Daily Archives: October 30, 2010

I arrived in Brasí­lia in the afternoon of 30 October 2010 after a slight delay in Sí£o Paulo because of the weather (it is, after all, spring and the beginning of the rainy season in Brazil). With only a few hours of sunlight left in the day, I visited the Ermida Dom Bosco (Dom Bosco Chapel) in the Dom Bosco Ecological Park on the shore of Lake Paranoí¡. The chapel was built in honor of the Italian saint Dom Bosco who, in 1883, had a dream in which he saw a utopian city in the New World located between the 15º and 20º parallels. That dream would later inspire the construction of Brasí­lia, the capital of Brazil. From the chapel, one can see the esplanade of the ministries of Brazil and the Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge, named in honor of the Brazilian president who conceived of the idea to build a new capital for Brazil. There, on the shore of Lake Paranoí¡, I witnessed my first sunset in the Southern Hemisphere, and what a glorious sunset it was. Continue reading →