Valley Cafe and Royal Route and their stories

Valley Cafe and Royal Route and their stories
Hello friends today we will start some threads on the old Vale do Café, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.Let's start talking about an enigmatic neighborhood of Paraiba do Sul.

 The author of the text is a resident of the neighborhood Burning BloodAndré Salgueiro


Burns Blood is a municipality of the district of Paraíba do Sul, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is part of the 2nd district of the city. Its history, though short, is significant and is temporarily attached to the Gold Cycle and the New Way. Combining the locations that make you part, has approximately 2,200 residents, according to the IBGE in the 2010 Census.
            Around from 1698 to 1704, Garcia Rodrigues Paes opened the New Path, linking the Rio de Janeiro to the Minas Gerais. This way, known today as the Royal Road, was intended to facilitate the logistics of precious stones that were sent to Portugal to supply the Portuguese Crown.
            And it is at this important time in Brazilian history that Burns Blood fits. The neighborhood began to be created after becoming a stopping point for drovers, who took the gold through mules.
            When drovers passed Paraiba do Sul, they made burning-Blood a stopping point for shelter and took advantage of the location to cauterize the wounds of mules and horses used to transport gold. Therefore, the neighborhood was named Burning Blood, because this place was burned the blood of animals for healing. According to historians, the exact location of this stopping point is where today is located the Square Sebastiana Nunes.
            In the same period, the country was moved by slave labor. In Paraíba do Sul, there were 22,000 slaves at this time. Many of them worked in the coffee plantation, sugarcane, corn and other products on the Burning Blood neighborhood and farms located in Marrecas.
            The history of Burning Blood district also has ties to the martyr of the Minas Conspiracy, Tiradentes. In 1781, the Queen Doña Maria Tiradentes I appointed as commander of the New Way. This path was traversed by him and his patrol, but I had no shelter at Burning Blood, as was staying in Sebollas on the farm of his compatriot Dona Ana Mariana Barboza Teixeira de Mattos, who also defended their libertarian causes.
            In 1842, Duque de Caxias camped with his troops in Stone Stakeout (one of the largest natural heritage of the city), which measures approximately 800 meters in height. He was en route to Minas Gerais in order to avoid one of numerous rebellions that took place at the time. The ridge of stone, Duque de Caxias watched with his binoculars rebels firing in the Madureira Bridge on the border of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. After viewing the scene, he migrated to the bridge and managed to avoid the rebellion.
            The story also reveals that there was a bandit named Manoel Henriques. He was a gentleman of great possessions in Portugal, country of birth, but came to Brazil to become a bandit. The gold coming from Minas Gerais by the "Royal Road" and would be transported to Portugal was stolen by Manoel and his gang, who were lurking in the "Stone Stakeout" waiting for the caravans that came with gold. After assail the drovers, they took the jewels and hid in Stone Stakeout, which defends the myth that to this day the there is gold on the spot and which is guarded by the "Mother of Gold", a well-known myth also in the region Midwest of Brazil.

            Today, the burning-Blood neighborhood stands out for its residents workers, for being a peaceful, small-town neighborhood with natural beauty, harmonious, with businesses and agricultural production. Your story should be proud of, recognition and appreciation.