When Juscelino Kubitschek became Mayor of Belo Horizonte in 1940, he commissioned the young architect Oscar Niemeyer to design five significant buildings around the new artificial lake Pampulha. Together they constructed a chapel, a casino (now an art museum), a yacht club, and a ballroom. The hotel, the fifth design, never came to fruition. These buildings soon became landmarks of Brazilian modernism. The project was also the beginning of a close collaborative relationship between Kubitschek and Niemeyer, which coalesced with the construction of the new capital Brasília a decade later.

This tour includes transportation, it is available in 6 or 8 hours duration. Hotel pickup in Zona Sul.