If you're thinking about a trip to Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, it's really worth your while to also give a thought to adding another several days for a visit to Brazil's singular capital, another 90-minute flight from either of those. Why is that, you might wonder?
Brasilia is the navel of South America's giant, smack in the middle of this sprawling, astonishing country, and this city of was created as its seat of government around a half century ago by the authoriarian administration of Juscelino Kubitschek, as a bid to help integrate Brazil's more far flung regions into the national fabric, with the idea of jump-starting the development of vast unpopulated areas of the interior and further consolidating the country's cultural and territorial unity.
For the visitor, Brazil's youngest city is a remarkable experience due for starters to its avant-garde futuristic design, overseen by Brazil's two greatest architectural geniuses of the 20th century, Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx. (Parenthetically, its climate is fairly even, with its warmest month, January, ranging between 17° and 27° Celsius (63-80° Fahrenheit) and its coolest, July, 13-25°C (55-77°F); Brasilia also tends to be a bit less expensive for buying stuff than São Paulo and Rio, while still offering a full complement of goods and services for every taste and pocketbook.)
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