Museu da Casa Brasileira (MCB)

This guide to the Museu da Casa Brasileira in São Paulo opens with a puzzle: how a mansion under construction in 1942, at the height of World War II, still managed to import Portuguese marble across a submarine-hunted Atlantic. It follows Fábio Prado, a former mayor of São Paulo, who commissioned architect Wladimir Alves de Souza to copy the Imperial Palace at Petrópolis for his own home. You'll hear about Prado's wife, Renata Crespi. Listen for the marble underfoot at the entrance.