Quando Carnaval 2021?
While Carnaval is celebrated globally (and all across Brazil), arguably no-one does it better than the city of Rio de Janeiro. The four-day celebration is considered an official holiday — and pre-pandemic, up to 2 million revelers would gather in the city streets to enjoy music, dancing, or of course, the show-stopping costumes and elaborate parade floats. Some even tease that the year doesn’t officially start until Carnaval does.
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Besides the beauty of these parades, they are also usually cultural representations. These escolas often use costumes, big floats, and original samba songs, to explore history and even offer social critiques of various subjects such as politics, social inequality, or even the environment.
Carnival celebrates the period leading up to Lent, ending on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. The official dates of Carnival vary from year to year, like Easter.
Here you won’t find the large parades, just miles, and miles of street parties. They say that in Rio, you watch the parades; in Salvador, you are the parade.
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It’s not just the party atmosphere that brings people together during Carnaval—the eagerness for Carnaval to return and evolve comes out of more than the chance it offers to celebrate.
Festas e eventos comemorativos de Carnaval, públicos ou privados, também estão suspensos em Fortaleza. O governador Camilo Santana (PT) cancelou o ponto facultativo na segunda e terça de Carnaval em todo o Ceará.
In both cities, outstanding parades are held in Sambadromes, which are essentially entire arenas built especially for these massive parades. For four nights, various samba schools perform with well-decorated floats and thousands of dancers wearing elaborate costumes. These are accompanied by musicians playing lively drum sections. And they happen all night long.
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No Rio de Janeiro, a prefeitura cancelou o ponto facultativo.
Desde meados de 2020, com a vacinação ainda distante e uma primeira onda já intensa da pandemia do novo coronavírus, o Brasil se preparava para a suspensão do Carnaval de 2021.
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In the Northern states, like Amazonas, a traditional celebration called Carnaboi mixes elements from Carnival and indigenous folk traditions. Groups such as the bois-bumbá Caprichoso and Garantido create interactive plays and performances based on folklore and legends. They tell stories through dance and music, creating a mystical and vibrant ambiance.
Most feel, though, that this year’s Carnaval, the first full-scale celebration since 2020 and the first in four years without murmurings of a looming global pandemic, has marked a return to normal. That the sell-out camarotes (VIP boxes that offer touching-distance views of the Sambadrome parade, the climax of the weekend’s celebrations), the outfits, the raucous blocos shutting down streets across the city, and the black-tie balls shook off the dust of those uncharacteristically subdued seasons past and took things back to how they once were.
A decisão foi justificada pelo governador João Doria como recomendação do Centro de Contingência do Coronavírus.
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Both cities have a world-class Carnival and are known for having perhaps a little less emphasis on the massive samba schools and more on the street carnival aspect. Both feature endless live music and are a little more friendly and warm than both Rio and São Paulo.
That’s right: in Curitiba, during Carnival Sunday, it has become a tradition for tens of thousands of people to dress as zombies and party around the city. This includes entire families and their pets.
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You’ll see it when you visit: during this time, the beaches are usually packed, and so are the bars. Some stores just don’t open or only have reduced hours. The entire country seems to slow down, getting ready for the magic moment about to come.
Nas redes sociais, Paes disse que "não fazia sentido" imaginar que a cidade teria condições para realizar o Carnaval em julho.