Brasilia and Rome celebrate their founding anniversaries together. Rome is a little older: while the capital of the Brazilian Three Powers turns 62 years old, the "capital of the world" turns 2775 years old today.
Known as “Natale di Roma” (Christmas of Rome), the anniversary of the Italian capital was forgotten with the fall of the Roman Empire, and revived during the unification of Italy there are more than 150 years.
In the 1960s, mayors revived the celebration.
In Caesar's time, two scholars, the historian Marco Terenzio Varrone and the astrologer Taruzio Lucio, established the birth of the Roman Republic in 509 BC and added up the 244 years of the regime of the Seven Kings, the first form of government in the city-state of Rome.
Thus, April 21 was defined as the day on which the legendary Romulus established the city's initial perimeter in 753 BC.
Brasília, inaugurated on April 21, 1960, the city was built in record time by order of the then president Juscelino Kubitscheck. With designs created by architects Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, the new Brazilian capital was built in four years.
