A 90-minute flight from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 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 in 1960 by the authoritarian 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.) Pictured here is one of the colossal edifices which best typifies Brasilia´s modern architecture, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Apparition, designed by Niemayer and completed in 1970 - unlike just about any cathedral you have probably ever seen.
Read more in our post Brasilia, Brazil´s Tomorrowland Capital.
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