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Published: January 10th 2010
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Well, it was a kind of surprise for us to end up visiting Brasilia.
We had been debating about going there. Was it worth paying for another flight? Would we find time to go? When?
Now, our flight from Florianopolis to Manaus had a 3 hour stop over in... Brasilia.
We were quick to have a deal with a taxi driver and here we went for a private tour of this futuristic city from the fifties.
After Salvador (Bahia) and then Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia is the third capital of Brazil.
It was president Juscelino Kubitschek's initiative, the idea was to bring the capital away from the over populated coast so that it would be easier to reach from all parts of Brazil and also to develop the interior of the country.
On 21 April 1960, the capital of Brazil was shifted from Rio to Brasilia. Today although very quit at week-ends, it definitely is the center of political Brazil.
It is really worth a visit. While some of the buildings are monumental and others aesthetic, all clearly show what the view of the future was in the fifties and sixties. But time goes on and the buildings no
a longer represent the future. Just like the Gothic or Baroque buildings from Europe these architecture is now ageless.
The cathedral is particularly exceptional. It is totally surrounded by water so that the access is through a tunnel.
So here are our pictures, they are not that exceptional, some of them were taken through the windows of the taxi.
We hope you will enjoy them anyway.
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Silvana
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It worth
I always had the same doubt: should I visit Brasilia? Will it worth go there? Finally, at the end of 2008, I decided to spend the weekend there. I just loved. I don´t know if I will come back, but for sure it´s a place that worth go at least once... Saudade de vocês... beijooo