Brasília, Distríto Federal, Brasil - City Info
Urban planner Lucio Costa, architect Oscar Niemeyer and landscape architect Burle Marx created the inland capital of Brasília, inaugurated on April 21st, 1960 by President Juscelino Kubitschek. Shaped like a plane seen from above, or bow and arrow, the city is divided into Districts. Your city tour will include the Plaza of Three Powers - the president’s Palácio do Planalto, the Palácio do Congresso and the Palácio da Justiça, the National Theater built like a pyramid, the television Tower (a 218 meter high structure), and the Plaza of Congress.
