There is a popular legend that 19th-century Italian priest Don Bosco, the founder of the Catholic Salesian Order and a revered saint, had a prophetic dream in 1883 that predicted a flourishing, ...

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília. Constructed during the latter half of the 1950s and founded in ...

There are parts of Brasilia, Brazil's federal capital created out of nothing in the middle of the country in the late 1950s and early '60s, that seem straight from the set of Thunderbirds.

The construction of this ultra-modern city, situated in the centre of Brazil, began in 1956 and since its official foundation on April 21st 1960, it has served the purpose for which it was built: to ...

Brasilia, Brazil at night time is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 26 crew member on the International Space Station. Whether seen at night or during the day, the capital city of ...