During the last years, the neighborhood of Lapa has been changing and becoming a very attractive area as an option for the nightlife in Rio de Janeiro. This cross-curricular essay intends to analyze how the resumption found in Lapa has been taking place, connecting it to the imaginarium built over the area. Such recovery has been strongly supported on the imaginarium set by the bohemian spirit of Lapa in the 20s and 30s. The imaginary will be approached in two different ways: the one built in the bohemian circle s crib, responsible for transforming Lapa into a myth, and the imaginarium built socially and politically, introduced by the owners of the power, who wanted its destruction and moralization – with the prostitution found in the neighborhood as the main striking spot – but responsible for legitimizing the area through an opposite influx movement. There will be used as analysis references texts wrote by people who witnessed the bohemian process through the streets of Lapa, such as the book of Chronicles Roteiro da Lapa… e outros roteiros, wrote by Alberto Deodato; Adeus Lapa, wrote by Hernani do Irajá; Noturno da Lapa and Lapa, wrote by Luís Martins and Lábios que Beijei, wrote Aguinaldo Silva.