An 1850s coffee-farm mansion working today as one of Brazil's best-rated hotels.
On Rua Almirante Alexandrino, the main spine of upper Santa Teresa, this is a working boutique hotel — Santa Teresa Hotel RJ, under Accor's MGallery flag — built into a coffee-farm mansion dating to around 1850. The property covers roughly 4,000 m² with 44 rooms, a pool terrace and restaurant, decorated with Brazilian materials and work by local artists.
It matters to the neighborhood beyond tourism: the casarão is one of the largest intact reminders that Santa Teresa's hillsides were coffee land before they were a residential district, and its restoration helped anchor the bairro's revival as a hospitality and arts quarter.
Address: Rua Almirante Alexandrino 660, Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro
The main house went up in the mid-19th century as the seat of a hillside coffee fazenda, when coffee was still grown inside what is now the city. As the plantations moved to the Paraíba valley, Santa Teresa subdivided into residential estates and the casarão passed through private hands for over a century.
It was converted into a luxury hotel in the 2000s, keeping the thick-walled farmhouse structure, and has since been repeatedly ranked among the best hotels in Brazil, including recognition from the Michelin Guide hotel selection.
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