On our website you`ll find all information about Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Here you'll find all 2016 Rio Carnival events, venues, Rio Carnival's history, 2016 Rio Carnival tickets, costumes for the 2016 Samba Parade and Sambodromo information, accomplished with insiders´ recommendations. You can book your hotel for the 2016 Carnival in Rio de Janeiro and listen to the Rio Carnival samba songs...more info: 2015 Hollywood Carnival Highlights - California
Although Carnival (Carnaval in Portuguese) is celebrated in towns and villages throughout Brazil and other Catholic countries, Rio de Janeiro has long been regarded as the Carnival capital of the world. The Rio Carnaval is not only the biggest Carnival, it is also a benchmark against which every other carnival is compared and one of the most interesting artistic events on the globe. Almost everyone has heard of Rio Carnaval. Foreign visitors to it alone number around 500,000 every year...read more: 2015 Hollywood Carnival Highlights - California
It officially starts on Friday and finishes on Fat Tuesday with the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday after which one is supposed to abstain from all bodily pleasures. Carnival with all its excesses, celebrated as a profane event, could be interpreted an act of farewell to the pleasures of the flesh. It is usually in February, the hottest month in the Southern Hemisphere, when summer in Rio is at its peak.
There are carnival celebrations on virtually every corner of Brazil, the best-known ones taking place in Recife together with the neighboring Olinda (in the Northeast of Brazil) and Salvador. But the biggest and most famous carnival is undoubtedly Carnival in Rio de Janeiro... read more: 2015 Hollywood Carnival Highlights - California
