This year, Brazil's federal government expects 46 million people to join the festivities that officially begin Friday and run through Feb. 22.
That includes visitors to cities that make Carnival a world-famous bash, especially Rio but also Salvador, Recife and metropolitan Sao Paulo, which has recently emerged as a hotspot."We’ve waited for so long, we deserve this catharsis," Thiago Varella, a 38-year-old engineer wearing a Hawaiian shirt drenched by the rain, said at a bash in Sao Paulo on Feb. 10.
The premier spectacle is at the Sambadrome. Top samba schools, which are based in Rio’s more working-class neighborhoods, spend millions on hour-long parades with elaborate floats and costumes, said Jorge Perlingeiro, president of Rio’s league of samba schools. Revelers take part in a street carnival parade of the"Loucura Suburbana" block at the Engenho de Dentro neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 16, 2023. The first lady’s attendance signals a shift from the administration of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who kept his distance from the nation's marquee cultural event.
"There were so many people in Rio’s city center for Carnival that the whole region ran out of water within hours," said Butter.
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