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34-626: It also includes the neighborhoods of Urca , Botafogo , Flamengo and Glória , on Guanabara Bay, and Santa Teresa , Catete , Laranjeiras , Cosme Velho , Humaitá , Lagoa , Jardim Botânico and Gávea , bordering on Tijuca Forest to the West or North. Zona Sul includes a number of favelas , such as Rocinha , close to São Conrado, Vidigal, close to Leblon, Cantagalo and Ladeira dos Tabajaras, in Copacabana, and Morro Dona Marta, in Botafogo. It

68-435: A beach house elsewhere. Many of the present inhabitants of Urca are the descendants of families who bought houses or plots when the area was originally developed. It is easy to see the successive phases of Urca's development strolling around the neighbourhood. Most of the residential houses date from the late 1920s to the late 1940s and are a portfolio of house styles popular at the time: art deco houses and apartment buildings,

102-481: A far lesser extent than any other neighbourhood in the Zona Sul . The commercial Rua Marechal Cantuária which leads traffic into the heart of Urca is the only street to have suffered significant redevelopment, but even then at a low level and very little since the 1960s. It is much used by filmmakers and ' novela' producers looking for period settings. The casino flourished and was a fixture of Rio's social scene in

136-399: A minor role in the history of astrophysics . Two scientists in the casino, discussing a model explaining neutrino emission patterns in the cooling of stars, called it after the casino when they noticed how rapidly money, like energy pulsing from a dying star, disappeared from the roulette table. But astrophysics notwithstanding, the money ran out in the end. In 1946 a federal ban on casinos put

170-615: A period of 2 hours without the previous turmoil, although critics claimed that it denied the spirit of the New Year's tradition of a religious festival with fireworks by the sea. The following year Rod Stewart beat attendance records. Finally, the Tribute to Tom Jobim - with Gal Costa , Gilberto Gil , Caetano Veloso , Chico Buarque , and Paulinho da Viola - consolidated the shows at the Copacabana Réveillon . There

204-500: Is Roberto Carlos , who lives in a relatively modest penthouse apartment on the seafront and, devout Catholic as he is, can sometimes be caught singing in Urca's only church. Although Forte São João is a military base, visitors are allowed in on weekday afternoons if they say they want to visit the fort's museum, the 'Museu do Forte". The walls we can see today are a typical early seventeenth-century Portuguese fort, like many others around

238-515: Is a bairro (neighbourhood) located in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . It is most prominently known for its 4 km (2.5 miles) balneario beach, which is one of the most famous in the world. The district was originally called Sacopenapã (translated from the Tupi language , it means "the way of the socós ", the socós being a kind of bird) until

272-574: Is a 6-lane, 4 km avenue by the beachside, Nossa Senhora de Copacabana Avenue and Barata Ribeiro/Raul Pompéia Street both of which are 4 lanes and 3.5 km in length. Barata Ribeiro Street changes its name to Raul Pompéia Street after the Sá Freire Alvim Tunnel. Twenty-four streets intersect all three major arteries, and seven other streets intersect some of the three. The fireworks display in Rio de Janeiro to celebrate New Year's Eve

306-445: Is at the south end by Posto Seis and Fort Duque de Caxias, built in 1779, at the north end. Many hotels, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and residential buildings are located in the area. On Sundays and holidays, one side of Avenida Atlântica is closed to cars, giving residents and tourists more space for activities along the beach. Copacabana Beach plays host to millions of revellers during the annual New Year's Eve celebrations, and for

340-425: Is broadcast live on major Brazilian radio and television networks, including TV Globo . New Year's Eve has been celebrated on Copacabana beach since the 1950s when cults of African origin such as Candomblé and Umbanda gathered in small groups dressed in white for ritual celebrations. The first fireworks display occurred in 1976, sponsored by a hotel on the waterfront and this has been repeated ever since. In

374-750: Is in this region that the majority of the city's balneario beaches and hotels are located, as are the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon , much of the Tijuca National Park , the Sugarloaf Mountain , with its cable car , the Corcovado hill, where the statue of Christ the Redeemer stands, and other natural wonders and tourist attractions. It is the richest region of the city and is visited by thousands of tourists from different parts of

