In the 1940s, Belo Horizonte took a bold step toward modernity. The city’s ambitious mayor, Juscelino Kubitschek, commissioned the rising architect Oscar Niemeyer to design a leisure complex around the newly created Pampulha Lake. The result was a visionary ensemble of architecture, landscape, and art that would become a cornerstone of Brazilian modernism.

The Pampulha Ensemble includes a church, a casino (now an art museum), a yacht club, and a ballroom, all designed in Niemeyer’s signature curves and concrete. The project also marked the beginning of a long-standing partnership between Kubitschek and Niemeyer, later culminating in the creation of Brasília, the new capital of the country.

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

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