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Dear A Little of Our History - The Beginning

The idea of \u200b\u200btransferring the capital of Brazil into the country back on the times we were still a colony of Portugal, officials and personalities of that era knew the importance of expanding into the newly discovered continent and lands of the Central Plateau, which has been known since 1596, were part of discussions of this proposal ...

Map of Brazil Colony

Despite being a very important decision for the future then colony was only in 1750 that was the first suggestion about moving the capital to the countryside. The author of the proposal was the Genoese cartographer Francisco Tossi Columbine that during a trip through the Central Plateau drafted the Charter of Goiás in which he suggested that the future seat of government was in the region ...

Letter of Goiás

In the year 1761, the Prime Minister of Portugal, the Marquis of Pombal, who also defended the idea of \u200b\u200bmoving the capital, indicate the lands of the Amazon as ideal for the future seat of government ... This happened two years before the Rio de Janeiro to become the new capital of the country ...

Marquis of Pombal

The idea also joined the conspiracy in 1789 and claimed to the court in London that the new capital would be the city of Sao Joao del Rei in Minas Gerais. ..

Trial of the Conspirators

Meanwhile, back in London in the early nineteenth century the exiled journalist Hipólito José da Costa in 1813 began a series of publications in the Journal Correio Brasiliense that advocated the "transfer the capital to the central interior of the country near the headwaters of major rivers. " This refers to the area of \u200b\u200bthe springs of the Araguaia, Tocantins, São Francisco and Paraná, ie on the Central Plateau ...

Hipolito Jose da Costa

But the Patriarch of Independence, Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva, became the most fervent advocate of the idea of \u200b\u200bmoving the capital and in 1823 proposed to the Constituent Assembly that the Imperial capital is transferred to the County of Prince Paracatu in Minas Gerais and suggests names or Petropolis Brasilia ...

Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva

At the time of the empire was a constant concern in studying the ideal place for the deployment of the new city and diplomat and historian Francisco Adolfo Varnhagen, better known as Viscount of Porto Insurance, studied the subject for 43 years of his life, ie from 1834 to 1877 and it was he who suggested the location for the new capital "among the three lakes - Beautiful, Ugly and Mestre D'Armas ...

Visconde de Porto Seguro

But it was through a dream Italian, Father John Bosco Belchior, the new capital has been described. This happened in 1883 when Don Bosco had a prophetic dream in which foresaw the emergence of a new civilization "... I saw the innards of mountains and deep valley. Had, under the eyes, the incomparable riches of these regions, which will one day be discovered. I saw many precious metals mining, inexhaustible deposits of coal, oil deposits as abundant as ever found elsewhere. But not all. Between grades 15 and 20, there was plenty of land within a broad and long, which started from a point where it formed a lake . And then a voice said repeatedly: "When they come to explore the minerals hidden in the middle of these hills, will come here the Promised Land, flowing with milk and honey. It will be an inconceivable wealth '. "This is the location where he is Brasilia, which was erected on the shores of Lake Paranoa ...

Don Bosco

And finally ... 141 years after the first suggestion of moving the capital, Article 3 of the 1891 Constitution says: "It belongs to the Union in the central highlands of the Republic, an area of \u200b\u200b14,400 km squares, which will shortly be demarcated to provide it to future Federal Capital. Sole paragraph - make the change in the capital, the current District will become a Federal State "...

Constituent Assembly of 1891

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