Praça Dom Sebastião

Dom Sebastião Square is located in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is bordered on the north by Independência Avenue, on the east by Dom Sebastião Lane, on the south by Irmão José Otão Street and on the west by Sarmento Leite Street. It was named after the diocesan bishop Dom Sebastião Dias Laranjeira. The first mention of the site can be found in an 1847 request from the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Conception, asking to fix the alignment of its future church and, at the same time, demanding that the square between the streets of Barbosa (now Barros Cassal Street) and Brigadeira (now Conceição Street) be demarcated. On September 25, 1848, the councillors authorized the exchange of land between the City Hall and the Santa Casa, with the latter transferring part of the area, and another portion being expropriated from Lieutenant Colonel Antônio Joaquim da Silva Mariante and Manoel Joaquim da Silva. With the construction of the Church of Our Lady of the Conception in 1851, the area became known as Conceição Square, a name officially recognized on 20 October 1857. In 1863, Antônio Mariante volunteered to plant pine trees in the square and, on October 28, 1884, it was renamed to its current name. In 1889, the square was leveled and landscaped and, in 1904, it received the railing that belonged to the Marechal Deodoro and XV de Nove

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