Juazeiro do Padre Cícero: o patrimônio, o turismo e a folkmuseografia

Abstract

This article seeks to show how strong Religious Tourism is in the city of Juazeiro do Norte, and is the second largest center of pilgrimage and religious tourism in Brazil, being surpassed only by Aparecida, in São Paulo. The main cause is in the history of Father Cicero, popularly called "Padim Ciço", a remarkable figure in the history of Brazil, who was born in 1844 and died in 1934, and had his strong stance in Catholicism and Ceará politics. In Juazeiro do Norte, testimonies, environments, spaces and rituals attract millions of people and tourists annually, who are directed by belief, faith and curiosity, marked through the heritage linked to the priest, with spaces and environments produced without the rigor of museological expography, constituting something that we can call "folkmuseography".