The civic festivities and their ephemeral architecture in the municipality of Vitória (ES) on the 1st Republic

ABSTRACT The following article deals with the continuities and permanencies of festivities that had their origins in the early Modern Age and that survived, with different meanings, until the end of the 1st Republic in Espírito Santo, Brazil. Despite the newly established Republic being impregnated with Enlightenment thought updated by Comte’s positivism, its purposes for the construction of a nation and its citizens involved the continuity of traditions and symbolism in the execution of what we call civic festivities, that derive, paradoxically, from models created in monarchical absolutism.