If carnival in Brazil is synonymous with liberation, then the show starting this Sunday in Rio de Janeiro will be its climax.
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A hundred thousand souls will surrender in sambadrome to music and fantasy, in the first edition with no restrictions on pandemic.
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For two nights, the traditional “escolas” samba will electrify the famous Rio de Janeiro site as they parade in their exotic costumes. They promise to do it even if it pours, as some announce weather forecast.
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Recent essays in sambadromeThe 700-meter track, surrounded by stands with a capacity of 70,000, was carried out in torrential rains that caused flooding and even damaged some of the floats.
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Nothing stops Brazilians from celebrating their favorite national holidaybefore which the year does not begin.
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Rio will celebrate “life and democracy,” the mayor said Friday. Eduardo Paezsymbolically handing over the keys to the city to the character of King Momo, the sweet “monarch” who “rules” for four days of fun.
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The mayor’s office estimates that the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, including the street carnival, which was again fully celebrated in urban neighborhoods for the first time in three years, will attract a total of five million people.
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In that sambadrome12 “escolas” will parade from Sunday to Monday: each will have several thousand people who will advance in unison, brandishing their every muscle.
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They will have 60 to 70 minutes to convince the jury that their “intricacy”, the theme they choose each year, is the best in terms of lyrics, percussion, costumes, floats and the production as a whole.
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Most of Brazilian are considered “natural-born party-goers” during carnivalThis is stated in the study of the technology data platform Navegg, which is referred to by the Globo newspaper.
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His sample concluded that 6.6 million do not miss it, although they are followed by those who prefer to stay at home (5.7 million), ahead of those who go to the beach or travel on these holidays.
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“Brazil did not invent the carnival, but brazilian people became so attached to the party (…) that it was the other way around: carnival invented a possible and original country,” wrote Brazilian historian Luis Antonio Simas on Twitter.
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The atmosphere of fun that has swept the whole country after a three-year hangover will last until noon on Ash Wednesday.
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Mass troupes, gatherings on beaches and squares, and parades at sambadromes in different cities ensure the continuity of the Brazilian carnival from Saturday, which returned on Friday after a three-year hiatus.
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Carioca comparsa (Rio de Janeiro) has drawn 1.8 million people in some of its editions and competes with El Salvador’s Carnival and Recife’s Galo da Madrugada, which already held a Guinness record for the public in 1994 and 1995, the title of the largest carnival in the country.
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In Sao Paulo, the largest metropolis of the country and the street carnival is gaining momentum
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