The Brasília Digital TV Tower ( Portuguese: ''Torre de TV Digital de Brasília'') is a

broadcast tower Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There are two main types: guyed and self-supporting structures. They are among the tallest human-m ...

which made digital television signal available for the whole

Federal District A federal district is a specific administrative division in one of various federations. These districts may be under the direct jurisdiction of a federation's national government, as in the case of federal territory (e.g., India, Malaysia), or the ...

and

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. It is also known as the “Flor do Cerrado”, the

Cerrado The Cerrado () is a vast ecoregion of Tropics, tropical savanna in central Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Paraná ...

flower. Initially planned to open to the public on April 21, 2010, as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the City of Brasília, the tower was only inaugurated two years later on April 21, 2012. The tower was one of the final designs of Brazilian architect

Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was b ...

, and cost R$75 million. Torre_de_TV_Digital_no_amanhecer

The tower is 182 meters tall to the top of the antenna. The enclosed building is reinforced concrete structure for 120 meters, with 50m of metallic structure above that, topped by a 12m

television antenna A television antenna, also called a television aerial (in British English), is an antenna specifically designed for use with a television receiver (TV) to receive terrestrial over-the-air (OTA) broadcast television signals from a television s ...

. The main building contains two observatories. The highest one, 80 meters above the ground, contains a restaurant with a panoramic view. The other one is used as an art gallery.

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External links

''Conheça Brasília''
a website sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism for the promotion of tourism in Brasília {{coord, 15, 41, 58, S, 47, 49, 47, W, region:BR-DF_type:landmark_source:kolossus-dewiki, display=title Towers completed in 2012 Radio masts and towers Towers in Brazil Buildings and structures in the Federal District (Brazil) Tourist attractions in Federal District (Brazil) Oscar Niemeyer buildings Observation towers Restaurant towers