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World Service,21 Apr 2010,10 mins

The building of Brasilia

Witness History

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Fifty years ago the newly-built city of Brasilia was inaugurated. It was to be the capital of Brazil - built on an empty plain hundreds of kilometres inland - it was a futuristic vision in concrete and steel.

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