The greatest spectacle of the World!!!!

A wonderful experience, full of colors, music and happiness. Brazil is a massive country and there is carnival in every city, in different formats and forms. There is street Carnival everywhere, and the population follow the speaker cars dancing the rhythm of Axé, Samba and more recently, even funk music.

This post, though, is dedicated to the Rio Carnival. To the schools of Samba, to the Mulatas  / the Brazilian Samba dancers…

Rio has got an avenue where the school of Samba parades, it is called Sambodromo, by the Brazilians. It was designed by the renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer. It is an official competition, with jury giving notes in different categories. The School of sambas are like  sport clubs or even fraternities, as in the US,  which compete one against the other for the Championship title. They spend the year preparing for the 80…