Some cemeteries are losing the characteristic of places of sadness and mourning and become true places of memory and life. These spaces can be considered as cultural heritage museums, as they are full of values linked to material goods and the immaterial goods that represent them.
Consolação Cemetery, inaugurated in 1858 in São Paulo, has a vast green area amidst the hustle and bustle of Rua da Consolação, and in it the visitor finds tombs without major ornaments, but which house the remains of personalities such as Monteiro Lobato, Tarsila do Amaral, Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Marquesa de Santos, Luiz Gama and many others. Dividing the space are also grandiose tomb artworks made by renowned sculptors such as Victor Brecheret, Galileo Emendabilli and Bruno Giorgi, commissioned by the city's most traditional families.
This application allows the user to make self-guided visits to Consolação Cemetery, with a series of assembled itineraries and the possibility of searching by name of the buried illustrious person, activity of that person or the name of the author of the tomb art.
The planned itineraries are:
- 20 unmissables
- Tomb art - important sculptors
- Tomb art - unknown author
- Architectural Periods
- Modernists
- Politicians - Empire
- Politicians - Republic
- Industrialists, coffee growers and self-employed professionals
- Artists, intellectuals, public figures
- Urban Stories
- All important
Once a grave is selected, the app shows the location of both the grave and the user, making it easy to find the location. There is also a photo of the tomb and a text about the history of the buried person or the artist.
The application is the result of an agreement signed between PUC-SP and the Municipal Funeral Service of São Paulo.
Consolação Cemetery, inaugurated in 1858 in São Paulo, has a vast green area amidst the hustle and bustle of Rua da Consolação, and in it the visitor finds tombs without major ornaments, but which house the remains of personalities such as Monteiro Lobato, Tarsila do Amaral, Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Marquesa de Santos, Luiz Gama and many others. Dividing the space are also grandiose tomb artworks made by renowned sculptors such as Victor Brecheret, Galileo Emendabilli and Bruno Giorgi, commissioned by the city's most traditional families.
This application allows the user to make self-guided visits to Consolação Cemetery, with a series of assembled itineraries and the possibility of searching by name of the buried illustrious person, activity of that person or the name of the author of the tomb art.
The planned itineraries are:
- 20 unmissables
- Tomb art - important sculptors
- Tomb art - unknown author
- Architectural Periods
- Modernists
- Politicians - Empire
- Politicians - Republic
- Industrialists, coffee growers and self-employed professionals
- Artists, intellectuals, public figures
- Urban Stories
- All important
Once a grave is selected, the app shows the location of both the grave and the user, making it easy to find the location. There is also a photo of the tomb and a text about the history of the buried person or the artist.
The application is the result of an agreement signed between PUC-SP and the Municipal Funeral Service of São Paulo.
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