Pivô presents Visit #1 of Circuito Lina, a walking program activating Pivô Coaty

Pivô, in partnership with the City of Salvador, held Visit #1 of Circuito Lina on March 27 (Friday), starting at 9:30 a.m. The activity was part of a program of walks and guided visits that marks a new chapter in the reactivation of the Coaty, inviting participants to engage in routes and conversations shaped by different readings of Ladeira da Misericórdia.

With trajectories rooted in Ladeira da Conceição da Praia and Ladeira da Preguiça, Edmilson Rodrigues dos Santos, Marcelo Teles, and Nilma Santos led a route that wove these hillsides together with Ladeira da Misericórdia, bringing forth relations of proximity marked by continuities, ruptures, and struggles that characterize the daily life of residents and workers in the hills of the Historic Center.

The stories of Seu Edmilson—shaped over decades in the arches of Conceição and through his lifelong relationship with Misericórdia—intertwined with the recent experiences of Marcelo and Nilma leading Centro Cultural Que Ladeira é Essa?, on Ladeira da Preguiça, where cultural practices and community actions contribute to keeping the territory alive. From these narratives, the walk became a space for the active production of memory.

In this sense, the first walk of the program took shape as a gesture of proximity that recognizes Misericórdia as an inherent part of a living territory, where memory, presence, and imagination continue to produce the city in the present.

The activity was free and open to the public, aimed at researchers and individuals interested in urban history, memory, and territory. Capacity was limited due to access conditions and site restrictions related to ongoing construction.

Each walk is led by different invited guests, bringing their own research focuses and singular relationships with the territory, whether through architecture, urban history, cultural and social practices, memory, or lived experiences in the city.

Acknowledgements to the City of Salvador, especially the Municipal Secretariat of Culture and Tourism.

Photos: Patricia Almeida