(With contributions by Yahoo Brazil editors Cassiano Gobbet, Fernando Vives, and Tainah Fernandes) Known for: Paranoa Lake, uber-modern Oscar Niemeyer-designed Metropolitan Cathedral, the only World ...

Brasilia, Brazil — Some visitors still sneer that this capital, bulldozed from the wilderness 36 years ago, is a city without a soul. But many of metropolitan Brasilia’s nearly 2 million residents ...

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, ...

While Sao Paulo may be the most populous city in the country and Rio de Janeiro the most popular, Brasilia is the capital city of Brazil. It is one of 12 host cities during the World Cup. Here’s a ...

Oscar Niemeyer the Brazilian architect who died this week will be best remembered for Brasilia, the city he helped design in the late 1950s. Niemeyer's modernist architecture made Brazil's federal ...

Ahead of the 2014 World Cup, Bleacher Report is running a series of articles looking at the cities that are set to host the tournament next summer. Having begun in Belo Horizonte, next up on the list ...