View from top of Half-way mountain with Copacabana beach
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View from top of Half-way mountain with Copacabana beach |
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1931 |
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H Skellington |
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Fronted by beach and backed by steep hills, Copacabana is for the greater part no more than 4 blocks wide. Crammed into this narrow strip of land are 25,000 people per sq mile, one of the highest population densities in the world. Copacabana is the centre of Brazil's tourism. With the building of the grand luxury resort hotels, the Gloria in 1922 and the Copacabana Palace in 1924, Rio became a hot spot for Hollywood celebrities and international high society during the 1950s. |
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