at a glance

rio de janeiro's réveillon fireworks display in copacabana is one of the longest and most impressive the world has to offer, and as a result the show attracts massive crowds each year - over two million people, mostly dressed in white, gather along copacabana beach to take part in the celebrations.

a huge amount of time, money, and effort is invested in the preparation of the spectacle, which takes place just off the shore of copacabana beach, with the main musical stage set up just across the landmark copacabana palace hotel.

inaugurated in 1923, the belmont copacabana palace hotel is rio de janeiro's most famous hotel. built between 1919 and 1923, the copacabana palace was the very fist luxury hotel in rio de janeiro, originally aimed at receiving the crowds that were anticipated for the great exposition in occasion of the centenary of the independence of brazil of 1922.