Yes, it was a surprise. Whoever watched the parade on the first day was certainly touched by the remarkable performance, which we considered the main highlight of the spectacle here at Carnival Rio. Their theme, “secrets”, featured lots of beautiful cars and costumes, like Mafia boys, Michael Jackson, heroes and others. A performance that made Unidos da Tijuca one of the main contenders, one that made the public love them. A deserved title for an outlier.

Watch the champions performance below!

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Unidos da Tijuca are Rio Carnival 2010 champions

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If you are mexican, Viradouro has also paid a homage to you. Diego Rivera performed in this parade dedicated to the mexican people. Other highlights are Beija Flor – who told the story of Brasilia, the 1960-founded capital city of Brazil, a grandiouse, monumental planned town that today is home to more than 2 million people – and Salgueiro, the current champion, who had books in general as the main theme.

Highlights in portuguese in the video below. You can see more videos, pics and a special report on Rio Carnival here. Click here for a Google translation to english.

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Videos and pictures of Rio Carnival 2010 parade

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The auction offered a total of 4079 tickets for grandstand seats or special individual.

If the owners of the tickets did not pay, the tickets will be offered for sale again.

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No more tickets to the Carnival Rio de Janeiro (RJ) 2010

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And don’t count on last time deal cheap flights. Rio are expecting a record attendance this season, so people are unlikely to quit their tickets.

Rio Carnival will be on February 14th this year (Rio Samba Parade will be on 14th-15th Feb), but you must arrive earlier and depart later if you want to enjoy the city and avoid the most busy times on airports (many brazilian do short time trips, so airports are near their maximum capacity around this date).If you stay for two weeks, by arriving on Feb 7th and departing on Feb 21st, you’ll have a lot of fun without much hassle.

A good place to find flights to Rio is Travelocity website. Travelocity has prices on hotels too but you better double check it. While there are cheap hotels in Macae, you’re strongly advised to find a hotel in Southern Side (Zona Sul) in Rio de Janeiro city, where everything happens in carnival. Macae is almost 120 miles away, so be careful.

You’re likely to find, as of now, flights from £ 530.00 (TAM, departing from London. Check link above) and hotels from around £2,300.00.

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Flights to Rio Carnival 2010 – book your flight now

ILSS (Independent League of Samba Schools) clarified that it would not set a timetable for the sale of tickets for the Special Group. However, you can request reservations for cabins by fax 55 (21) 3213-5152 from October/2009, as in previous years the month of October was adopted for this procedure.

To book friezes, we use the fax service only in that November/2009. Special chairs and bleachers will be reserved for individual Internet between December/2009 and January/2010. Tickets for the stands only (are?) On sale a week before the official Carnival parades.

Much attention! Even on the Internet there are many people offering advance tickets for the Great Feast. Check the reputation of who is selling not to have their joy turned into sorrow or buy directly with LIESA.

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Ticket Sales for the Rio Carnival 2010 – tips to avoid being deceived

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Sunday 02/14/2010

• 21 h – Union Island;
• 22:05 to 22:22 – Empress Leopoldinense;
• 23:10 to 23:44 – Unidos da Tijuca;
• 00h15 to 01h06 – Viradouro;
• 01h20 to 02h28 – Salgueiro;
• 02h25 to 03h50 – Beija-Flor.

Monday 02/15/2010

• 21 am – Youth Independent;
• 22:05 to 22:22 – Porto da Pedra;
• 23:10 to 23:44 – Portela;
• 00h15 to 01h06 – Vila Isabel;
• 01h20 to 02h28 – Rio Grande;
• 02h25 to 03h50 – Mangueira.

Here is the schedule and that, barring unforeseen events during the parades of Schools, will be followed during the carnival of 2010.

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Schedule of the parades of Carnival 2010 Rio de Janeiro – Special Group

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The proposal is to double that in addition to a work of quality poetry and melodic, the composers pressed by emotion at the time of creation of the school hymn sing on Avenue in 2010.

During the meeting, the direction of carnival consisting of Saul Tinoco, Rildo Seixas Ferreira and Kiko will announce the timetable for the dispute of samba-plot, and the rules of the dispute.

The Viradouro will be the fourth school to nop Sambadrome parade Sunday in Rio Carnival.

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Viradouro composers talk about the plot for Carnival Rio 2010

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Mangueirenses of Brazil and the world sent their works. Composers of Germany and Portugal and release the creativity spawned his love of school. Compositions of São Paulo, Pará, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul also reached the First Station.

