Esplanada Brasilia Hotel

Feira do Guará

by hugolorenzetti

This marketplace in nearby satellite city of Guará may be a very interesting place for those who like markets with local produce. Of course, it is not a tourist attraction nor has it the infrastructure for that purpose, and people who cannot hold their gringo attitude should avoid this, much more because of the disturbance they will cause than because they are going to be robbed, killed, abducted or anything like that.

The market is a big group of stalls under a roof that is open from Thursdays to Sundays. Most stalls sell inexpensive clothing items (not good quality, though, ate least not always), but there are also many selling spices, items produced in the Northeast, like rapadura (non-refined sugar loaves, eaten as desserts or added to coffee), bottled butter, cajuina (beverage made of cashew, the fruit which the cashew nut is attached to) and, of course, cachaça. There are also food stalls with tipical food from the Northeast, the North and the Centre-West, which are cheap and very good.

Best days to visit are Thursdays and Fridays because you can get there by underground (Estação Feira) and there won't be this awful quantity of people that visit the Feira at weekends.

Foreign Ministry

by NedHopkins

The beautiful gardens of the Ministério das Relações Exteriores were designed by Brazil's foremost landscape artist, Burle Marx (who worked on the grounds of most of the main buildings).

The sculpted -- or chiseled -- effect of the building's columns is not evident in this photograph.

Officially the Palácio dos Arcos, the building is better known as the Palácio do Itamaraty.

Brasilia

by raquelsathler

"Brasilia the capital"

Brasilia was constructed between 1956 and 1960, during the government of President Juscelino Kubitschek. It was inaugurated, as Brasil's new capital, on April 21, 1960. Its master plan ("Plano Piloto") was conceived by Lucio Costa, and its major buildings were designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
Planned for only 500,000 inhabitants, Brasilia has seen its population grow much more than expected. Several satellite towns have been created over the years to house the extra inhabitants. Brasilia's total population (including the satellite cities) is now over 2,000,000 inhabitants

Capital of Brazil, home of candangos

by pothalion

Candangos are the native people. They are nice and friendly.

I've been there just once, for an afternoon. I had this interview with the Agriculture Ministry staff, to discuss bamboo stuff. Me, Celina and kind Dr. Tarciso Filgueiras (one of the top bamboo taxonomists in Brazil!).

So, after the interview, we had half an hour to walk around the Esplanade of the Highplan (bad, bad translation :=) ).

Congress, Presidential house, Ministrys, etc... It's all there, concentrated and easily maneuvered by the politicians.

You know, a lot of people think that Brasília was built in nowhere from nothing to move the political decisions away from the concious masses of urban Rio, former capital. I can agree.

Damn with this, today Brasília is what it is. And it is beautifull, despite all its contrasts.