Hotel Santa Teresa

After three years of restoration and repair, the Hotel Santa Teresa, the old Guimarães Ranch, located at the heart of the historic Santa Teresa District and one of the few hotels under government trust for historic preservation of the City of Rio de Janeiro, reopens its doors.

With a TROPICAL DESIGN, using natural materials, offers its visitors a plunge into the culture and origins of Brazil. The cotton, the linen, the coconut fiber, the rush, the tropical woods, the lime stones, the Portuguese tiles and the burnt cement evoke the natural Brazil and the colonial spirit of the golden ages of coffee, cocoa bean and sugar cane. In all settings of the hotel, the art of the native tribes from the Amazonas and Pará states, the sacred art of Rio de Janeiro’s baroque, the refined handicraft from the state of Minas Gerais and the northeast region, celebrates all five regions of a diverse and intense Brazil.

The Hotel Santa Teresa is located in the heart of the historic and cultural neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. Santa Teresa is the only picturesque and artistic quarter of Rio, with various old mansions from the 18th and 19th century, museums of art and history, plastic artists and painters’ ateliers. With a direct and fast access to all the main touristic points of interest from Rio de Janeiro, such as the Christ Redeemer, the Sugar Loaf, the Copacabana and Ipanema Beaches, the hotel is strategically located next to the Centro – business and financial city center –, and just up Lapa, the sophisticated nightlife of Rio de Janeiro.

The Hotel Santa Teresa has as its vocation the promotion of the quality of life of the children and teenagers of some of the underprivileged communities of the city.