Leme's original beachfront grand hotel, open on Avenida Atlântica since 1964.
The 17-story building at Avenida Atlântica 656 sits on the quiet middle stretch of Leme beach, a neighborhood with one road in and out and none of Copacabana's through-traffic. It opened in 1964 as the Leme Palace, the neighborhood's first big beachfront hotel, and ran for decades under the Othon group as the Leme Othon Palace.
The building holds 195 rooms, most facing the water, and was fully renovated in 2005 before the Windsor chain acquired it and rebranded it the Windsor Leme. Its presence defines the low-key character of the Leme waterfront: one substantial hotel on a strip that is otherwise residential.
Address: Av. Atlântica 656, Leme, Rio de Janeiro
The Leme Palace went up in 1964, during the verticalization wave that reshaped Leme's beachfront in the 1950s and 60s. For years it was the address for visitors who wanted the Copacabana crescent without the Copacabana crowds.
After a long run in the Othon family of hotels, the building passed to the Windsor group, which operates it today as the Windsor Leme — still the only major hotel tower on this stretch of Avenida Atlântica until the ex-Méridien at the Princesa Isabel corner.
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Big beachfront plates on Leme's quiet end of the Atlântica.
Leme's black monolith — the tallest tower on the beach, famous for its New Year's Eve fireworks waterfall.
Copacabana's most storied address, beside the Copacabana Palace
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