Brazil is a country of festivals! Whether it’s a celebration, cuisine, culture or fancy dress for street fun, Brazilians are docks in terms of how to have a party! Indeed, festivals in Brazil are held all year round, and are known throughout the world. It would be logical to assume that the carnival is the exclusive domain of Rio de Janeiro. But the thing is that this is not so! The whole country participates in the carnival. Both homeless people and dogs in the streets walk in carnival costumes.
Brazilian Carnival
Carnaval do Brasil is a world-famous tour of Brazilian popular culture. This is an annual festival held in many cities in Brazil 40 days before Easter. A carnival is not just a colorful procession with dances and drums, it is also the Indian festival of colors Holi, and a gay parade, and the Bavarian Oktoberfest, and the festival of cowboys, and the carnival of the Amazonian Indians.
The carnival is so important for Brazilians 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. In January and February, nothing special happens. For Brazilians, 2019 will begin after the carnival!
Carnival. Rio de Janeiro
The most famous festival in Brazil is the Rio de Janeiro Carnival, which is held annually before fasting 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 events. To make the celebration more fun, men put on women's clothing, and women put on a set of sequins and feathers. Here at the festival in Brazil (photo below) you can drop everyday worries and problems and run away into the fantasy world for a few days, enjoy samba.
Carnival processions begin during Easter, from Friday to Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday. Huge parades are a demonstration of complex costumes, a procession of drummers and dancers through the streets of the city. Each year, the parades become livelier thanks to the samba school at a festival in Brazil.
Since 1984, when Sambodrom was built, presentations of different schools of vibrant dance are held. The continuous party is filled with vibrant colors, samba music and sophisticated costumes. Countless musical genres, including samba and marakuta, accompany the holiday. On the streets during the carnival are required: ordinary food, drink and fun!
Tourists who have come to the carnival are invited to join in the fun: free open-air concerts and masked balls are held throughout the city. With Samba as a soundtrack and caipirinhasas in your hand (made from lime juice, sugar, ice and porridge) you can not help but feel the spirit of the party!
Festa do peao
Impressive, gathering a large number of tourists and locals, this is Festa do Peão, which means “Cowboy Festival” in English and has been a popular Brazilian festival for 64 years. Festivals held nationwide in places such as Maraba, Uberaba and Barretos typically include a series of rodeo bulls and horses accompanied by country music.
By far, the largest and most famous cowboy festival - Festa do Peao is held in the state of Barretos in Sao Paulo. Its time is from August 18 to 28. It coincides with the anniversary of the first registered festival in 1955. Held in a huge park with a stadium large enough to accommodate 35,000 spectators. The highlight of the festival is considered a rodeo show.
Oktoberfest
One of the largest holidays in German culture, Oktoberfest, turns the Brazilian city of Blumenau into a small copy of Munich. Once upon a time, it was a German colony founded in 1850. Brazilian Germans, mostly descendants of the colonists, preserve their cultural heritage. Currently, over a million tourists flock to the center of Santa Catarina to enjoy German and Brazilian cuisine, music and culture. 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 reach Blumenau by public transport. If you happen to be in Blumenau at this time, put on the brightest costumes, take hats for a party and join groups of revelers at one of the most exciting events.
Yemanji celebration
Celebrating Yemanja, a tribute is paid to the goddess of the sea. This wonderful event takes place in El Salvador, a city also called the "capital of happiness" of Brazil. The festival is held in early February of each year, local residents throw gifts into the sea, whether it be flowers, perfumes or jewelry!
The goddess of salt water, Yemanju, is always represented by women in blue flowing robes with long hair. Millions of people celebrate Yemanya on February 2, or the Catholic holiday of Our Lady of the Sailors. But in the Rio festival in Brazil, in honor of Yemange, takes place on the days before the New Year, when practitioners of Umbanda and Candomblé honor this goddess.
The biggest holiday is along Praia Vermella, culminating in a gala evening on the beach with music, parties and food. Arriving in Salvador before the start of the holiday, you can see the most important religious ceremony in the city: in late January, hundreds of women in traditional costumes come to wash the steps of the Bonfim church.
Cirio de Nazare
On the second Sunday of October of each year, one of Brazil's greatest religious holidays is held along the Amazon River, in the beautiful city of Para Belem. Known as Cirio de Nazare, this Brazilian festival revolves around the statue of Our Lady of Nazareth, which is believed to have performed miracles when it was found and brought home by a farmer named Placido José de Souza.
They say that the statue, after it is brought to Belem, will return to its house in Ikorarasi at will. Today, the statue does not travel by itself: it is transferred from Catedral da Ce to the Icoarachi Basilica, it is accompanied by hundreds of colorful boats filled with singing dancing crowds.
Festival of body art
Every year, on January 16th, a tattoo festival takes place in Brazil. Masters from all over the world come here. In a week during the festival, the masters presented in 2019 more than 200 stands with samples of various tattoos.
This is one of the main goals of Tattoo Week Rio: to foster a cultural exchange between artists and the public. Usually, the venue of the event includes a reserved area for workshops, 2,000 parking spaces, a food area, a playground, a tattoo theater, exhibitions and many other attractions. The festival hosts numerous competitions, including the most spectacular Miss Tatu.
Indian festival in Brazil
When it comes to this country, the first thing that comes to mind is a carnival, because this is the main event. In Brazil, several carnivals take place throughout the year. Recently, another one has become known - May Fight Bumba. It takes place on the Amazon, like a samba battle in Rio. The time of the Boy May Bumba Carnival: end of June - second week of August.
May Fight Bumba takes place on a sumbodrome-based bumbadrome. Of course, the carnivals in Rio and Parintins are incomparable in scale. The history of the Fight May Bumba festival is related to the culture and history of the Amazon Indians and a certain style of Brazilian music. Simple and beautiful.
Fireworks of passions raging at the carnivals of Brazil, burns complexes and negative participants in parades and processions. Where, if not on a holiday in Rio, get a tremendous boost of energy and fun.