You will pass the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro? Learn everything about it.
Carnival is the main popular feast of Brazil, being the carnival in Rio de Janeiro the richest and most known, attracting thousands of national and foreign tourists. All years in Carnival time, the city of Rio de Janeiro breathes during five days an enviable air of joy. The cariocas forget problems and obligations and earn the giant dance show and magic.
The peak of the feast is the parade of the special group in the Marques De Sapucaã, where various Samba Schools are vying for the title of champion of the Carnival. Samba, vivid colors, fantasies breathtaking skyline and beautiful women are the main ingredients of this dispute grandiose.
Although initiated "officially" on Friday fat, street Carnival Carioca already begins in November when the samba schools of the city pass to make so-called "technical tests" in the Sambódromo. Real parades where singing, developments and the pace are the main elements, these events have attracted the population of the city and the surrounding area that fills the bleachers, twists and sing with her schools. A real popular feast that captures increasingly interest tourists eager to attend and participate in a carnival essentially popular.
The date of the Carnival varies from year to year in the light of Easter. Usually the revelry occurs between the end of the month of February and the first days of March. The official start of the Carnival is always on a Saturday and the conclusion at noon on the following Wednesday, called "Ash Wednesday". However many person already start the festivities on Friday. It says very in Brazil that the year officially only starts after the carnival.
During most of the 1990s, the carnival was reduced the samba school parades and large dances in closed clubs. The known and traditional "street carnival", in which the people play spontaneously without paying entry, outside abandoned. In recent years, however, this way of celebrating is being retrieved.
Women with body painting dancing.
The Carnival has several possible origins, which lead us to the thousands of years before Christ. The word carnival may have its origin in the Latin expression "carrum novalis", used by the Romans to open its festivities. Or perhaps in the word "carnelevale", which means "goodbye to flesh," in the Milanese dialect, a reference to the beginning of the Christian Lent.