Hotel Glória
| Hotel Glória | |
|---|---|
Glória, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| Coordinates | 22°55′21″S 43°10′22″W / 22.92250°S 43.17278°W |
| Opening | 1922 |
| Closed | 2008 |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 630 |
The Hotel Glória was a grand hotel in the
Originally the hotel had a casino (closed in 1946, when gambling was prohibited in Brazil), a theatre, ballrooms, recreation areas, and only about 280 rooms but was later expanded to about 630.[1] Due to its proximity to the financial and political centre of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Hotel Glória always harbored great movie stars, singers, politicians, and heads of state.
Hotel Glória was built with 180 rooms. It was expanded by 100 rooms with a wing to the southwest, and a 400-room addition was added at an unknown date. The hotel has a reinforced concrete skeleton, and each room had a bathroom and a telephone. It was later furnished with a swimming pool, a steam sauna, an automatic phone billing system, a meeting room and equipment for video-conferences, and a heliport.
In 2008, the hotel was bought by Brazilian entrepreneur
As of early 2018, however, renovation works have not resumed and the building is still derelict.
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-470-25713-5. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
- ^ Pennafort, Roberta (2017-03-18). "Hotel Glória vive era de abandono pós-Eike" [Hotel Glória lives a post-Eike abandonment era]. O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2018-02-13.
- Folha de S. Paulo(in Portuguese). Retrieved 2018-02-13.
- Folha de S. Paulo(in Portuguese). Retrieved 2018-02-13.
