History of Brasilia

Brasilia, now with two and a half million inhabitants, is known worldwide for having
applied the principles established in the Charter of Athens 1933 and have concretised
the international urbanistic thinking of the '50s.
Its construction began in 1956, with its urban planner Lcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer
the principal architect. Three and a half years later, on April 21, 1960, officially it
became the capital of Brazil.
Planalto Palace
Brasilia has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987, the only city
built in the twentieth century that has received this honor.

The transfer of the equity to the inside

Brasilia was built to be the new capital of the country, with the idea of transferring the
federal capital, located on the coast, inland, thus helping to populate that area of the
country, where people from across the nation, especially the northeast region of Brazil,
would be hired for construction.
This idea of moving the capital of Brazil into the country has existed since the colonial
era. About 1700, the Portuguese court to various problems that eventually became the
main motivations for considering the change in the capital faced: the constant attacks
of pirates, smuggling, attacks from other countries