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408-453: Is one of the largest in the world, lasting 15 to 20 minutes. It is estimated that 2 million people go to Copacabana Beach to see the spectacle. The festival also includes a concert that extends throughout the night. The celebration has become one of the biggest tourist attractions of Rio de Janeiro, attracting visitors from all over Brazil as well as from different parts of the world, and the city hotels generally stay fully booked. The celebration

442-473: Is very evident. Photos of the area on the 1930s show lots divided up, a low sea wall, individual houses and the trees so characteristic of the area now mere saplings. It is perhaps second only to Santa Tereza as a carioca urban neighbourhood in its pleasantness, architectural unity and lack of the crass development which has scarred so much of the city. Part of this is explained by the neighborhood's insularity. The developers of Urca made their money by dividing up

476-482: The Chacrinha program, a variety program which ran on weekend afternoons from the 1960s to the 1980s, with an enormous national audience. A slot on Chacrinha for any musician, dancer, actor or starlet was a sign they had finally arrived. The ageing inhabitants of Urca were, however, never entirely at ease with the crowds of screaming teenagers who regularly invaded their tranquil streets chasing their idols. Many greeted

510-527: The 12th highest Human Development Index in Rio; the 2000 census put the HDI of Copacabana at 0.902. According to the IBGE , 160,000 people live in Copacabana and 44,000 or 27.5% of them are 60 years old or older. Copacabana covers an area of 5.220 km which gives the borough a population density of 20,400 people per km . Residential buildings eleven to thirteen stories high built next to each other dominate

544-399: The 1880s a development company was formed for the purpose, Urbanização Carioca, whose acronym Urca gave the neighbourhood its name. But, some historians contest this version, identifying the name Urca already stamped in 18th century maps. "Urca", in old Portuguese tradition, designates a small and large cargo ship. Legal wrangles over financing and land titles delayed work for a generation, but

578-406: The 1990s the city saw it as a great opportunity to promote the city and organized and expanded the event. An assessment made during the New Year's Eve 1992 highlighted the risks associated with increasing crowd numbers on Copacabana beach after the fireworks display. Since the 1993-94 event concerts have been held on the beach to retain the public. The result was a success with egress spaced out over

612-464: The Cassino da Urca out of business. The building was later acquired by TV Tupí, a pioneering Brazilian television station owned by Assis Chateaubriand, the first Brazilian media mogul. TV Tupi built a new frontage for the building onto the beach, increasing its internal space and turning the curved 1930s exterior into a plain right-angled building. The TV Tupi studio became best known as the location of

646-584: The Portuguese and their Indian allies in attacks organised from here, expelling them from the nearby Villegagnon Island (named after the French commander Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon ). The street now called Rua São Sebastião, in Urca, which leads from behind the fort to the Urca casino , was originally a trail from the Portuguese fort skirting the edge of the sea to the mainland along the peninsula that houses

680-591: The Sugar Loaf and a smaller hill, the Morro da Urca. Rua São Sebastião thus has some claim to be the oldest street in Rio. Building space in Rio is restricted by the city's geography, which offers formidable physical barriers to urban expansion. The notion of filling in part of the shallow bay around the Morro Vermelho and building a neighborhood on it was mooted periodically in the nineteenth century, and in

714-433: The borough. Houses and two-story buildings are rare. When Rio was the capital of Brazil, Copacabana was considered one of the best neighborhoods in the country. More than 40 different bus routes serve Copacabana, as do three subway Metro stations: Cantagalo , Siqueira Campos and Cardeal Arcoverde . Three major arteries parallel to each other cut across the entire borough: Avenida Atlântica (Atlantic Avenue), which

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748-422: The closure of the studios in the late 1980s with relief, but the abandonment of the cassino and its being left to rot until 2008 was unfortunately typical of the misgovernment and neglect which has blighted modern Rio. It is currently being renovated to serve as a design institute. Urca's long association with entertainment is reflected in the number of Brazilian musicians and artists who live there. The most famous

782-470: The country, with several original cannons. But the main attraction is the extraordinary location. The Sugar Loaf plunges down to the beach behind the fort, the Praia de Fora . A number of fine Art Deco buildings are next to the fort, notably a gymnasium built in 1932. The inevitable football field next to the gymnasium, with the Sugar Loaf behind one goal, the fort behind the other and the beach looking out across

