Pampulha Modern Ensemble

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Best time to go: December–April
Budget: $$
Coordinates: Open in maps

On the shore of an artificial lake in Belo Horizonte, a young Oscar Niemeyer drew the buildings that announced Brazilian modernism to the world: a casino, a ballroom, a yacht club and the curving church of São Francisco de Assis. Commissioned in 1940 as the core of a visionary garden-city district, the ensemble bent concrete into daring new shapes and wove painting, sculpture and landscape design into the architecture itself. UNESCO listed the Pampulha Modern Ensemble as World Heritage in 2016.

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