It is a six-day party where crowds follow the trios elétricos through the city streets, dancing and singing. The northeastern cities of Recife, Olinda, Salvador, and Porto Seguro have organized groups parading through streets, and public interacts directly with them. Those official parades are meant to be watched by the public, while minor parades ( blocos) allowing public participation can be found in other cities, like Belo Horizonte, also in the southeastern region. In the southeastern cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Vitória, huge organized parades are led by samba schools. Rhythm, participation, and costumes vary from one region of Brazil to another. Historically its origins can be traced to the Portuguese Age of Discoveries when their caravels passed regularly through Madeira island, a territory which already celebrated emphatically its carnival season, and where they were loaded with goods but also people and their ludic and cultural expressions. Rio de Janeiro's carnival alone drew 4.9 million people in 2011, with 400,000 being foreigners. Except for industrial production, retail establishments such as malls, and carnival-related businesses, the country unifies completely for almost a week and festivities are intense, day and night, mainly in coastal cities. During Lent, Roman Catholics and some other Christians traditionally abstained from the consumption of meat and poultry, hence the term " carnival", from carnelevare, "to remove (literally, "raise") meat." Ĭarnival is the most popular holiday in Brazil and has become an event of huge proportions.
The Carnival of Brazil ( Portuguese: Carnaval do Brasil, IPA: ) is an annual festival held the Friday afternoon before Ash Wednesday at noon, which marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter.
Ĭelebration prior to fasting season of Lent.įriday before Ash Wednesday (51 days to Easter)Īsh Wednesday midday (46 days before Easter)Īfternoon, February 17 – midday, February 22Ĭarnival, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, Lent Rio's carnaval is the largest in the world according to Guinness World Records. Devla Imperatrix Queen of Carnaval in Rio De Janeiro.
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