WHAT IS CARNIVAL?
It is a exuberante celebration of the sexual
sins, as its name in Latin suggests it
(carna=carne(meat) – vale=in abundance).
This event happens from a rule of the Italian
Churchwhere it turned 40 days of abstention
before the Páscuas. As it is the most natural
thing to do
when you know that you will be very hungry? That
same one! preparate to the Carnival that begins
in Florence, Italy that quickly was adopted by
the Portuguese who lived back in hundredth Brazil
of years.
The Florenciana celebration that surrounds masks
not to lose the good reputation of the members of
the celebration. Leather costumes influenced by
native of the country and the drums influenced by
the African slaves. Mixture all that, and don´t
stop , and you get a tradition of 200 years that
surrounds all those essences by 5 days before
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In spite of the name, they are not
really schools, but if an enormous group of
musicians, designers of costumes, dancers and
trenadores that invest up to 11 months of the
year preparing the show which they are going to
show its schools during the next championship of
schools of samba.
They choose a subject in which they are going to
work in April, they begin to develop the ideas of
the parade in May,
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begin to choose music in August and
begin to prepare canival costumes in September.
They work until the end of January and
present/display their parades in sambódromo
during the week ends of Carnival, in their hopes
to reach to the fourth place of a category of 10.
The categories surround better music, improves
drums, better disfrazes, better floats, better
dance, better melodía, etc. similar to the
Oscars.
SEE CARNIVAL BRAZIL PHOTOS
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