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Grande Hotel da Beira - Moçambique - Depois

African luxury hotel now massive squat

David Pescovitz

Seen above is the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique, a 50-year-old luxury hotel that is currently booked solid, by several thousand squatters who live there without electricity or running water. JG Ballard would have had a field day with this one – a large self-organizing community of refugees living in what was once a palace of excess. Belgian filmmaker Lotte Stoops recently completed a documentary about this amazing self-organizing community of refugees living in what was once a palace of excess.

Grande Hotel da Beira - Moçambique - Antes

"Tourists come from England, Germany and Austria"

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SOL

Olhamos para o Sol e não vemos nada.

Ficamos cegos, de tanto ver!