Victor Hugo

Posted Monday, May 15, 2023

11mo

ISTJ

Gemini

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE GÁVEA HOTEL TOURIST KNOWN IN RIO AS THE GHOST HOTEL?

After the company responsible for the construction fell out of favor, the skeleton became a tourist attraction. The Gávea Tourist Hotel began to be built in 1953, by the architect Décio da Silva Pacheco, with the intention of being a luxury building. Located on Estrada da Canoa, in São Conrado, in Rio de Janeiro, the hotel would have 30 thousand square meters. In 1965, while the works continued, a New Year's Eve party took place in the grandiose building, which ended up hosting a nightclub called Sky Terrace for a few years on the ground floor. However, in 1972, the developer California Investimentos interrupted construction and, five years later, ended up declaring bankruptcy, leaving the building forever abandoned. With the work stopped and without any supervision, all the materials that remained, including the elevators that came from Switzerland and were ready to be installed ended up being stolen. Since the 1980s, the Gávea Tourist Hotel has been used as a shelter for homeless people, a hiding place for bandits who usually keep stolen army weapons there. In addition, the hotel is also widely used as a place for photos, music videos and rituals / invocations practiced mainly by young people in search of adventure. The construction has become a skeleton, a kind of alternative tourist spot for visitors to Rio de Janeiro who, when climbing the 272 steps and 16 floors, are presented with a beautiful view of the sea of ​​São Conrado and Pedra da Gávea. The current owner of the Gávea Tourist Hotel is the businessman Jamil Elias Suaiden, who wanted to destroy the building and, in its place, build another luxurious four-star hotel, this time with approximately 600 rooms in addition to a convention center for guests. however, his plan was impeded by the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (Iphan) which did not authorize the building to be altered, as it is located within the Tijuca Forest, a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve. Since then, the construction has remained abandoned and open for visitation without any inspection by any body of the government of Rio de Janeiro or contracted by the owner himself.