Qualla: Goiânia https://qualla.com/goiania en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/c/goiania-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Goiânia https://qualla.com/goiania Goiânia: Introduction https://qualla.com/goiania/ Photo credit Andrenaves, CC BY-SA 4.0. Imagine drawing a city before anyone has built a single brick. Atilio Correia Lima drew Goiania in 1933 - concentric rings spreading out from a central plaza, Avenida Goias running north-south, Avenida Anhanguera east-west, intersecting at the Praca Civica where the state government would rise. The plan assumed 50,000 inhabitants. Governor Pedro Ludovico Teixeira commissioned it because the old capital, the City of Goias, could not handle the administrative needs of a growing state. By 2016 Goiania held over 1.5 million people in the city proper and 2.5 million in the metropolitan area. The art-deco buildings of the original plan still stand at the center, dignified and a little lost, surrounded by the sprawl they never anticipated.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/c/goiania-wk/6vhc-goi-nia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Goiânia: A Capital Built on Purpose https://qualla.com/goiania/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Brazil has a particular fondness for planned capitals - Brasilia is the most famous, but Goiania came first. When the military revolt of 1930 brought Pedro Ludovico to power as governor of Goias, he revived an idea that had been debated since 1753: move the capital somewhere more...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/c/goiania-wk/6vhc-goi-nia-a-capital-built-on-purpose.mp3 0:06 2 full Goiânia: Getting There https://qualla.com/goiania/ Photo credit Dasneviano at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Good air service runs non-stop from Sao Paulo in about an hour and twenty minutes. From Goiania, there are numerous flights daily to other Brazilian cities, either direct or through Sao Paulo or Brasilia. Santa Genoveva International Airport sits on the northeast side of town, wi...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/c/goiania-wk/6vhc-goi-nia-getting-there.mp3 0:06 3 full Goiânia: What to Do By Day https://qualla.com/goiania/ Photo credit Boaventuravinicius, CC BY-SA 3.0. Goiania does not try to be a tourist city. During daylight hours the urban center has a few parks, some shopping streets, a few museums - the Museu de Arte de Goiania, founded in 1969 as the first public art museum in the Central-West region, sits inside the Bosque dos Buritis wi...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/c/goiania-wk/6vhc-goi-nia-what-to-do-by-day.mp3 0:06 4 full Goiânia: Sebos and Shopping Streets https://qualla.com/goiania/ Photo credit Fronteira, CC BY-SA 4.0. For a particular kind of traveler, the best reason to visit Goiania is the sebos - used bookshops that crowd Rua 3 and Rua 4 in the central sector. They are smaller than the sebos of Sao Paulo, but they carry rare books, CDs, and LPs at prices that reward patience. Avenida 85 is ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/c/goiania-wk/6vhc-goi-nia-sebos-and-shopping-streets.mp3 0:06 5 full Goiânia: A City for the Evenings https://qualla.com/goiania/ Photo credit BMartins (WMB), CC BY-SA 4.0. What Goiania lacks by day it provides by night. The city's hot climate produces a culture of outdoor conviviality - people head out in the evening, filling bars and pubs and restaurants until well past midnight. The young people who came here to study at the Universidade Federal ...

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