Brasilia: Attractions and more...
At Eixo Monumental (Monumental Shaft), the large avenue forms a bird body and
houses Praça dos Três Poderes (Três Poderes Public Square),
Esplanada dos Ministérios, the Cathedral, museums and monuments. The
wings shaft, formed by several parallels roads, houses residential Super-Quadras
and commerce and services sectors. At peninsulas that go in Paranoá artificial
lagoon, are located residential sectors, big houses and embassies.
Although lines, which compose the original city plane, have been preserved,
administrative demands and population growth require urbanistic changes. Many
appendages were incorporated to main buildings. Even with the existence of viaducts
that eliminates streets and avenues crossroads, the increasing of vehicles traffic
obligated signals installation to control it in some city points.
But Brasilia isn't only a bold architecture great exposition, which gave to
the city the title of Cultural Patrimony of Humanity by Unesco. The buildings
are included in immense gardens and there are parks, such as Parque da Cidade
(City Park) and Parque Nacional de Brasília (Brasilia National Park).
It has a lot of museums and theaters. Its restaurants, offering since Brazilian
regional dishes to the international high-level dishes, are the best on the
country. The nightlife has complete and animated bars. Establishments with high
international pattern are part of the large number of hotels.
