Tourist Practice and Rhetoric of Space in "Viagens na Galiza" (1889) by Silveira da Mota

Abstract

Tourism is born from organized journeys for goals related to leisure, especially since the nineteenth century, being the journey a founder and simultaneously contrasting concept.The concept of the traveler was built in various forms and under various aspects and literature had an essential role in its construction, including the romantic aesthesia. Romanticism brings the vogue of the journey to Spain.This paper proposes a geocritical approach of the travel book authored by Inácio Francisco Teixeira da Mota, Viagens na Galiza, published in 1889, by the typography AM Pereira. We intend to highlight, besides the tourist itinerary, the design of spatial rhetoric which will shape the images and narratives that still linger in our memory and which embody the concept of tourist place, i.e. "places where there are tourists, where we were preceded and where we will befollowed by many others"(Knafou, 2001: 64).