Copacabana Palace
Copacabana Palace (currently branded as Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel), is a hotel in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, facing Copacabana beach. Designed by French architect Joseph Gire, it was built in a style that follows the line and model of the great beach hotels of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and opened on August 13, 1923.
| Copacabana Palace, A Belmond Hotel | |
|---|---|
| Hotel chain | Belmond |
| General information | |
| Location | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Address | 1702 Avenida Atlântica |
| Coordinates | 22.966944°S 43.178611°W |
| Opening | August 13, 1923 |
| Owner | Belmond |
| Management | Andréa Natal |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 6 |
| Floor area | 12,000 m2 (130,000 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Joseph Gire |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 243 |
| Number of suites | 127 |
| Number of restaurants | 3 |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
With over a century of existence, Belmond Copacabana Palace continues to be one of the most important hotel complexes in the city of Rio, and in Brazil, with two hundred and forty-three rooms (116 apartments and 127 suites), divided between the main and the annex building, in an area of twelve thousand square meters.
Belmond Copacabana Palace is known throughout Brazil for the international celebrities who stay at the hotel when visiting the city of Rio de Janeiro. Some famous guests include Walt Disney, Marlene Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, Brigitte Bardot, Jayne Mansfield, Paul McCartney, Janis Joplin, Madonna, Mick Jagger, Princess Diana, Carla Bruni, Halle Berry, Lana Del Rey, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and others. In addition, the hotel is also known for hosting some of the most popular social events in the country.
The hotel has been voted several times as the best hotel in South America, including in 2009, when it won the World Travel Award, one of the most important tourism awards in the world.