After spending nearly five days in this automobile and mall obsessed city, we headed to the airport for our less than two hour flight to Vitoria, in the state of Espiritu Santo.
Our flight wasn’t till 8pm, so that gave me plenty of time to venture into the city one last time–but this time without the entire group. Anne and I hopped on a taxi after breakfast and made our way to the Museo de Arte Moderna de Brasilia. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, this building, reminiscent of Saturn, houses an impression collection of contemporary art. After snapping a few photos of the exterior, we made our way into the museum. Today’s collections focused on contemporary Brazilian artists–with a plethora of photography, paintings, installation pieces, and other ‘avante garde’ pieces typical of any world class city’s museum’s modern art collection.
After our visit to the museum, we walked down to the Cathedral, also designed by Niemeyer. Quite unlike any other Catholic Cathedral, this house of worship’s architectural design reads future modernism.
We ended our leisurely stroll of the city center at the Praça dos Três Poderes [Plaza of the Three Powers]. Here one finds the centers of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Brazilian federal government. Prominent amongst these three buildings is the Camara dos Deputados–which includes the two symetrical towers and two adjoining structures. The first is in the shape of a dome and the second is in the shape of a…giant cereal bowl. 
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