Pal\u00e1cio da Aclama\u00e7\u00e3o, the former Governor\u2019s Palace in the center of Salvador, is one of many eclectic Italian style buildings that spread around the world at the turn of the twentieth century. These buldings are emblematic of the arrival of the bourgeoisie to power; a time of globalization, which we tend to forget, a time of domination of European culture, puritanism, wealth, extreme poverty, hypocrisy, imperialism, and timeless certainty which preceded the horror of the Great War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the governors left the building, in the late 1960s, it decayed in a most enchanting way, like all things in Salvador; as the State Guesthouse, the building received Queen Elizabeth II as well as indiscriminately hosting events such as debutantes\u2019 balls honoring politicians daughters, the beautiful and the ugly. Though turned into a museum it was never used as such and gradually became one of the cities\u2019 mysteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The interior, (full of frescoes depicting Tuscany or the south of France, floral motifs, and so on) is perfectly at peace, provided one doesn\u2019t open the windows. Doing so brings in the powerful tropical light, smell, and humidity that tells us everything is OK, but for what\u2019s outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRoteiro para Visita\u00e7\u00e3o,\u201d which translates as \u201cvisiting itinerary,\u201d brings this exterior into the building; an invasion of what might have been there in the past, or could come to be in the future. A living aroeira\u2014a tree with strong symbolic and religious connotation; old, used, and discarded wooden lamp posts, unused construction beams; manifestations of the different phases of wood and of the names we give things as we take or dismiss them as our property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You may walk around. You should, for things will come and go like old acquaintances that we name, use, and throw away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Salvador, February 201<\/p>\n\n\n
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