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The Grande Hotel da Beira was once the largest and most luxurious hotel on the African continent. Located on Mateus Sansão Muthemba Avenue, the hotel opened in 1955. Soon after opening, the hotel ...
The Grande Hotel in Mozambique's coastal city of Beira is home to 3,500 squatters. Photojournalist Fellipe Abreu visited the building once dubbed the "Pride of Africa".
When Spanish photographer Héctor Mediavilla first walked into the remains of the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique, he says he was immediately struck by the ghost-like quality of the building ...
The Grande Hotel in Mozambique's coastal city of Beira is home to 3,500 squatters. Photojournalist Fellipe Abreu visited the building once dubbed the "Pride of Africa".
In the sprawling slum of the once glorious Grande Hotel in Mozambique's city of Beira, around 4,000 people living in squalor hope that this month's election will bring change to their hard lives.
In the sprawling slum of the once glorious Grande Hotel in Mozambique’s city of Beira, around 4,000 people living in squalor hope that this month’s election will bring a change to their hard ...
Limbo could be the motto of the Grande Hotel. When it opened in 1954, the modernist building was meant to be the most opulent tourist destination on the continent.
Mozambique was celebrating more than just the festive season this past month. That is because Maputo's famous Grande Dame, the Polana Serena Hotel, a historic water-front landmark in Mozambique's ...
The life story of the once fabulously opulent Grande Hotel, which once stood majestically overlooking the ocean in Beira in Mozambique, makes for fascinating viewing in Lotte Stoops absorbing ...
The Grande Hotel in Mozambique's coastal city of Beira is home to 3,500 squatters. Photojournalist Fellipe Abreu visited the building once dubbed the "Pride of Africa".