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Hotel Imperial: entre restos e encenações

2021; University of Minho; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21814/vista.3327

2184-1284

Dúnya Pinto Azevedo,

Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

Located on Rua Guaicurus, in the center of Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais (Brazil), the building we now know as Hotel Imperial was built in the 1920s to function as a sanatorium -a place for the treatment of contagious diseases.In the 1940s, under Juscelino Kubistchek's administration, it was transformed into a hotel, and rebuilt in art deco style.At the time, the hotels in the region were still primarily used to house families coming from other cities and other states.Later the apartments were adapted to serve as prostitution premises and, at present, the building, owned by the Santa Casa of Belo Horizonte, has been closed for more than 10 years and keeps the original title of "Hotel".The play Rua das Camélias, from Belo Horizonte, premiered in this location in November 2016 recreating the prostitution scene.