IRON MAIDEN mascot Eddie last week attended Carnival, a world-famous festival held in Rio De Janeiro before Lent every year and considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets.
Although Carnival (Carnaval in Portuguese)
is celebrated in towns and villages throughout Brazil and other Catholic
countries, Rio de Janeiro has long been regarded as the Carnival
Capital of the World. The Rio Carnaval is not only the biggest Carnival,
it has also a benchmark against which every other carnival is compared
and one of the most interesting artistic events on the Globe.
Rio
Carnival is a wild four-day celebration, 40 days before Easter. It
officially starts on Saturday and finishes on Fat Tuesday with the
beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday after which one is supposed to
abstain from all bodily pleasures. Carnival with all its excesses,
celebrated as a profane event, can be considered an act of farewell to
the pleasures of the flesh. It usually happens in February, the hottest
month in the Southern Hemisphere, when the Rio summer is at its peak.
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