CARNIVAL IN BRAZIL

Nowadays we make any excuse to celebrate popular festivities. Each country has an important celebration that represents it, like in USA the most important festivity is Halloween or in Spain San Fermín party. The next event will be carnival that is the most famous holiday in Brazil and has become an affair of huge proportions, and now we are going to talk about it.

Carnival in Brazil began when the catholic Spanish and Portuguese arrived in Brazil, they introduced Catholicism. Over time the cultures mixed changing absolutely the thematic of carnival because before it was religious and now it’s only a traditional festivity that we celebrate to have a good time.

In our time carnival in Brazil has a worldwide recognition and it’s celebrated with catwalks, carriages and extravagant costumes. All this goes together with music and traditional dances like samba.  

The main cities where carnival is more important are Sao Paolo and Río de Janeiro.