- Brasília’s chief attraction is its extraordinary city architecture, its late-1950s vision of the future now charmingly retro, even sliding over into kitsch.
- Brasília is a city built from scratch in 1956, in a clearing in the Amazon Rainforest, built specifically to be the country’s capital.
- Brasília’s unique layout — the brainchild of Lucio Costa — is often compared to an airplane, a bird in flight, or a bow and arrow.
- The design is known as the Plano Piloto, in which Brasilia is shaped like an airplane with residential zones and an area with government buildings.
- Brasilia has been the capital of Brazil for 57 years. It was founded on April 21, 1960. This makes Brasilia a relatively young city compared to most Brazilian cities.
- The street map of Brasilia is the most basic version which provides you with a comprehensive outline of the city’s essentials.
- As the world's first capital city conceived by modern standards of urban planning, Brasília is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
- Brasília was the capital city of the South American country Brazil. (AUDIO: The Thirteenth Stone [+]Justin Richards, The Sarah Jane Adventures (BBC Audio, 2007).)
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- Brasília, conceived as a workable, utopic answer to urban chaos, replaced Rio as capital in 1960 and remains an impressive monument to national initiative.