Brazil is the land of festivals! Whether it's celebration, cuisine, culture, or dressing up for street fun, Brazilians are the docks when it comes to how to throw a party! Indeed, festivals in Brazil are held all year round and are known all over the world. It would be logical to consider that the carnival is the prerogative of Rio de Janeiro alone. But the thing is, it's not! The whole country participates in the carnival. Both homeless people and dogs walk in the streets in carnival costumes.
Brazilian Carnival
Carnaval do Brasil - world famous tour of Brazilian popular culture. This is an annual festival that takes place in many cities in Brazil 40 days before Easter. Carnival is not just a colorful procession with dances and drums, it is the Indian holiday of colors Holi, and the gay parade, and the Bavarian Oktoberfest, and the cowboy festival, and the Amazonian Indian carnival.
Carnival is so important forBrazilians that the year is divided into two parts: before and after the carnival … After the New Year, everyone in Brazil will prepare for the carnival. Nothing special happens in January and February. For Brazilians, 2019 will start after carnival!
Carnival. Rio de Janeiro
The most famous festival in Brazil is the carnival in Rio de Janeiro, which is held annually before Lent for five days. It is visited by more than 2 million people! As noted above, the whole of Brazil participates in the carnival: both small villages and cities. Everyone can participate in carnival activities. To make the holiday more fun, men wear women's clothes, and women dress in a set of sequins and feathers. Here, at the festival in Brazil (photo below), you can put aside everyday worries and problems and escape into a fantasy world for a few days, enjoy samba.
Carnival processions begin during Easter, from the Friday to the Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday. Huge parades are a demonstration of complex costumes, a procession of drummers and dancers through the streets of the city. Every year the parades become livelier thanks to the samba school at the festival in Brazil.
Since 1984, when the Sambodrome was built, there have been presentations of different schools of bright dance. The non-stop party is filled with bright colors, samba music and elaborate costumes. Countless musical genres, including samba and passion fruit, accompany the holiday. On the streets during the carnival, regular food, drink and fun are a must!
Tourists,Those caught in the carnival are invited to join in the fun: free open-air concerts and masquerade balls are held throughout the city. With Samba as the soundtrack and a caipirinhas in hand (made with lime juice, sugar, ice and porridge), you can't help but feel the party spirit!
Festa do Peao
Impressive, attracting a large number of tourists and locals alike is Festa do Peão, which means "Cowboy Festival" in English and has been a popular Brazilian festival for 64 years. Festivals held across the country in places like Maraba, Uberaba and Barretos usually feature a series of rodeo bulls and horses accompanied by country music.
Certainly, the biggest and most famous cowboy festival - Festa do Peao is held in the state of Barretos in São Paulo. The time of its holding is from 18 to 28 August. It coincides with the anniversary of the first recorded festival in 1955. Held in a huge park with a stadium large enough to hold 35,000 spectators. The highlight of the festival is the rodeo show.
Oktoberfest
One of the largest celebrations of German culture, Oktoberfest, turns the Brazilian city of Blumenau into a small copy of Munich. Once, it was a German colony founded in 1850. Brazilian Germans, mostly descendants of the colonists, keep their cultural heritage. Currently, more than a million tourists flock to Santa Catarina city center to enjoy German and Brazilian cuisine, music andculture. And just relax.
One of the best places to relax during the October festival in Brazil is the beach paradise of Balneario, from where you can easily get to Blumenau by public transport. If you happen to be in Blumenau at this time, put on your brightest costumes, grab your party hats, and join the reveler groups for one of the most exciting events.
Yemanji Celebration
Celebrating Yemanja, paying tribute to the goddess of the sea. This beautiful event takes place in Salvador, a city also called the "Happiness Capital" of Brazil. The festival is held at the beginning of February each year, with locals throwing gifts into the sea, be it flowers, perfumes or jewelry!
The goddess of s alt water Yemanzhu is always represented by women in blue flowing clothes with long hair. Millions of people celebrate Yemanya on February 2, or the Catholic holiday of Our Lady of the Sailors' Day. But in Rio, the Yemanje festival in Brazil takes place in the days leading up to the New Year, when practitioners of Umbanda and Candomblé honor the goddess.
The biggest celebration takes place along Praia Vermelha, culminating in a festive evening on the beach with music, parties and food. Arriving in El Salvador before the start of the holiday, you can see the most important religious ceremony in the city: at the end of January, hundreds of women in traditional costumes come to wash the steps of the Bonfim church.
Cirio de Nazaré
On the second SundayOctober each year, one of Brazil's greatest religious festivals is held along the Amazon River, in the beautiful city of Para Belém. Known as Cirio de Nazare, this festival in Brazil revolves around the statue of Our Lady of Nazareth, which is believed to have performed miracles when found and brought home by a farmer named Placido José de Souza.
It is said that the statue, after being brought to Belem, will return to its home in Ikorarasi of its own accord. Today, the statue does not travel by itself: it is carried from the Catedral da Sé to the basilica in Icoarachi, accompanied by hundreds of colorful boats filled with singing, dancing crowds.
Festival of underwear
Every year on January 16, the tattoo festival takes place in Brazil. Artists from all over the world come here. In a week during the festival, the masters presented more than 200 stands with samples of various tattoos in 2019.
This is one of the main goals of Tattoo Week Rio: to promote cultural exchange between artists and the public. Usually, the event venue includes a reserved area for workshops, 2,000 parking spaces, a food plaza, a playground, a tattoo theater, exhibitions, and many other attractions. Numerous competitions are held at the festival, among which the most spectacular "Miss Tatu".
Indian festival in Brazil
When it comes to this country, the first thing that comes to mind is the carnival, because itmain event. Brazil has several carnivals throughout the year. Recently, another one has become known - May Fight Bumba. It takes place on the Amazon like a samba battle in Rio. Boi Mei Bumba carnival time: end of June - second week of August.
May Fight Bumba takes place at a bumbadrome built on the principle of a sambadrome. Of course, the scale of carnivals in Rio and Parintins is incomparable. The history of the Boy Mei Bumba festival is connected with the culture and history of the Amazon Indians and a certain style of Brazilian music. Simple and beautiful.
The fireworks of passion raging at the carnivals of Brazil burns the complexes and negativity of the participants in parades and processions. Where, if not at a holiday in Rio, get a huge boost of energy and fun.
