This thesis deals with the impacts of religious feasts and holidays on tourism at Vysočina region. It is divided into several parts. In the first part the work introduces some terms that may not be known to all readers. The second part pays attention to more detailed characteristic of religious tourism, its participants and specifics. The World Religious Tourism Association is introduced in this chapter. There is also a description of religious tourism in the Czech Republic with the brief specification of sacred monuments and introduction of the pilgrimage tradition in the country. The next part concerns the inclusion of religious monuments, pilgrimages and mostly the feasts and holidays within the cultural heritage. There is briefly introduced the tradition of pilgrimage in the Czech Republic and we can find out a list of types of the religious monuments and buildings according to the National Heritage Institute. The most important part of this chapter are Christian feasts and holidays. They are sorted out, described by their origin and the Saints and female Saints are mentioned separately. At the end of the thesis in the annex is presented the chronological overview of the most important feasts of the Czech liturgical calendar. The following chapter deals with the Vysočina region and its characteristics. It acquaints the reader with the most important natural and cultural attractivities of this region and briefly describes tourism and religious tourism in this part of the region. At the end of this chapter are presented the most visited and most important religious monuments and places of pilgrimage of the region. Finally in the last part are evaluated the outcomes of the research realized on place of pilgrimage (St. John Nepomuk at Zelená Hora near Žďár nad Sázavou)

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-10-04T17:01:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Denílson Meireles Barbosa.pdf: 5499966 bytes, checksum: a2510f0abd283c3199e32e1aa09c6f02 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-04T17:01:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Denílson Meireles Barbosa.pdf: 5499966 bytes, checksum: a2510f0abd283c3199e32e1aa09c6f02 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This thesis is aimed at researching the tradition of the pilgrimages of Saint Anthony, inherited for generations and often carried out by family members, which occur in the hinterland of the San Francisco River valley in the north of the state of Minas Gerais. The delimited empirical field is the village of Serra das Araras, the place of the centennial celebration that attracts every year thousands of people. In order to carry out this research, fieldwork was done during and beyond the festival period. Some groups of pilgrims were followed for two years running, from the organization of the material structure to the arrival at the village of Serra das Araras, having been followed along the festival in order to observe, describe and analyze the devotional practices. A field diary was used to facilitate the daily data records within the party. Interviews with pilgrims and devotees were conducted during and outside the festival period, prioritizing the older ones by considering the accumulation of knowledge and practices in the history of this tradition celebrated annually. The was an attempt to address the aspects of inheritance and memory in the traditional festival by using authors who could serve as a reference to understand and interpret, from the concepts proposed by them, the pilgrimages and devotional practices within the festival. Considering the individual and collective experience of the devotees and pilgrims involved annually with this tradition, it is perceived the need to understand the relevance of the form of maintenance of knowledge and religious practices in the cultural context of the festival / Esta tese tem por objeto pesquisar a tradição das romarias de Santo Antônio herdada por gerações, quase sempre familiares, ocorridas no sertão do são Francisco no norte de Minas Gerais. O campo empírico delimitado é o distrito de Serra das Araras, lugar da festa centenária que atrai todos os anos milhares de pessoas. Para realizar esta pesquisa foi feito trabalho de campo de campo durante e fora do período da festa. Alguns grupos de romeiros foram acompanhados por dois anos seguidos, desde a organização da estrutura material até a chegada ao distrito de Serra das Araras, local da festa, tendo sido acompanhados durante a festa com o objetivo de observar, descrever e analisar as práticas devocionais. Utilizou-se de um diário de campo para facilitar os registros de dados cotidianos no interior da festa. Foram realizadas entrevistas durante e fora do período da festa com romeiros e devotos, priorizando os devotos de maior idade por considerar o acúmulo de saberes e fazeres na história da tradição celebrada anualmente. Buscou-se abordar os aspectos da herança e da memória na tradicional festa recorrendo a autores que pudessem servir de referencia para entender e interpretar, a partir dos conceitos propostos pelos mesmos, as romarias e as práticas devocionais no interior da festa. Considerando a experiência individual e coletiva dos devotos e Romeiros envolvidos anualmente com esta tradição, entende-se a necessidade de compreender a relevância da forma de manutenção dos saberes e fazeres religiosos no contexto cultural da festa