Carnival Fortaleza (Ceará)

The Carnival of Fortaleza is well diversified and has a specific point for celebration. There are several points of the city, scattering the people according to tastes and locations. Some enjoy the holidays to relax on the beaches or clubs.

The festivities start early in February with pre-carnival on the weekends. The "warming"is made with street carnivals, where bands and groups play in several streets to the sounds of many Northeastern rhythms and samba.

Carnival Salvador

The carnival in Salvador is the most popular manifestation of the world, breaking records with nearly 2.7 million revelers in six-day festival, which celebrates three main circuits: Dodo (Barra-Ondina), Osmar (Campo Grande Avenue, Seven) and Potato (Historical Center).

Carnival of Recife (Olinda)

The carnival is a carnival of Recife multifaceted, with different forms of street carnival, parades of carnival groups (with the presence of traditional dolls and Olinda) and performances of singers and musical groups on specific hustings.
The Reef has the largest carnival in the world, the Galo da Madrugada, which is presented on Saturday of Carnival, or Saturday Zé Pereira.

Carnival in Sao Paulo

The Carnival of São Paulo is a traditional celebration carnival held every year in Sao Paulo. The parade of samba schools in Sao Paulo is the Anhembi Sambadrome, designed by renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer, who also designed the Sambadrome of the sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro. The Special Group parade of samba schools of São Paulo happens on Friday and Saturday of carnival week.

Participants of the Special Group 2011

Nenê de Vila Matilde Águia de Ouro Mocidade Alegre Unidos de Vila Maria X-9 Paulistana Gaviões da Fiel Império de Casa Verde Unidos do Peruche Tom Maior Acadêmicos do Tucuruvi Rosas de Ouro Mancha Verde Vai-Vai Pérola Negra

Rio de Janeiro Carnival 2011

Samba Schools

In late 1920, Brazil sought to create an identity that differentiate it within the new world order established after the First World War. The carnival party and the new base rate of newly emerged black, samba, would become the basis for formulating a sense of Brazilianness. The appreciation of the samba and the blackness eventually increasing the interest of intellectuals in the new "samba groups" which appeared in the hills of Rio. These groups would be present "in the asphalt, "ie, away from the ghettos of the hills, called samba schools.