Welcome to Brasília Brazil! This is the national capital founded in 1960 it's
the third most populous city shaped like an airplane many of the buildings here
were built in modernist style by Oscar Niemeyer and are truly out of this world.
Let's go check it out we are in Brasilia now and we're staying at the Windsor
Hotel and we're at the gym and this is outside of our hotel nice this is
beautiful so the stadium was designed by Oscar Niemeyer he's a Brazilian
architect he died when he was 104 in the year 2012 and he designed a lot of
buildings here in Brasilia all the way up until the time of his death.
This was designed by Oscar Niemeyer were under the seashell right now and this
serves the kind of Pentagon building here in Brazil so we have the soldiers
and then on this side you can see circles on the ground are for the
soldiers to stand
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and how cool these birds are tips on their heads. This is called the JK memorial designed by
Oscar Niemeyer inaugurated in 81 and it is for the president Kubitschek who
found it Brazilian there he is right there and his tomb is right there
people and before Brasilia was created in the sixties before they moved the
capital, they did have some indigenous people here and they had to move.
okay so a few facts about Brasilia Brasilia is the capital of Brazil it was
moved here from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia which was virtually undeveloped
in the 50s in order for it to be a more centralized capital but it is central
east to west not north to south also second thing is this is the most
significant city for modern contemporary architecture we see a lot of really cool
shapes and lines to the buildings a lot of the buildings are developed by
architect Oscar Niemeyer he's Brazilian third fun fact is its master plan this
is a unesco world heritage site for its master planning in its urban
contemporary design and it is shaped like a plane when you look at the map
there's two wings of a plane which are like the main streets and then a Central
Avenue. Ipe tree
this right here is called the Dom Bosco church and it's a very famous for its
stained glass everything is blue in here
this is called Dom Bosco. The entire church is too
will do stained glass this is the only church of its kind with the blue stained
glass wall okay so the blue is to represent the sky and then the little
white parts are the stars represent the stars
and then the ceiling is also very unique you don't see a ceiling like this
the chandelier is done with Murano glass
honestly it feels like I've entered a gemstone like I'm inside of a gemstone
the shade of blue goes from light to dark from outside the whole roof is is
suspended with these pillars and you don't notice the color of the blue until
you go inside it's just stunning this is another Oscar Niemeyer building it's a
chapel and it's designed to look like the habit or the hat that the nuns wear
and it really reminds us of the buildings the gas station building in
Palm Springs who could be pictures and here it kind of looks like a dove for
peace but many people interpreted it as an airplane after touring the buildings
it's time to enjoy a traditional Brazilian lunch which means lots of
delicious steak
This is heart of palm here
beans, rice,
steak
these are some of the apartments here in Brasilia and they're built on stilts
it's very weak here they didn't want any obstruction on the ground floor so you
could walk wherever and they nice air flow. So this is the Ipe tree, big big pink bushes.
okay so so far impressions of Brasilia I really don't feel like I'm in Latin
America here it's a very unique.
so right behind me we have the Biblioteca Nacional Brasilia and then on
this side we have a museum in the cathedral check it out
Mike what do you think about Brazilian so far amazing two thumbs up
we love this modernist city we're so inspired everything is so cinematic here
we're so happy to be here you just how fast this is there's so many wide-open
spaces and because this is a planned city they
have very wide open boulevards here it's not like a normal freeway
this is Moselle national honesty no lil modest and it was designed by Oscar
Niemeyer and it was inaugurated in 2007 it has a spherical dome about 75 meters
the spaceship has landed going in Oscar Niemeyer Brasilia Brasilia turned into
spaceship this museum designed by Oscar Niemeyer
right here and then this giant dome it's held up by a few pillars we are inside
this futuristic design take me to your leader
so we just went inside the museum it felt like being in a spaceship it was
like entering another world it was really quiet in there and you really get
a sense of how futuristic and imaginative Oscar Niemeyer was check
this out guys we are underneath the catwalk Oscar Niemeyer was famous for
using catwalks in his architecture
now it's time to visit one of the most significant buildings in Brazil's
history the Cathedral of Brasilia it's designed in a crown like structure by
you guessed it Oscar Niemeyer it wouldn't be Brazil without popcorn and
then we have some other officials here this is the Cathedral probably the most
terrific spot in Brasilia this is meant to represent the glass was made by women
being inside the cathedral feels like we're underwater with the flood of light
and unique blue colors go inside to learn about the construction of this
Cathedral we're almost a decade between 1959 and 1969 but the church just stood
like this waiting to be built this is the glass artist on the Cathedral
it's a microphone look this is cool I can hear exactly what you're saying
hola mundo Brasilia talking they're so far away it's the coup stakes is amazing
this dome represents the bread this represents the altar and this is the
holy grail these are all the flags of the states of Brazil this is the foreign
ministry this is the Senate building we're taking a look at the government
buildings they're so unique so the dome building is the Senate when they make
decisions it is closed and then it gets approved by the deputies and so it goes
out to the world so it's a whole pit in these service ceilings they are not our
tool interiors so everything every detail that Niemeyer designed has a
purpose you can see the sketch it was designed in 1958
the final design so this sculpture is commonly identified with a dove eternal
flame of Liberty designed by Oscar Niemeyer here you can see the eternal
flame
we're right here
so here from here so these numbers designate the different blocks and you
have to designate whether you're north or south because it this is a
residential area all right guys we hope that you enjoyed this video of Brasilia
and get a chance to visit very soon one of the most unique cities in Brazil one
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