Brazil

Brazil's entries are shaped by three separate colonisations and one act of planning. Salvador was the capital and the largest slave port in the Americas, and its music, food and religion follow from that directly. Ouro Preto's baroque was paid for by gold and carved by a sculptor who worked with tools strapped to his wrists. Paraty's streets were laid to be flushed by the tide. And Brasília was drawn on empty ground in 1956 and finished in four years.