Rio Carnival
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The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a festival held every year before Lent; it is considered the biggest celebration of Carnival in the world, with two million people per day on the streets. The first C
A float at Rio Carnival, 2014
Parade of Mangueira, one of the most traditional samba schools in the Rio Carnival
A typical performer of Samba dance
Drum Queen
Samba school
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A samba school is a dancing, marching, and drumming club. They practice and often perform in a huge square-compounds and are devoted to practicing and exhibiting samba, an Afro-Brazilian dance and dru
Rio Carnival
…The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723. The typical Rio Carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats, and adornments from numerous samba schools which are located in Rio (more than 200 approximately, divided into five leagues/divisions). A samba school is composed of a collaboration of local…
Portela samba school, Rio de Janeiro, 2019. Photo: Guy Veloso
Front commission dressed as codfish in the parade of Imperatriz Leopoldinense (2007)