Copacabana Beach plays host to millions of revellers during the annual New Year's Eve celebrations and, in most years, has been the official venue of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

As the Hedda Beeby era has evolved the Revel Horwood / Travis collaboration has gone from strength to strength with successful productions of " Martin Guerre " " Spend Spend Spend " and " Copacabana ".

The town has a large 16th-century shrine, the Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana.

Copacabana has therefore been a Sacred place even before the Spanish conquest.

During the wars of independence, the Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana was despoiled of most of its rich ornaments and gifts, and ruthless plundering by faithless custodians in the course of political disturbances has further contributed to impoverish it.

It does not have the hustle and bustle of bohemic Lapa, Copacabana, Leblon, and Ipanema, but there has been an increase in the number of restaurants, pizzerias, bars, private schools and colleges.

Projects in construction or in design include: the Broad Art Museum in Los Angeles ; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley ; the Museum of Image & Sound on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro ; the new Stanford University Art & Art History Building ; The Columbia Business School ; the Columbia University Medical Center ; the Culture Shed and Tower D Residential Tower in the Hudson Yards Development in New York City ; and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Seasonal Inflatable Pavilion on the National Mall in Washington D. C.

From the peak's platform the panoramic view includes downtown Rio, Sugarloaf Mountain, the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas ( lake ), Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, Estádio do Maracanã ( Maracanã Stadium ), and several of Rio's favelas.

Copacabana ( or, rarely and in other Brazilian dialects ) is a bairro ( neighbourhood ) located in the Zona Sul ( southern zone ) of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

According to Riotur, the Tourism Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro, there are 63 hotels and 10 hostels in Copacabana.

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* February 2009: for the Year of France in Brazil, and as part of the Rio Carnival, the Moulin Rouge is produced on the mythical Copacabana beach.

On July 7, 2007, Kravitz performed at the Brazilian leg of Live Earth in Rio de Janeiro, making him one of three major international rock stars to perform two huge free concerts at the world-famous Copacabana Beach along with Macy Gray and the Rolling Stones.

The Pablo contract resulted in a total of seven albums: a second and equally wondrous Brazilian record, " Copacabana ", again recorded in Rio ( 1979 ), How Long Has This Been Going On?

There is also a street named after him in the district of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

At least 3 of them are now on display at the Fort Copacabana Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

However, unlike most beaches, Marina is a sandy urban beach similar to the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, helping it earn the title.

The Copacabana Fort garrison in 1922What became known as the tenente movement came to public notice on 5 July 1922 when a group of young Brazilian Army officers began a rebellion against the Old Republic at Fort Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro.

6 July 1922: The ' 18 of the Copacabana Fort revolt ' on their way to confront army loyalistsTheir early-morning rebellion was taken up by a garrison in São Paulo but not by others ; only " scattered units around Rio de Janeiro revolted: the Escola Militar, some elements of the First Infantry Regiment and the Battalion of Engineers, and the garrisons of Forts Copacabana and Vigia.

* July 6 – The first use of naval aircraft in combat in Latin America takes place in Brazil during the first Tenente revolt when two Brazilian Navy aircraft bomb the rebellious Fort Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro.

Footvolley was created in Brazil, by Octavio de Moraes, in 1965 in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach as a means for football players to be able to touch the ball without violating the formal football ban at the time.

The UK stage musical adaptation, also known as Barry Manilow's Copacabana: A New Musical Comedy, had its American premiere at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera ( Pittsburgh CLO ) in 2000 followed by a run as part of the Dallas Summer Musical season.

* An Ad-Hoc band was put together to play " Copacabana " on the NBC special Dick Clark and a Cast of 1000's airing 9 / 6 / 1978.

The Portuguese pavement wave pattern at Copacabana beach

Copacabana at dusk

Copacabana begins at Princesa Isabel Avenue and ends at Posto Seis ( lifeguard watchtower Six ).

There are historic forts at both ends of Copacabana beach ; Fort Copacabana, built in 1914, is at the south end by Posto Seis and Fort Duque de Caxias, built in 1779, at the north end.

Within a year of their first act together, they went from earning $ 150-175 a week each at one club to $ 30, 000. 00 a week as a team at The Copacabana.

This success saw Darin set the all-time attendance record at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City.

This success led to a series of well-paying engagements on the Eastern seaboard, culminating in a triumphant run at New York's Copacabana.

In the summer of 1968, the group joined The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops and Marvin Gaye in performing at the Copacabana though much like albums from the Four Tops and Gaye, a live album of their performance there was shelved indefinitely.

She had been a dancer at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City.

Antonio Carlos Jobim and other composers helped further develop this fusion of jazz harmonies and a smoother, often slower, samba beat, which developed at the beach neighborhoods of Ipanema and, later, the Copacabana nightclubs.

Throughout the late 1960s, Clark toured in concerts in the States, and she often appeared in supper clubs such as the Copacabana in New York City, the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, and the Empire Room at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where she consistently broke house attendance records.

In 1966, just prior to opening at the Copacabana supper club in New York City, Ballard complained of a sore throat and insisted that Ross sing the song.

In, a group of Yankees met at the famous Copacabana nightclub to celebrate Martin's 29th birthday ; the party ultimately erupted into a much publicized brawl when Martin, Hank Bauer, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra challenged a few drunks who were hurling racial slurs at performer Sammy Davis, Jr. A month later, general manager George Weiss — believing Martin's nightlife was a bad influence on teammates Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle — exiled him to Kansas City.