816-597: The entrance to Guanabara bay parallel to one sideline, is arguably the most spectacularly located football pitch in the world. It was used as a training ground by the England squad in the 2014 World Cup, who predictably failed to draw any inspiration from it on their way to an ignominiously early elimination. Copacabana (Rio de Janeiro) Copacabana ( / ˌ k oʊ p ə k ə ˈ b æ n ə / KOH -pə-kə- BAN -ə , US also /- ˈ b ɑː n ə / -⁠ BAH -nə , Portuguese: [ˌkɔpakaˈbɐnɐ] )

850-650: The famous borough of Ipanema . The area served as one of the four "Olympic Zones" during the 2016 Summer Olympics . According to Riotur, the Tourism Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro, there are 63 hotels and 10 hostels in Copacabana. Copacabana beach, located at the Atlantic shore, stretches from Posto Dois (lifeguard watchtower Two) to Posto Seis (lifeguard watchtower Six). Leme is at Posto Um (lifeguard watchtower One). There are historic forts at both ends of Copacabana beach; Fort Copacabana, built in 1914,

884-526: The faux Spanish colonial style, so popular throughout the Americas in the 1930s and 1940s, but locally called Manuelino style (after the 16th-century Portuguese king Manuel I ) and mock Tudor houses cheerfully aping the English interwar suburbs, often painted with a very un-English flair and color. The seafront Avenida Luis Alves has a number of modest apartment buildings, most from the 1950s and 1960s, but to

918-489: The first three editions of the tournament, has been the official venue of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup . The Copacabana promenade is a pavement landscape in large scale (4 kilometres long). It was rebuilt in 1970 and has used a black and white Portuguese pavement design since its origin in the 1930s: a geometric wave. The Copacabana promenade was designed by Roberto Burle Marx . Copacabana has

952-402: The landfill began shortly after the conclusion of World War I and the first houses were built in 1922. The centrepiece of the new neighbourhood was a cassino, originally conceived as a competitor to the newly installed cassino in the luxury Copacabana Palace hotel, in those days a rather longer and more inconvenient haul from downtown Rio. The neighbourhood's origin as a 1920s urban development

986-519: The mid-18th century. It was renamed after the construction of a chapel holding a replica of the Virgen de Copacabana , the patron saint of Bolivia . Copacabana begins at Princesa Isabel Avenue and ends at Posto Seis (lifeguard watchtower Six). Beyond Copacabana, there are two small beaches: one, inside Fort Copacabana and the other, right after it: Diabo ("Devil") Beach. Arpoador beach, where surfers go after its perfect waves, comes next, followed by

1020-585: The neighborhood dates from the 1920s, parts of it are much older. What is now called the Forte São João , a military base at the foot of the Sugarloaf Mountain , is where the first Portuguese settlement in Rio was founded by Estácio de Sá on March 1, 1565. The French had arrived 12 years earlier and founded a settlement, called France Antarctique , close to what is now Flamengo and Gloria districts, in downtown Rio. The French, riven by internal disputes between Catholics and Protestants, were massacred by

1054-407: The neighbourhood into lots and selling them to small investors, many of them recent European immigrants, especially Portuguese, of relatively modest means – the richer middle class headed for the more glamorous neighbourhoods of Copacabana and Leme , the other side of Praia Vermelha. The heavy military presence around Urca in the coup-prone 1920s was also a disincentive for those with money to afford

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1088-432: The prewar and immediate postwar period. Urca's most famous resident, Carmen Miranda , was discovered by a Hollywood producer visiting the casino in 1938, where she was a singer. She rented a small house on Rua São Sebastião, on the left walking up from the casino, where a plaque on the wall, the only one in Rio commemorating a famous person's house, remembers the " pequena notável ", the "little wonder". The casino also played

1122-511: The world throughout the year. 22°58′27″S 43°11′58″W  /  22.974199°S 43.199444°W  / -22.974199; -43.199444  ( South Zone ) This Rio de Janeiro state , Brazil location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Urca Urca is a traditional and wealthy residential neighborhood with nearly 7,000 inhabitants (2000 census ) in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . Although most of

1156-418: Was a need to transform the fireworks display in a show of the same quality. The fireworks display was created by entrepreneurs Ricardo Amaral and Marius. From the previous 8–10 minutes the time was extended to 20 minutes and the quality and diversity of the fireworks was improved. A technical problem in fireworks 2000 required the use of ferries from New Year's Eve 2001–02. New Year's Eve has begun to compete with

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