FEBRUARY CARNIVAL 2014

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RIO DE JANEIRO CARNIVAL 2014

The Rio Carnival 2014 is quickly approaching! It will take place this year from February 28 to March 4.
Don’t worry if you can’t afford the air fare or the time off work, we’re going to inform you about what’s going on in the capital this year.



With four days of street parties, music and dancing all over Brazil. This festival, which dates back to 1823, is the biggest in the world.

One of the most important events in the carnival is the Samba Parade.

The Rio Samba parade is very different from all other street parades held at other places in the world. It started as street festivities with groups of people parading through the street playing music and dancing. 





The parades developed into something special, a big competition between the samba schools. Now, the parade is one of the mains purposes of the carnival. Each school chooses a theme to try and represent in their entry.

The samba schools also work to build the best customers, lyrics, aesthetics to represent their themes, and to include the best music they can from their bands.

After the exhibitions, the 6 best samba schools are chosen to perform as they are the champions of the parade.

                                       
Every day open-air dances take place throughout the city. Apart from these organized street dances, people meet in bars, booze away and have loads of fun.

The most traditional, Cordão da Bola Preta, will attract hundreds of thousands of people, but also smaller gatherings can shut down the streets in neighborhoods as Copacabana.



VENICE CARNIVAL 2014

The Venice Carnival takes place this year from February 15 to March 4.

Is one of the most magical celebrations in the world, with a lot of masked parties, it’s a reinvention of a great tradition of the city in the past.

                                   

The most acclaimed event is the official opening of the Carnival at St. Mark’s Square, which is the centre of the festivities. “The flight of the Angel” is an angel flies on a steel cable above the crowd to the string music of Vivaldi. Once it is over, the crowd disperses into the back alleys and canals to wander by foot and gondola.

                                     

Theater is also an essential element of the Venice Carnival, performing shows from streets to the Gran Teatro in St. Mark’s Square.

To understand the importance of the Carnival in the city, you have to understand the importance of the mask. The physical transformation allow citizens to behave wildly without fear of the social consequence. Masks also allow members from all classes of society to party together under anonymity.

The end of the Carnival is celebrated with a massive fireworks show at midnight. 



By Thecityrooms 





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