Praia de Copacabana curves for about four kilometres along Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone, between Leme and Copacabana Fort, with Avenida Atlântica tracing the waterfront. The beach is both a major public gathering place and an everyday arena for swimming, football, volleyball, vendors and kiosk life. Its most recognizable foreground is the black-and-white wave mosaic of the promenade, whose Portuguese paving pattern was expanded into a bold landscape design by Roberto Burle Marx. Wide views take in the arc of pale sand, dense ranks of high-rises and the headlands framing the bay, while Sugarloaf Mountain rises beyond Leme. Copacabana is especially associated with Rio’s New Year celebrations, when vast white-clad crowds gather along the shore for fireworks over the Atlantic.
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