01/02/2014 GMT

We travel through Brazil to find out how its preparing for all the visitors expected to arrive for this year's football World Cup. We start in Rio to find a city still tackling pollution problems, but making big strides forward in clearing and pacifying its favelas, ready for residents there to welcome fans with open arms. From there, we head for one architects vision of a space-age future in the capital, Brasilia and find out why one cult thinks it might well be the birthplace of a new civilisation. We end our trip by discovering Brazil�s wild wetlands, the Pantanal.