"The standard locations for luxury hotels in Rio are Copacabana and Ipanema, but it’s safe to say that Vila Santa Teresa is anything but standard. This is no waterfront tower but a modernist mansion occupying what might be the last private estate within Rio’s city limits, high on a hilltop in the elevated Santa Teresa neighborhood, with appropriately jaw-dropping views, from Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf Mountain down to the waters of Guanabara Bay." - Tablet Hotels