The sambas that will be known to the court on Saturday, when President Ivo Meirelles will announce the compositions that are proposed in the plot.

The school innovated to withdraw the fees that were charged for registration of the composers works and interpreters available to composers from outside of Rio de Janeiro and who are not able to bear the cost. According to the school, this is one of the reasons that led to triple the number of works entered.

The start of the heats of the Mangueira samba begins on the first Saturday in August (01/08) to 20 hours in the Palace of the Samba. The final date has also been marked and happen on October 17 also on a Saturday.

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The Shrovetide came to Brazil around the seventeenth century and was influenced by the carnival celebrations that happen in Europe. In countries like Italy and France, occurred in the carnival parades of urban forms, where the carnival masks and costumes used. Celebrities such as Colombina, the King Momo pierre and were also incorporated into the Brazilian carnival, but are of European origin.

In Brazil, the end of the nineteenth century, began to appear the first carnival blocks, strings and the famous “Corsican.” They have become more popular in the beginning of XX centuries. People disguise, decorated their cars and in groups, parade through the streets of cities. Ai is the origin of floats, typical of the samba schools of today.

In the twentieth century, the carnival has been growing and becoming increasingly a popular party. This growth occurred with the help of marchinhas carnival. The songs leave the carnival increasingly animated.

The first came on the samba school of Rio de Janeiro and was called Lets Talk. Was created by carioca Snowbunny called Ismael Silva. Years later the Talk It has become the school of samba Estácio de Sá. From then on the street carnival begins to gain a new format. Beginning to emerge new schools of samba in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Organized into leagues of Schools of Samba, the first league start to see what the samba school was more beautiful and lively.

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Carnival History in Brazil – what is the origin of the Carnival?

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Every year during the Carnival, the city of Rio de Janeiro breathe for five days an enviable air of joy. Cariocas forget the problems and obligations and yield to the gigantic spectacle of dance and magic. The peak of the festival is the parade of the panel in the Marquis of Sapucaí where various Samba schools compete among themselves the title of Carnival champion. Samba, vivid colors, beautiful costumes and beautiful women are the main ingredients of this great dispute. 

The date of the Carnival varies from year to year depending on Easter. Usually the revelry occurs between the end of February and first days of March. The official start of carnival is always on a Saturday and end at noon on the Wednesday following, called “Ash Wednesday”. However many people have already started the celebrations on Friday. It is much in Brazil that year formally begins only after the Carnival. 

During most of the nineties, was reduced to the carnival parades of samba schools and the great dances in clubs closed. The famous and traditional “street carnival”, where people spontaneously playing without paying entry, dropped out. In recent years, however, this form of celebration is being recovered. 

The Carnival has several possible sources that lead to thousands of years before Christ. The word carnival may have its origin in the Latin expression “carrum Novalis’ used by the Romans to open their celebrations. Or perhaps the word “carnelevale” which means “farewell to meat” in Milanese dialect, a reference to the beginning of Christian Lent. 
  
Unlike the carnival that existed elsewhere in Europe (and now disappeared), the carnival was held in Portugal’s play dirty with all possible people, especially food. This was the carnival led to their colony, including Brazil. 

In the middle of the nineteenth century began to emerge dances, strip clubs and large carnival, not only for parties met. At the beginning of the twentieth century, beginning to realize that fashion with blocks, little by little, were gaining size giving rise to the samba schools that exist today and form the Rio carnival. 

Founded in the neighborhood of Estácio in 1928, the Let Talk was the first one. In 1932 was the first non-official parade in 1935 and was the first official parade in the square Eleven June. A Praça Onze was destroyed and the place of the parade was changed several times. In 1984, however, was built to Passarela Samba, local parades for the final. More known as Sambadrome, the site was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is length of 700 meters, 85 square meters and capacity for 600 thousand people, divided into several sectors. 

For over 30 years, the parade of schools was carried out spontaneously. Only in 1963 began to sell seats for the public. Today, the Rio Carnival is one of the largest pride of Rio de Janeiro and is responsible for large investments. Are tickets, advertising, CDs, television rights, etc.. The moon of the title of Carnival champion is much disputed and involves high costs and great need for labor, creating jobs for the communities of each school of samba. Portela, Salgueiro, Mangueira, Império Serrano, Beija-Flor and Imperatriz Leopoldinense are among the most traditional schools, who work the entire year for Carnival.

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Hi everybody! How are you today?!

Certainly the next edition of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - Carnival Rio 2010 - will be the best edition in the last 50 years.

Take a look to some pictures of Carnival Rio 2009.

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