research and would not have had to create the property from nothing.
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