Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Known for: Paranoa Lake, uber-modern Oscar Niemeyer-designed Metropolitan Cathedral, the only World UNESCO Heritage city built in ...

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, ...

Few cities show bombast and brashness like Brasília. Fulfilling a promise in Brazil's constitution to have a federal capital built in the country's hinterlands, President Juscelino Kubitschek ordered ...

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 ...

For one month, Brazil will be putting its best cleated foot forward as the world turns its attention to the bustling, colorful country for the duration of the Fifa World Cup. For the uninitiated, it’s ...

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 ...