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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

2015 Rio Carnival February 13 to 17, 2015

 An American theme is presented in this float from Mocidade samba school, the third school to delight thousands on Sunday
The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a world famous festival held before Lent every year and considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets. The first festivals of Rio date back to 1723
There was also a more serious note to the proceedings last night, with a call for more racial integration in the South American country
Mangueira, second up on Sunday on the first of two nights of shows for the top-rated samba schools  
Vila Isabel perform as part of the five-day-long official Carnival celebrations, which also include some 450 alcohol-soaked street parties

The typical Rio carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats and adornments from numerous samba schools  which are located in Rio (more than 200 approximately, divided into 5 leagues/ divisions)
Young revellers from Beija-Flor samba school proved they had just as much rhythm as their older counterparts with their own parade

A Samba School is composed of a collaboration of local neighbours that want to attend carnival together, with some kind of regional, geographical common background.
Tens of thousands of people gathered on both sides of the imposing venue to watch and sing along to Rio's famous Samba schools

The Carnival begins on Friday and ends on Ash Wednesday. But the Winners' Parade happens on the Saturday after the carnival ends
The Vila Isabel samba school perform during the spectacular Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome on Sunday
Members of the samba group Uniao da Ilha created a spectacular collage of colourful flowers and butterflies with their costumes 
The many shades of Mangueira samba school, who are the oldest of the competing Rio samba schools
Members of the samba group Uniao da Ilha perform on the second day of the most important parades and the closing day of the festival 
Revellers from Mangueira, Rio's most popular samba school which won the very first parade to be held in the Sambadrome  
More colour from the Manguiera as music blared on the fourth of five days of parade competitions in the unique stadium
Model Juliana Paesthe from Viradouro samba school sparkles during their performance as one of Rio's top-ranked groups 
Elaborate costumes encrusted with hundres of sequins are par for the course during Carnvial... not to mention copious amounts of flesh
A lavish feather-winged costume is sported by this dancer from the Salgueiro samba school in the annual carnival parade in Rio
A number of Samba schools decided to celebrate the country's African heritage on the final night of Rio's world-famous Carnival
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