Qualla: Grande Hotel de Goiânia https://qualla.com/grande-hotel-de-goiania en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:25:05 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/c/grande-hotel-de-goiania-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Grande Hotel de Goiânia https://qualla.com/grande-hotel-de-goiania Grande Hotel de Goiânia: Introduction https://qualla.com/grande-hotel-de-goiania/ Photo credit Amanda Martins Sousa, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1937 Claude Lévi-Strauss came up onto Brazil's central plateau and found what he described as endless flatlands, “half dead ground, half battlefield,” staked out with telegraph poles and surveyors' markers. A hundred or so brand-new houses stood scattered at the four corners of the horizon. “The biggest of these was the hotel,” he wrote in Tristes Tropiques, “a square box of cement, with the look of an air-terminus or a miniature fort.” Goiânia had exactly one hotel that year. The French anthropologist was writing about the Grande Hotel, which had opened its doors on 23 January, and he meant none of it kindly.

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/c/grande-hotel-de-goiania-wp/6vhc-grande-hotel-de-goi-nia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Grande Hotel de Goiânia: A Bastion of Civilization, Literally https://qualla.com/grande-hotel-de-goiania/ Photo credit Amanda Martins Sousa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lévi-Strauss called the building “the bastion of civilization” and then made clear how literally he intended the phrase. Goiânia had not grown; it had been decreed. For two centuries the state of Goiás governed itself from a sleepy colonial town of stucco porticos and pebble-pave...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/c/grande-hotel-de-goiania-wp/6vhc-grande-hotel-de-goi-nia-a-bastion-of-civilization-literally.mp3 0:06 2 full Grande Hotel de Goiânia: Sixty Rooms and Hot Water https://qualla.com/grande-hotel-de-goiania/ Photo credit Amanda Martins Sousa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Construction ran from 1935 to July 1936, and the hotel opened the following January - the third building finished in the new city. Three floors, sixty rooms, four luxury apartments, garages, 2,178 square metres of floor. Listed proudly among the amenities: bathrooms served by bot...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/c/grande-hotel-de-goiania-wp/6vhc-grande-hotel-de-goi-nia-sixty-rooms-and-hot-water.mp3 0:06 3 full Grande Hotel de Goiânia: Where the New City Learned to Dance https://qualla.com/grande-hotel-de-goiania/ Photo credit Amanda Martins Sousa, CC BY-SA 4.0. The restaurant-bar accomplished what the master plan could not: it made the place sociable. Goianiense society met there, and the hotel hosted the city's first carnival balls, the Police Military Band trading sets with the Jazz Band Imperial. On Saturdays the leaseholder, Maria d...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/c/grande-hotel-de-goiania-wp/6vhc-grande-hotel-de-goi-nia-where-the-new-city-learned-to-dance.mp3 0:06 4 full Grande Hotel de Goiânia: Listed Three Times, Empty Anyway https://qualla.com/grande-hotel-de-goiania/ Photo credit Amanda Martins Sousa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Recognition arrived in layers. The municipality listed the building as heritage in 1991, the state followed in 1998, and on 18 November 2003 IPHAN, the national heritage institute, folded it into the protected Art Deco architectural and urban ensemble of Goiânia - one of the larg...

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